150 Watchers: 074-076 Geodude line
I’m doing the 150 pokémon for my first 150 FA watchers.
Having failed to secure a job after graduating, I turned back to art, starting by uploading what I’d hand drawn during my hiatus (because, yes, there was some things I’d drawn by hand after my tablet was stolen). This got the attention of several new watchers:
Macgyver
Despite the inspiring name, Macgyver has nothing to do with the TV show in either of its iterations. It was hard to find out what he was like instead, since he doesn’t exactly have much in his gallery, other than the fact that he’s a babyfur. Fortunately, quite a few people have drawn him and it is pretty clear he is (or at least, was at the time of watching me) a Sonic-style fox.
That, however, created a new problem: what does a baby look like in the Sonic-verse? (There wasn’t any good references of what Macgyver looked like as a baby.) Fortunately, there is an episode where baby Sonic and Tails appear, which meant I had a canon answer to what he should look like!
Only thing left was to decide was what they’d be doing together, and the deciding factor was that I couldn’t reconcile the fact that Geodude floats with any of my ideas, so in the end, I ended up just recycling the idea for the Magnemite sketch …with an added level of “danger” for Geodude. What? Rock is weak against drool! I mean water.
How far can a fox open its mouth? The verisimilitude of this drawing depends entirely on that! I sort of cheated on that point, though, by just… not drawing it. Geodude proved incredibly hard to draw, though, in particular the mouth and the hands. I ended up taking this as a lesson that graying part of the lines out is an improvement on motion blur, but should the hands rotate as he flails them? I just gotta practice it more! The other motion blur I’m not happy with in this drawing is the wagging tail, but oh well you can’t have everything.
HadesFox
Hades is another babyfur fox who loves his aviator goggles. For his picture, I went back to the Machoke sketch and used a discarded idea from it: that of having the 4-armed Pokémon frantically perform a diaper change.
I very much felt like I had no idea what I was doing with this one. I had to find a reference for the bottles of baby oil and baby powder and the cartoonish way in which Graveler uses them is, of course, a very bad idea in real life. I started drawing Hades without much idea of his facing or angle just hoping things would fall into place. I guess you could say they did, but as evidenced by the paw pads, I was hoping to get a little more of him in the picture.
Lecj07
I’d been friends with Trey for years before learning he even had an FA account. He honestly didn’t use it much, so here I had to use what I already knew. Trey alternates between caretaker of babyfurs, and babyfur in need of caretaking, though he’ll often vehemently deny the latter.
I chose to portray him as one anyway firstly to keep in with the theme of the other two, and secondly because it’s on his refsheet. Additionally I couldn’t think of an appropriate theme with him as a caretaker for Golem, but I could think of Golem caretaking him.
This is especially so when I remembered Trey liked to build things, and there are lots of toys for babies centered on the concept of buildings. I, however, wanted the most classic, most emblematic of them all: the letter blocks… which immediately made me question how would Golem, a Pokémon presumably caught wild as a Geodude, know about them, let alone know enough to teach his babified trainer how to play. I spent the whole time thinking about that scene from The Sword in the Stone where the owl teaches the boy the ABCs, and the scene from Peter Pan where the dog arranges the letter blocks, suggesting animals have some sort of innate understanding of these things, possibly because they play with letter blocks when they’re cubs too.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this drawing is that it forces me to portray Golem as extremely gentle just like my last Golem drawing. Drawing it sitting on the ground was an experience, for sure, different from other ground-sitters I’ve drawn. I hesitated a lot on what letters to put on the letter blocks. If you look carefully, there’s conceivably a block face for every letter of the alphabet (with 10 spaces left over in fact!) I’ve always wondered how block makers reconcile the fact that the number of letters is not divisible by the number of faces on a cube, and the answer is it’s kind of up to chance. I’m going to claim the “extra” spaces just have the vowels two more times to make it easier to form words. For Trey, I was just not sur what pose to put him in. Originally, I wanted to have him putting his own block on the tower, but I realized that would require me to design more letter blocks, the horror! I was aided in my decision by the fact that I just drew the head too close to the ground, so rather than move/redraw it, I decided he should be crawling over, called by the magic of having a tower appear out of nothing, rediscovering the joy of building.
