First Summer - Team Photo

Thank you! I discovered the magic of vapor trails, making every sky 20% better.

Fluffiness > consistency any day
There will be much sadness when Nathan loses his fluffy tail with the next evolution. But Pilot can always grow more fluffy feathers, right? Don't even try to observe Sara's hair. It has a life of its own. Nope, I got nothing to do with that.

Oh wow, I would never have expected a compliment on that. Thank you!
Any kind of hair looks better with volume, and the structure and 'messiness' of the mane and tail is suggested in a lot of the official artwork (Huh, now that I look at it again, Terry's design varies a lot from the official artwork. He looks a lot more mature, which is probably a good thing?), and I think many people draw it too straight and 'tame' because they're afraid of experimenting with shape. But that's fun! D:

The eyes... Oh god the eyes... You have no idea how many tries it always takes to make the eyes look only slightly creepy. He might be a killing machine at this point of the game, but actually he's the meekest guy on the team...

Thank you!

First catch in the whole game.
Poor Sky!

So I've actually been cool the whole time? That's a relief. ... Maybe the size consistency will become easier when they all evolve to be big enough for comfortable drawing.

Ahhhh no worries! In my head, it doesn't make sense to draw a team picture shortly before a death, because then it would become outdated too fast. (But apparently it makes sense to draw one 2 pages before an evolution whoops.)
I've done really well in this game. No one will die until you've grown to love them with a large part of your soul that will proceed to die with them.

And now wait for the D'awwww feeling that's going to occur when you see what this is for in the context of the next page.

Thank you!
PS.: The secret to my colors is 'Asfdgeafhk turn the damn saturation down!'

Asfgashj I didn't mean to scare you all! I just meant to suggest that there will be more bickering and moping in the near future. >_>

Fluffy clouds are gooood. All things fluffy are good.
I've never cared much about official Pokémon size (lol Kingdra), it's rather that some of them turned out a bit taller than usual. Should have scanned the paper sketch I had instead of making a rushed digital one...
Awww glad that you think so! Everyone says one shouldn't mix soft shading and cell shading, but somehow it works here. Maybe something to do with focus. Thanks for the artistic analysis!

Thank youuuu! These guys know how to pose. :3