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Pokemon is a large part of how I got into drawing, at a point when I wasn't confident enough to draw people yet but was happy to draw monsters.
I tended to get excluded during gradeschool lunch hour because kids suck at coming up with better games sometimes than making one kid's live garbage, and it gave me a whole hour every day to just doodle. I would make up all sorts of novel pokemon, and eventually my own creations entirely. My favorite was always the grass-type eevee I drew back in '98 though. I think a lot of us drew one of those. I called mine Ivyon.
Many years of drawing has netted me a great friendgroup with interests similar and different from my own, and we all loved pokemon at some point or another. I still draw to this day and my favorite is still monsters. So I made a quick revisit to the design for nostalgia. Pokemon's biggest power is remaining fun and nostalgic regardless of your age, making you friends along the way, and getting you into hobbies you never even knew you'd be good at.
That makes me genuinely joyful.
