>>56578701I believe someone brought up the idea that these were just conceptual sketches some dude at GF made imitiating Sugimori's style (in terms of coloring and linework I guess), which they'd then give to Sugimori to actually make look like Pokemon.
Obviously there's tons of stages of conception for characters and mons. Kinda reminds me how BotW was pitched to have some Eldritch freak bosses at some point (pic related) but eventually went with something far softer.
I still kinda enjoy these designs.
