Post-a-Mon: A Weekly Pokemon Drawing Challenge

[Roserade]

Breaking news, Marioboards community! I just got correspondence from some friends at Game Freak, and apparently, they're desperate for new Pokemon to put into the next generation of games. Their artists have run out of ideas and ink! Thankfully, I was able to let them know that the Marioboards are full of talented and inventive artists, and that we could handle making the new mons for them.

Every week on Sunday, I'll be posting a prompt, and at any point throughout the week, you can post your new creature design! You can take the prompt as literally or as loosely as you'd like, and your designs can be as serious or as goofy as you'd like. No particular metric of artistic ability required. Anything goes, let's just see what Pokemon you can come up with! Of course, alternate forms of existing Pokemon are permitted as well.

You're also encouraged to post general info, dex entries, lore, stats and movepool... Whatever you want to include, have fun and toss it in! All you really "need" to post, though, is your drawing and your Pokemon's name.

To start things off strong, your prompt for Week 1 is:
Partner Pokemon
Be it a starter, a Route 1 encounter, or a lifelong friend, design a Pokemon that you'd want at your side for your adventure!

 

[Roserade]

Since I'm initiating this challenge, it only seems fair that I start off the sharing!

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Beanishboi
The Satchel Pokemon
Grass-Normal

The satchel at its side is homemade by the Beanishboi who carries it, so each satchel is unique. It enjoys helping others by carrying objects and small Pokemon.

Height: 2'11"
Weight: 15 lbs​

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Beanishboi is a pretty simple design, and yes, I am commiting the cardinal sin of giving a Pokemon clothes. This fella is basically borrowed from a creature I designed about three years ago now for a different project, called Beanboy. I feel like I posted that one somewhere on these forums, but I don't feel like looking for it right now.

I envision this Pokemon being one who is consistently at your side in the game like the Gen 9 legendaries, and you would actually use its satchel as your own bag in-game! I think it would be a cute way to have your items with you, so that your character isn't forced to always wear a backpack. As for battle, I have the premise for an ability and move that ties to it, but I have no idea how busted it would be competitively. The Carrier ability would let Beanishboi carry multiple items, and by using the move Distribute, Beanishboi could then give one of those items to another Pokemon. I feel like that would be beastly, but with how frail Beanishboi would otherwise be, I don't think it would be tooooooo bad overall.

Beanishboi's name derives from "beamish boy", a term used in the Jabberwocky poem. It's kind of a bean, though it's more of a pea, so it's bean-ish; boi is a more gender neutral term for boy, since Beanishboi can be male or female.

 

[fantanoice]

I think having it as a Pokemon always alongside you like the Gen 9 legendaries is a good way to interpret the prompt. Rotomdex would probably qualify for this as well.

I'll draw up something later~

 

[Mike Wheeler]

Breaking news, Marioboards community! I just got correspondence from some friends at Game Freak, and apparently, they're desperate for new Pokemon to put into the next generation of games. Their artists have run out of ideas and ink! Thankfully, I was able to let them know that the Marioboards are full of talented and inventive artists, and that we could handle making the new mons for them.

I can't tell, is this a for-fun inspiration prompt or actually the case?

 

[Roserade]

It's all for-fun inspiration. With all due respect to this community, I highly doubt Game Freak would ever come here first for Pokemon designs

 

[Mike Wheeler]

It's all for-fun inspiration. With all due respect to this community, I highly doubt Game Freak would ever come here first for Pokemon designs

Wellya never know

 

[Lin Beifong]

Chelli
The Satellite Pokémon

Type: Ground
Ability: Rough Skin / Pressure / Solid Rock (hidden)

Height: 0.7 m / 2'4 "
Weight: 23 kg / 51 lbs

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It was first sighted shortly after a meteorite impact. From birth, this Pokémon carries a thorny magnetic sphere which floats above its head. When threatened, it launches the sphere at its opponent with great speed.

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Assorted trivia:

• Evolves into Chellmosk at level 35 and becomes Ground/Psychic
• Has very high defense
• Learns a number of psychic and steel-type moves.
• Is a lizard

 

[Hooded Pitohui]

Partner Pokemon
Be it a starter, a Route 1 encounter, or a lifelong friend, design a Pokemon that you'd want at your side for your adventure!

Name: Chiropeta​

Name derivation: Order Chiroptera with rearranged letters + peta for petal, as in flower petal

Type: Grass/Flying

Inspirations: Nectivorous bats in general, the Southern Long-Nosed Bat in terms of design, the thought that a bat's face vaguely looks like a flower bud.

Abilities:
-Overgrow
-Sap Sipper (Hidden)

Miscellaneous details:

-Grass starter
-First stage of a three stage line, goes on to incorporate more cactus elements at later evolutionary stages (e.g., fur that bristles into spines)
-Relatively simple, grounded design to match first-stage starters generally being very recognizable, fairly plain animals.
-Grass/Flying dual type
-Survives by consuming nectar from flowers in desert, has adapted to blooming cacti flowers
-Is not a strong flyer at this first stage. As a result, it relies on a form of camouflage. When it wraps itself in its wings and perches upon a cactus with its face tilted upwards, it blends in with the cactus and appears to be a flower bud on the cactus.
-It will stay still for however long it takes for predators and threats to lose interest. It will try to flee if disturbed, but it doesn't often get away.
-The veins in the stretched skin forming its wings call to mind leaf veins, design-wise.
-Functionally, the prominent blood vessels in the thin outstreched skin help with thermoregulation, both dissipating the heat generated while flying and helping it cope with the desert heat during the day time.
-They become a burden at night, when heat conservation is necessary, but at night it often wraps itself in its wings as part of its camouflage, closing them tightly around its body, heat from its core radiating out and helping to warm its rapidly-cooling wings.

As a result of its underdeveloped ability to fly, it has a skittish disposition. It will wrap itself in its wings to disguise itself as a bud on a cactus at the smallest sign of danger. Despite this, its gentleness and easy-to-fulfill dietary needs make it a popular first partner for new trainers.

It survives by drinking nectar from the flowers which bloom on cacti. On occassion, it mistakenly lands on Maractus due to its poor eyesight. These incidents most often result in both Pokémon becoming startled, and quickly end when Chiropeta flies off in a hurry. When Chiropeta mistakenly lands on Cacturne, by contrast, the incidents are not resolved peacefully.

 

[Meta Knight]

Long ago, in ancient times, when people were just learning the potential of bonding with Pokémon, the region was divided into three kingdoms. Each of these were spread out in far away corners, but the civilizations in each governed the ability to master a distinct habitat. While the technology might be primitive compared to the modern developments of the Pokémon world, the people would make do