DAILY 'MON

So I drew Charmander the other day for Sketch Dailies...

Then you know, nostalgia kicked in, and I had to draw the other original starter Pokemon;

Squirtle and Bubasaur.

The old Charmander was my original starter from 1999.

I always maintain, it was a tough yet right choice.

Trainers

Ok it's safe to say Pokemon has been on the brain the last month.

But hey, I'm not the only one, as Google proved yesterday for April Fools.

The other day I was rooting around some of my past sketches, and found a bunch of drawings of Pokemon trainer protagonist heads. I didn't want them to go to waste, so I drew the characters I'd missed and spruced them up digitally.

I couldn't remember why I had drawn them in the first place, so I turned them into this neat repeat pattern. I didn't know what to do with the pattern, so whilst I mull that over here it is. 

It currently makes a good front page for my website too.

Just sayin.

Twitch Played Pokémon

On March 1st 2014, Red beat the Elite 4, with a few helping hands:

This is my little tribute to the original Twitch Plays Pokémon Red event.

For those who may have missed this, 'Twitch Plays Pokémon' is a massive online social experiment hosted by the game streaming site Twitch in which tens of thousands of people attempt to play the same game of Pokémon at the same time. This is done in real time by any member of the website inputting commands into the chat section of the stream. 

This obviously results in pure chaos.

The whole process has been oddly mesmerising, and at times hilarious. Red would run around in circles; taking hours to walk through a corridor, many pokémon have been accidentally thrown away, and don't even get me started on the Helix fossil.

I originally posted this tribute on twitter on the day the twitch viewers beat the original endgame.

Since then they've graduated to Pokémon Crystal, and are a good 11 days into it now.

You can check out their progress right here.

I've never wanted to play Pokémon so much as an adult than I do right now.