I’m doing the 150 pokémon for my first 150 FA watchers.
In the spring of 2018, my salary was cut. It seemed like an error at first, or like they’d restore it to its previous level…
But in practical terms, this now meant I had to go to stores that were sometimes hours out of the way to be able to afford food.
And in this struggle to stretch my now-wildly-insufficient paycheck, there was no time or energy for art.

  Nyaasu
Nyaasu is another one of those “I want to fav everything in their gallery” people. He doesn’t stay in any particular category long, but does constantly gravitate back to what we can widely call gaming art. How could I pick just one game that would symbolize this? Mario, I thought, was the best game to symbolize gaming.
Nyaasu doesn’t exactly have a ’sona, so I knew I had to combine Mario and Shellder in some way. My first instinct was “Mario mistakes Shellder for a 1-up mushroom” or “Mario goes swimming in the Pokémon world”, but then I remembered Super Mario Odyssey: the game that was “it” at the time Nyaasu watched me. What better way to pay tribute than by reducing the amount of characters I have to draw?
Yeah, I don’t think Mario would be amused either; but at least this way I pay tribute to that old viral comic where Mario tries to cap a pregnant lady and ends up capturing the child instead.
^{I almost interchanged Today’s Pokémon again (as happened with Voltorb and Electrode last time) because I forgot to Google a reference for Mario’s cap so instead was automatically going to use the next person’s ’sona. I feel funny about the fact that I didn’t rotate or move Shellder’s shell at all for this drawing. If you’ve ever done the “divide the drawing into a grid and copy it onto a new sheet” exercise, that’s what it felt like (as opposed to something creative and free). I went back and forth between sad Mario and mad Mario in my head, ultimately deciding the former was easier to draw. The mustache was a very last-minute decision: Shellder obviously has its famous tongue, but you don’t exactly stick your tongue out derpily when you’re sad; you frown or purse your lips… but Shellder’s mouth isn’t visible. And while searching for Mario’s cap, I chanced upon flashing headlines that Mario without the mustache looks just plain wrong, and I wanted to make it very clear that it was Mario in there. Besides, the meme comic also put the mustache on the baby to signal this, so it wouldn’t be a proper tribute without it!}

  FluffGeek
When FluffGeek watched me on March 25, 2018; I developed a lot of theories: did I know him from before joining FA by another name? Was he a lurker on my blog? Had something in my gallery touched him on a deep level? And was I disappointing him with my hiatus? He’s closed his account, so I guess I’ll never know.
FluffGeek was a babyfur, but I honestly had a lot of trouble thinking of a babyfur-themed picture involving Cloyster. My usual “out” of finding out which trainers train Cloyster and drawing that, didn’t help; the only trainer that trains Cloyster is a fisherman and I cannot imagine him as a babyfur. What I honestly wanted to do was another vore joke like yesterday, but I couldn’t find anything to make that work with Cloyster, either (is there such a thing as oyster sushi? No! Could a baby get accidentally eaten by a cloyster? No, it can’t lie on its side!). After hours of this, I cried out that, if it were Shellder, I could just draw him sitting on its tongue! At least it would be keeping him safe! And that’s when I came up with what you see here.
^{I’ve never drawn a Tanuki before. It didn’t help that all I had for a reference was FluffGeek’s profile picture, which is a headshot (it wasn’t all I had because I couldn’t find more, it’s because that’s all he ever got made!) So I pulled up some pictures of real tanukis, and had to, simultaneously, anthropomorphize them and babify them. It was fun, but hard.
Then there’s cloyster, who is just a difficult Pokémon to draw, and I was going to draw him doing several things it never does: sit on the sand, look down, and most unbelievably of all, smile! But I was admant on that smile. Pokémon is built on the premise that any Pokémon can do anything, so could a Cloyster be a caring babysitter? I had to be able to show that it could! Those spikes, though, were a pain to draw, especially when considering that I’m running out of space on the canvas.}

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)