Pronoun Trouble

And here's today's Lurker Day treat! For everyone hanging around this journal, it's just a little something to say "thanks for being here". Whether you want to talk or not, I'm glad you're reading/watching/whatever.



Title: "Clear Body"

Inspired by an exchange I had on Tumblr. I had a lot of fun drawing this, and while I would also really love to share the "making of" pics I have of it, having work today left me with less free time to organize that than I'd like 😅 Still, if coloring pages or Pokémon are things you like, I hope this was a good treat for you and that you have a very good Lurker Day!

I kinda felt like I was spamming yesterday, so here's a couple more belatedly:



Chandelure (I don't have a good title for this one)

Guess who finally figured out a good Pokemon color match for the Nonbinary Pride flag? This person!

Now a shirt! Whoops, no it's not.



Trans Is Beautiful Trio

Updated from the first version, which only had Gardevoir and Milotic. (I absolutely cheated on sizing for Chandelure; I'll probably tweak it a bit for the final version that'll go up on TeePublic, but this works better for coloring, IMO.) I always planned to go back and include the Nonbinary Pride colors as soon as I could figure out a good match for them, it just took a bit longer than I expected - plus there was the Redbubble merge, and I was a bit paranoid about that, so. Anyway, finalized TeePublic art is forthcoming! In the mean time, feel free to print and color :Db

Edit: Shirt now available! It turned out really fantastic too, OMG ♥ Not anymore, alas.

I decided to go through and simplify my first batch of Pokemon coloring pages, removing the concentric lines to make them easier to color. I've got a few more to post after this, including the conclusion(?) of the Ragtime Pokemon set, but some of them still need some editing, and I don't want to do an absolutely huge image dump right off the bat.

Here we go! Click on the thumbnails for nice, big, printable versions of the coloring pages.


"Astonish (Simple)"


"Petal Dance (Simple)"


"Own Tempo (Simple)"


"Calm Mind (Simple)"


"Solar Beam (Simple)"


"Sweet Scent (Simple)"

"Trick-or-Treat-a"

In honor of Halloween, and because it's cute and it rhymes. Also Chikorita is surprisingly fun to draw? No complaints here!



"Return"

One of my local Pokemon Go friends is quite fond of my coloring pages, and mentioned that if I ever had any of Charmander, Murkrow, or Ditto, she would love them, since those are her son's favorite Pokemon. I had actually been vaguely looking/hoping for some more non-Community Day/non-Pride shirt coloring page ideas, and promptly took her remark as a prompt ;) I could only manage these two in one drawing, but Ditto will be following up shortly in a pic with Mimikyu (that I still need to scan).



"Bi Doof"

Speaking of Pride shirts, here's Bi Doof Bidoof! I'd been wanting to do something with that pun ever since it occurred to me, lol. I am a bi doof, and I own it. My only regret is that the purple stripe in the bi pride flag is such a dull shade, even compared to the navy blue; I really wish it popped a bit more. Maybe I'll re-color the shirt if I manage to find someplace other than TeePublic to take my stuff.



"Trans is Beautiful"

Holy cats, I almost missed this one! Anyway, redsixwing initially suggested Milotic as a subject, since its colors are basically the same as the Trans Pride flag. After some thought, I came up with Gardevoir as one with colors nearly the same as the Genderqueer Pride flag. Since Gardevoir is commonly thought of as a particularly lovely Pokemon, and Milotic is traditionally only available by making a rather shabby looking fish as beautiful as possible, I thought this was a fitting theme for the two of them. I have yet to come up with a Pokemon who is nearly Nonbinary Pride colored, but I'm sure I will sooner or later. (Pachirisu, maybe...? Turn those stripes purple, lean a bit more on the outline...)



In addition to Milotic, redsixwing suggested tying Absol into the popular "Disaster Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Etc" meme. I loved the idea, but hadn't gotten around to incorporating text or anything before the announcement that RedBubble had acquired TeePublic. If I ever find another site to sell through, I'm planning on doing some recolors of Absol for the Disaster Queer shirts.

