Daily Dex - Zangoose, Infernape, Cradily, and Smeargle
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop
Hey we're back!
My favorite pen that I use for line art finally died during last Thursday's drawing o7 o7 o7 - so starting with Friday's we're moving from the .005mm to a .03mm - it's noticeably thicker but I think works for the pokemon art style. I might end up buying another .005mm, who knows.
Anyway, let's dig in:
Fri 05/29/2026 - Zangoose
There's something admirable about a cool design that's a normal type. I'm usually down on normal types but I think Zangoose has it (though I do find it weird that the card game's art sometimes has it depicted as a quadruped).
Sat 05/30/2026 - Infernape
Ok so this is gonna sound stupid as hell BUT I didn't play Diamond and Pearl (or their remakes) so I didn't know this one in advance; as I was drawing I thought "this is definitely a starter's final evolution".
Not groundbreaking, not thinking of myself as some kind of genius or anything but I did like that my reads of the franchise's patterns are solidifying purely based on this project.
Infernape is fine. Fire fighting monkey, sure. Right on. It's no Monkey King but what is, really?
Sun 05/31/2026 - Cradily
Speaking of my reads on the franchise's design patterns; man. MAN.
This is a carnivorous plant with penises as medusa hair.
Like, what the fuck were they thinking? I'm half tempted to see if the official art of this would get flagged by Bluesky's oversensitive porn filters lmfao
Mon 06/01/2026 - Smeargle
I rolled 235 for today and didn't really think much about it after getting the initial drawing done before I had to do some work stuff - but right before I got ready to post, I learned about the Decorator variant from Pokopia? That's covered in rainbow colors? That would have been a perfect 'welcome to pride month motherfuckers' entry??
Can't win em all. Just imagine I did the spectacularly gay one instead.
Anyway happy pride month. Remember that love is love, no cops at pride, trans rights forever, and rainbow capitalism is not worth the scraps.