>>12918583But...that's what he's doing. Drawing them if they were animals in our world with their own features (leaves, flames, bangles, whatever). That's why the Gengar line are drawn as bats, or how Dragonite is a giant Japanese salamander.
He's not out to draw them as how they look in the games.
>>12918645I actually don't think they're very grotesque at all, aside from ones like Espeon (which is clearly based on a sphynx cat).