I had really hoped to have Absol laying down with a paw over its face, as if hiding from the world, but couldn't make the pose turn out right on paper. Still, Petulant!Absol is a pretty good compromise in my opinion.

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I think that's all for now. In addition to the upcoming Ditto-and-Mimikyu pic, I've also got a Cyndaquil family portrait I'm working on for November's PoGo Community Day. I've got the rough done already, and really just need to tighten up the lines before I start inking. Hopefully I'll have a new shirts-and-stuff site before I get around to a Totodile family portrait.

"Chikorita Family Portrait"

For lack of a better title :P I didn't exactly go all out looking for an ability or move that fit this one. Anyway, here's the lineart I used to make my first shirt on TeePublic, if anyone wants to color one for themself :3b




"Hello, My Chiko"

Also for lack of a better title 9_9a I made both of these for Chikorita Community Day in Pokemon Go. I've got super vague plans to make the other three Johto starters in similar setups as well, especially the dancing one; I really want to put all three starters together as a team like that for a picture (and probably a shirt). Next one will probably be, "Hello, My Cindi", followed by "Hello, My Toto-diiiile~!", just to help the theme come through ;) I do plan to look for a title more along the lines of my traditional naming scheme once I get all three of them together, though.


Oh, Wish is now a shirt as well, if you care to go check that out :)b I think it looks really great on light blue, myself. "Unaware", the one with Slowbro and the angry Shellder, is next in line, though I'm not entirely sure after that.

Who likes coloring? 8D Here are all of my coloring pages so far, since AI is over, all in print quality (once you click the pictures).


"Sweet Scent"


"Petal Dance"


"Own Tempo"


"Solar Beam"


"Astonish"


"Calm Mind"


"Guardian of the Sun"


"Buu-chan"


Bonus:

"Unaware"

Shellder: It's our anniversary you big pink nitwit! I can't believe you forgot! I have half a mind to unfuse with you! *chew chew chew*
Slowbro: Was there something I was supposed to remember...?


Happy coloring, everyone!

Looks like this exact version of Kero-chan isn't going to be at the con, 'cuz I borrowed Sakura's sigil from online ^^a

For anyone 'round these parts who likes coloring, here's one final print version of Kero-chan. All the other pages are waiting until the con, as will a new version of Kero-chan with an original background.

Enjoy!



PS: I apparently didn't communicate effectively to my AI division head that I was drawing the anime-themed coloring pages, which resulted in some worry on his part and on the part of the con exec who oversees our division. Clarifying this is why I ended up eliminating the version with this background, but they both seemed pretty pleased to have otherwise misunderstood.

I feel the need to post this picture again, because Independence Day.



[Image Description: Crocheted star-spangled mascot-eagle with glasses, a red tie, and a raised eyebrow, holding an American flag]

Now, to find a physical fan mail address for the Colbert Report. (I know, I know, I should really just ask the reference desk at the library, but I keep forgetting! Also, social phobia, even if my mom is a librarian.)

Happy fourth day of July to all, regardless of location! And, er, fifth day of July to some.

It's done! Or, well, it was done half an hour ago. It then promptly become unfinished for a number of reasons, partly to do with my desire for perfection and the fact that I made the figures too tall so now I need to go in and re-apply the wax so it's about half a cm lower to keep the glass from distorting their heads, but mostly because hot glue really doesn't hold that well to wax. Don't get me wrong, there were totally advantages to that in the setup process, but there's definitely something to be said for the toothpick application method.

Anywho, pics! ( Ship In A Bottle )

Edit: Second place, w00t!

Woo, more amigurumi pics!

( Katia Managan from Prequel )

( Isaac from Golden Sun )

( Black Opal Dragon )

In addition to the black opal dragon, I added another two plain-colored griffins to my Etsy store, one in black and one in brown. I figured I'd skip pics of them for now, though :P With any luck, I'll be adding my Tetris blanket there sometime soon as well.

Quick reminder: I've got offers up at fandomaid to raise money for Superstorm Sandy relief. My customary offer is up here; I'm also making Dr. Hooves available in the auction.

Edit: Now with Etsy links! (Good grief, self...)