Most of the time when people redesign Dragonite, they use Dratini and Dragonair as the starting point, and maybe even make a Dragonite with no limbs. We wanted to do the opposite: redesign them all with limbs.
We took inspiration from bats, added feathers, and used elements from all three to give the line cohesiveness. For example, in how Dragini's winglike ears return for Dragonite and are reflected in its actual wings, or how Dragonair's feathery ears match its fluffy collar, and that gets reflected in Dragonite's collar and tail.
I absolutely LOVE the Squirtle/Wartortle illustrations by kantaro in Pokemon 151!
The Squirtle jumping so joyfully from the rock into the ocean, the colors are STUNNING! I love the contrast of the Squirtle's aqua blue framed in the vivid orange sky, the soft bit of blue reflecting in its shell and its tail just catching the sun, how little and squishy its body looks as it launches itself towards the water with such tremendous excitement!
The lineless style of the background gives me the feel of a travel poster and I sense the tropical environment around it from the rocks and trees framing the corners, the waterfall splashing with as much energy as the Squirtle!
The layered blues on the surface of the water and the bubbles rising at the corner make me FEEL the liquid rising to meet the Squirtle--I can just feel how the next moment it's going to break through and be immersed in a cool island swim!
And the Wartortle running along the sunset beach, this is somehow everything I always imagined for Wartortle! I adore the way the rich purple melts into the warm red/orange sky, the matching purple clouds and shadows in the foreground, and how the dimming sunlight glows red on Wartortle's deep blues!
I love how the yellow and orange of the sky illuminate the lapping waves, I can just feel the gentle motion of the sea at dusk. The aqua color of the ocean matches Wartortle's ears and tail and sets off the red-orange sand, I just love how the colors are here!
Wartortle looks so round and squishy, I love its happiness as it goes frolicking through the shallows, chasing the bubbles caught in the setting sun! The shine and deep shadow on its shell give it an almost jewel texture like real tortoise shell; I love the silhouetted splash Wartortle leaves as it goes running across the shore. It's so full of energy and delight at the end of a gorgeous day!
The colors in these are SO vivid and harmonized and the style is so cute and bursting with energy and joy. I just LOVE it (also Squirtle is my starter)
Searching for pokemon pyjamas from places that aren't the pokemon center suck bc everything is gen 1. That was so long ago, can they please let it go 😭
Flag ID: a flag with 5 wobbly shapes. The smallest one is in the top right and they get get progressively larger and overlap to the bottom left. The top right is pale orange, next is dull pink and gradients down to dark purple. The background is dark indigo. End ID.
✧ Dreamusiquoteic is a gender related to the quote: "every night you hear the most beautiful music in your dreams.." from mag 151, Big Picture, from the podcast, The Magnus Archives.
ID: a white DNI with a panel of the manga Oyasumi Punpun with 5 kids doing a joint pose. Words are black on the right side: “DNI: anti- ‘contradictory’ labels, anti-mogai, terf, gatekeeper, anti-decolonization, believes ‘narc abuze’ is real, demonizes ‘scary/evil’ disorders + labels.” End ID.
The main thing we felt was necessary to update these designs was to give them more colours, and more details in Mewtwo's case. When comparing to modern Legendary and Mythical Pokémon, Mewtwo and Mew are not bad, just incredibly plain.
We made one addition to the Mew design that felt very fitting to its concept: a caul. A caul or en-caul birth is when a baby is born with a piece of the amnionic sac over its head, or sometimes still completely inside it. This very rare occurrence is associated with good luck and even with supernatural powers in many cultures.
Hence, the caul emphasizes Mew's theme of birth and the Psychic type's supernatural side. It also looks like a space helmet, so it also plays into the Psychic type's space side and the panspermia theory of the origin of life (both on Earth and in the Pokémon world!).
Mew's twisting tails represent the DNA double helix and the mark on its forehead represents a chromosome.
For Mewtwo, we took some inspiration from Mega Mewtwo Y and Deoxys. The tube-like second spine has been extended to connect the top of the head, through the chest and the belly, all the way to the double tails. It was also made to look more skinny and pallid to emphasize that it is a lab-grown experiment. The unspooled helix of the tails is meant to represent gene editing.