I assume you mean designing new Pokemon, not drawing existing ones, right? Interesting idea. The Pokemon themselves have a unique art style within anime – especially the original group of 150-ish Pokemon – but I can’t say I’ve tried drawing in that style too much. Well, here goes:

I present to you Beaverbite, Geckameleon, and… some kind of small bird Pokemon with fire wings of some sort. I like the first two, but the third one looked a lot better in my head than what came out on paper, so he doesn’t get a name. (That’ll teach him for being drawn badly.)

As an extra treat for today, you know how I mentioned before that I don’t draw Pokemon often? Well, the only time I can ever recall drawing a Pokemon before today was the following drawing, done in early 2000.

If I could make my own Wii game… funny you should ask. This is probably my first time publicly saying this, but I very much would like to make my own single-player Wii game. In fact, I’ve been sketching out ideas for my game idea over the last four years.

Of course, it’s difficult to actually show sketches without giving away the game idea itself, but here’s some concepts for it that don’t give too much away:

This is one idea for the planet where the game would take place. I’d always liked the idea of a doughnut-shaped planet, and it makes for a few neat story possibilities in the game.

This is a concept for the interior of a cave in the game. The crystals would be somewhat significant in the game, but not in the usual “I have found a magical crystal” sense.

Enemies. Many games need them, and this game would need a lot of them.

Will my game idea ever get made? Who knows… but I sure hope so. Will it get made soon? I highly doubt it… keep in mind that I’ve already been sitting on this game idea for four years.

I like that one. Maybe I should put it on a T-shirt.

Why not? I’m having a great deal of fun with these Mario ones:

Somehow, I don’t think that Waluigi would feel particularly bad to have been the one SENDING the blue turtle shell…

Side note about Waluigi: the first time I ever saw a video of Charles Martinet, he was doing the voice of Waluigi saying “I’m Waluigi! Everybody’s a cheater but me!”. Charles Martinet, in case you were unaware, is the English voice of many Mario characters, including Mario, Luigi, and Wario. Anyway, when I saw the video, I was surprised seeing what the voice of the character actually looked like, and I’m fairly certain that memory influenced this picture.

I get the feeling that Casper the Friendly Ghost isn’t what the e-mailers had in mind.

That’s funny. That’s Jellyfish In Armour material right there:

Well, Hattie, I’m going to be honest with you… I’m not great at horses and I don’t know if I’ve ever drawn a unicorn, not to mention the fact that I have no idea what a horse looks like when it’s swimming in mud. So, I fudged it a bit and tried for “diving into mud” instead.

That was a weirder one for me, so I decided to break out some pencil crayons – something I rarely do – and draw something. There was a bouquet of carnations at home, so here was one of them:

Hmm… space and cookies. Well, this was the first thing that came to mind:

A fan named Steven wrote me with the following request: “I think you should draw “The Tortoise and the Hare”. The tortoise would have a rocket attached to its shell.” Sounds good to me:

There are actually a few influences behind this picture. The first, of course, if the Aesop’s Fable “The Tortoise and the Hare”, but there’s more than that. The rocket, while not identical, is somewhat inspired in its shape by Rocketsnail. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have his logo up anymore, but he used to have a 3D snail with a rocket tied to its back as his logo.

However, I also got some inspiration for this from… myself. Back in 2000, I created an animation in 3D Studio Max for animation class that was based on, you guessed it, The Tortoise and The Hare. It was called “The Rematch”, and these were the characters:

Ah… that takes me back.

A giant worm fighting a robot (a robot which, if you want, can be piloted by the hog mascot of the site)

You got it!