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DAY 36: CLEFABLE

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guess whos johtrio rent was due. hint. it was me. it was mine. it has almost been a full like year since i have drawn them . i started sketching this in like feb. never got around to coloring and rendering. sorry johtrio fans. back to my hs au that i have constructed in my head and never put into reality.........

i think they all go home super late and have to wait for the bus together. or u can interpret it as them waking up for school early but i dont think gold would do that unless someone physically dragged him up for that. no one gaf enough to do that LMFAOOO silver and crys share earbuds bc they r BFFs yeah i asked them myself. also gold moves around too much for a comfortable earbud sharing experience itd constantly be falling out.

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taillow and razz berries

// full illustration for @pokepocketzine, a tiny pokémon fanzine

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twitter didnt appreciate this one

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Irida roller derby au :)

I ended up reworking and relining the sketch I posted the other day. When I went to colour it I realised that she looked a bit too much like May with the way I’d tried to stylize her hair, so I figured I’d just redo it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Lines are much cleaner in this version anyways. Original sketch under the cut

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Sylveon sends love your way! 💗

Available as print! ✨

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pkmn SV / オモテ祭り

３人でお祭り行くの最高に楽しかった…

今、このイラストでポストカードを作っています。２月に通販の受付を開始し、３月に発送予定です。他にもシールやキーホルダー等も作っているので、お楽しみに！

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when your crush acknowledges your existence 😍😍😍

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I will forever be obsessed with the photo of these two performing together at the festival. I’m sure Adaman would absolutely hate it, but I love the idea of these two becoming friends, bonding over their mutual love of music ^^

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every gym leader is like “I lost!?! UNBELIEVABLE!” buddy you live in a world where every ten year old child has always been offered a free fire breathing monster at least once and you brought nothing to this fight but anthropomorphic flowers

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A little treat!

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Adaman the Symbol of Time

(An Analysis on the character design of Adaman from Pokemon Legends of Arceus and it’s relation to time and art history.)

A lot of the characters form PLA are similar in terms of design. The characters that do not follow the standard hoodies, tunics, guild jumpsuits ,and kimonos have a lot of interesting art history associated with them.  I love Adaman’s design in particular since he is literally a symbol of time. 

Well…isn’t this obvious since he is the Diamond Clan leader and associated with Dialga? Yes, but there is a lot more subtle aspects to his design that link him with a specific form or Japanese Art.  But let’s first look at the obvious references to Dialga .

In Adaman’s design they use a lot of blues and and silver that you can see shared with Dialga.  They also use the Diamond clan symbol that is shaped to look like Dialga’s chest gem repeatedly in the coat and accessories.  Adaman’s coat/jacket is most likely a nod to the Japanese Haori.  It is even tied with a fancy beaded Himo chord to keep it closed. If you look at the shoes you can see in the concept art that even the bottom of them are supposed to look like Dialga’s feet in their regular form and on the top of the shoe like the legendary Pokemon’s face.  All this information is very interesting and nice seeing how the character and the Pokemon are related even thematically.  

However, it’s crossed your mind (even briefly) that Adaman’s design is not directly one to one with Dialga. He isn’t a Dialga gijinka. There are elements and colors that Adaman uses that the legendary Pokemon does not.  We can brush it off as Adaman having a flair and his importance as a Diamond Clan leader to set him apart. But this is where it gets interesting. His outfit is generally just fashionable and we can choose to look at it like that on a surface level.  But if you look deeper you see a more symbolic meaning.

Adaman is Kintsugi . What is that? Kintsugi is a Japanese art technique that repairs pottery using lacquer and gold dust.  Adaman also has similar gold veins running through his clothing.  For someone who is so “put together” looking, why would you intentionally create jagged and uneven elements other than for aesthetic? This is because for my understanding, this is yet another way the character designer chose to express Adaman’s connection to time.

Kintsugi is a beautiful form of art and philosophy.  The idea is not to hide the cracks and flaws, but to turn it into something more beautiful and strong.  It represents the passage of time and a documentation of the harsh conditions in which we pass through. But ultimately it is a celebration of survival and growth.  It is also a metaphor for embracing your flaws and imperfections.

One translation defines the word  kintsugi as golden “golden seams”. So, Adaman is kind of a symbol of kintsugi pottery and philosophy.  The part about this design that confused me the most was his hair since it’s also not standard colored and is quite unique. But I realized that if we are equating him to pottery, the hair might be colored that way to imitate pottery glazes (the stuff they put on ceramics to give it color.)

On another interesting note, Adaman has lots of signs of past injury. We see this with the bandages on his arms and hands, the cut brow which is a remnant of injury and survival, and then the very intentional jagged gold claw marks on his back.  The back gold lines are sharp looking and contrast with the rest of the designs which is fluid and rounded.  It’s bringing attention to the marks.

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We can interpret a lot from this design. It also raises many questions. The jagged golden marks and Adaman’s bandaged arms implies that he has been “damaged” or “broken” in some sense. This could be taken literally or symbolically. We don’t know what happened to him.  Maybe he was attacked by an alpha Pokemon and survived a severe injury that he now incorporates into this aesthetic as a way to show that he was able to come back from that.  Or maybe it’s referring to his leadership as a young Diamond Clan leader and the mistakes he made and had to learn from. 

So in conclusion. From what I can understand , if we were to wrap up all the motifs, Adaman’s design ultimately seems to just represent a passage of time. Breakage and repair are just proof of time passing and represent history and life. And I think that is really cool.  

These are all my speculations and none of it is canon you can disagree if you want. These are just things I have observed and made note of that I believe makes the character far more interesting and fleshed out.  There is a lot of deep and meaningful things you can pull from this if you want to expound further through fanart and fanfic.  

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Pokémon Human Character Tournament: Spin-off Poll 7 - Green Incarnations

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Pokémon Human Character Tournament: Round 2, Matchup 29

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So I have this headcanon about Larry...

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Southern Islands (Tropical) – Naoyo Kimura

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Ancient Dawn, ancient Dawn, ancient dawn...!!