As with the twitter sketches, if you want yours colored, or if you want me to edit you in to somebody else's, I'll happily do it for $5 (not counting shading)
Having failed to secure a job after graduating, I turned back to art, starting by uploading what I’d hand drawn during my hiatus (because, yes, there was some things I’d drawn by hand after my tablet was stolen). This got the attention of several new watchers:
MacgyverDespite the inspiring name, Macgyver has nothing to do with the TV show in either of its iterations. It was hard to find out what he was like instead, since he doesn’t exactly have much in his gallery, other than the fact that he’s a babyfur. Fortunately, quite a few people have drawn him and it is pretty clear he is (or at least, was at the time of watching me) a Sonic-style fox.
That, however, created a new problem: what does a baby look like in the Sonic-verse? (There wasn’t any good references of what Macgyver looked like as a baby.) Fortunately, there is an episode where baby Sonic and Tails appear, which meant I had a canon answer to what he should look like!
Only thing left was to decide was what they’d be doing together, and the deciding factor was that I couldn’t reconcile the fact that Geodude floats with any of my ideas, so in the end, I ended up just recycling the idea for the Magnemite sketch …with an added level of “danger” for Geodude. What? Rock is weak against drool! I mean water.
How far can a fox open its mouth? The verisimilitude of this drawing depends entirely on that! I sort of cheated on that point, though, by just… not drawing it. Geodude proved incredibly hard to draw, though, in particular the mouth and the hands. I ended up taking this as a lesson that graying part of the lines out is an improvement on motion blur, but should the hands rotate as he flails them? I just gotta practice it more! The other motion blur I’m not happy with in this drawing is the wagging tail, but oh well you can’t have everything.
HadesFoxHades is another babyfur fox who loves his aviator goggles. For his picture, I went back to the Machoke sketch and used a discarded idea from it: that of having the 4-armed Pokémon frantically perform a diaper change.
I very much felt like I had no idea what I was doing with this one. I had to find a reference for the bottles of baby oil and baby powder and the cartoonish way in which Graveler uses them is, of course, a very bad idea in real life. I started drawing Hades without much idea of his facing or angle just hoping things would fall into place. I guess you could say they did, but as evidenced by the paw pads, I was hoping to get a little more of him in the picture.
Lecj07I’d been friends with Trey for years before learning he even had an FA account. He honestly didn’t use it much, so here I had to use what I already knew. Trey alternates between caretaker of babyfurs, and babyfur in need of caretaking, though he’ll often vehemently deny the latter.
I chose to portray him as one anyway firstly to keep in with the theme of the other two, and secondly because it’s on his refsheet. Additionally I couldn’t think of an appropriate theme with him as a caretaker for Golem, but I could think of Golem caretaking him.
This is especially so when I remembered Trey liked to build things, and there are lots of toys for babies centered on the concept of buildings. I, however, wanted the most classic, most emblematic of them all: the letter blocks… which immediately made me question how would Golem, a Pokémon presumably caught wild as a Geodude, know about them, let alone know enough to teach his babified trainer how to play. I spent the whole time thinking about that scene from The Sword in the Stone where the owl teaches the boy the ABCs, and the scene from Peter Pan where the dog arranges the letter blocks, suggesting animals have some sort of innate understanding of these things, possibly because they play with letter blocks when they’re cubs too.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this drawing is that it forces me to portray Golem as extremely gentle just like my last Golem drawing. Drawing it sitting on the ground was an experience, for sure, different from other ground-sitters I’ve drawn. I hesitated a lot on what letters to put on the letter blocks. If you look carefully, there’s conceivably a block face for every letter of the alphabet (with 10 spaces left over in fact!) I’ve always wondered how block makers reconcile the fact that the number of letters is not divisible by the number of faces on a cube, and the answer is it’s kind of up to chance. I’m going to claim the “extra” spaces just have the vowels two more times to make it easier to form words. For Trey, I was just not sur what pose to put him in. Originally, I wanted to have him putting his own block on the tower, but I realized that would require me to design more letter blocks, the horror! I was aided in my decision by the fact that I just drew the head too close to the ground, so rather than move/redraw it, I decided he should be crawling over, called by the magic of having a tower appear out of nothing, rediscovering the joy of building.
As with the twitter sketches, if you want yours colored, or if you want me to edit you in to somebody else's, I'll happily do it for $5 (not counting shading)
Category Artwork (Digital) / Baby fur
Species Pokemon
Size 1881 x 942px
File Size 365.3 kB
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