Make Tea Not War

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
rachelordwayart
rachelordwayart

Page 1 of a 3-page color comic in a cartoony art style featuring the character Yellow from the manga Pokemon Adventures, Pika the Pikachu, and many other Pokemon. Panel 1: Sunrise on a beach by the ocean. Pokémon trainers are playing on the shore and Seels are lying on the rocks enjoying the sun. There’s a Slowpoke dipping its tail in the water. Yellow and Pika excitedly run through shallow water towards the ocean. Panel 2: A view under the water as Yellow and Pika dive in. There are Staryu and Shellder floating around and burrowing in the sand, which slopes off to show that the water gets much deeper further from the shore. Panel 3: Yellow and Pika swim with a “school” of Squirtles.ALT
Page 2 Panel 1: Yellow and Pika play catch with Azumarills and Marills using an inflated beach ball. Panel 2: Yellow and Pika march in line behind a swarm of Woopers walking across the ocean floor, guided by Quagsires. Panel 3: Yellow and Pika explore a coral reef. Qwilfish, Horsea, and Corsola swim around, bringing Yellow and Pika flowers and stones as gifts. Panel 4: Yellow and Pika riding a Gyarados, it’s swimming very fast and they’re struggling to hold on.ALT
Page 3 Panel 1: Yellow and Pika explore an undersea cave with Kabuto crawling around. The scene is illuminated by the lights of Chinchous and Lanturns. Panel 2: Yellow and Pika gaze up in awe at a giant stone tablet with a carving of Ancient Mew. Unown float around them, while off in the distance Suicune stands in silhouette on a tall rock tower, unseen by Yellow and Pika. Panel 3: Yellow and Pika ride a Mantine up from the depths back towards the surface, surrounded by a school of Remoraid. Panel 4: Yellow and Pika walk from the water back to the beach from Page 1 Panel 1, laughing with excitement. It’s sunset and the beach is empty, the Seel are swimming away and the Trainers are going home. The Slowpoke from Page 1 Panel 1 is now a Slowbro, looking very confused, like it’s surprised to have evolved.ALT

Another underwater Pokemon comic commission (#1: Sapphire VS Kingler, #2: Yellow VS Dragonair), the first one in full color, and my last art commission of 2025, finished just before New Year's Eve!

I was nervous about tackling the color for this—so many different Pokemon, every panel being a complete scene change—so the fact that I was able to figure it out at all, never mind figuring it out this well, really shows how much better I understand color palettes than I did just a few years ago. Light and shadow is still a mystery though, lol.

I had another breakthrough in regards to the line art, as I switched back to traditional inking after 2 1/2 years of inking digitally. The appeal of going digital was that it was so much easier to correct mistakes, but that turned into a temptation nightmare where I just kept redrawing the same lines over and over in search of perfection 😵‍💫 Inking traditionally was a relief by comparison as I was forced to A) pencil more precisely in the first place (instead of going "oh, I'll fix it on the computer later") and B) just live with whatever lines I put on the page, only carefully applying white-out if I thought an error was really bad.

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