Hello! I’m Grey, and I’m a mixed media illustrator who has been on a nearly year-long journey to draw group shots based on all 18 Pokémon types, each including a trainer and 11 monsters. I started back in February, and finished just in time for my end of year deadline!
Drawing an 18-piece series was a feat unlike any I’d attempted before, and it certainly stretched me as an artist. It was a challenge to keep each composition fresh while also just desperately trying to make 12 characters fit on a page! Altogether in the series, I drew 198 different Pokémon with their two trainers, a girl (Chickie) and a guy (Manly). Each piece took around 10 hours to create.
If there is anything I would want to pass along from my experience in this series, it is that grand results can come from the most humble means. I’ve seen many artists who swear by a specific paper or the most top-of-the-line pencil. Using premium materials can indeed make the experience more pleasurable and can improve the quality of the piece. But there is also great art waiting to be made from the everyday materials all around you! Because this series was born during my time at an office job, each piece was drawn with a mechanical pencil on copy paper from the printer, and I could not be more proud of the results.
Now that my project is complete, I’m honestly not quite sure what to do with myself, but you can be sure I’ll keep drawing! You can follow my artistic shenanigans over at my Instagram! Thanks for reading and following along on my Pokémon art adventure!
In case you missed the first half of illustrations from the series, you can check out the previous post here.
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#10 Ghost-Type - Because who wouldn’t want to tell ghost stories WITH ghost Pokémon!
#11 Electric-Type - Modern problems require modern solutions - including using your Pikachu as a phone-charger
#12 Steel-Type - Aegislash’s shield needed some repairs, but Manly’s got it covered with his handy welding tools!
#13 Normal-Type - lots of Pokémon franchise Easter eggs in this one!
#14 Poison-Type - and the debut of Professor Manly
#15 Ground-Type - Manly and co. know that it’s important to take care of our earth - it’s the only one we’ve got!
#16 Fighting-Type - Chickie puts the ‘train’ in Pokémon Trainer!
#17 Fire-Type - So much shading in this one-!
#18 Water-Type - Who else wants a real life Lapras to float on in their pool??
