This is my belated Eevee Day drawing that I wanted to finish by yesterday, but I couldn't do so in time. Regardless of timing, this drawing was one of the oldest ideas I had sitting on my list for a very long time and it took me until now to finally put it onto a digital canvas!

For context as to what's going on here, Bruno the Eevee placed a bet with his teammate, TT the Riolu, to see how many apples the two of them could collect for their client by sunset the previous day. Whoever lost the bet would have to dance the entirety of the Nutcracker Suite while wearing a tutu on stage in front of their entire guild the following day. The competition between them was close, but TT won by 1 apple and so, Bruno had to bare the loss and humiliation as he reluctantly took the tutu, got on stage, and began dancing to the Nutcracker Suite, looking completely unamused by these turn of events and everyone, including his teammates, laughed and cheered as he danced throughout the song.

I originally planned to include mostly half of a human holding his arms as he wore the tutu. But, I could not draw the human's hand holding Bruno's paws properly and after a bit of pondering, I decided to scrap the human's inclusion and change the theme to have it take place in the universe of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (despite me never playing any of the games, I've seen a lot of fan art of the series and managed to get a general idea as to what the spinoff series is about.) Sometimes, thems the breaks and it can also lead to different opportunities to make the original vision even better as one changes their approach and new ideas flood in to compensate for one's lack of skills in a given situation. TL;DR: I need to practice drawing humans much more before I can include them in any serious drawings.

A mother Serperior is holding their newborn Snivy, who is reaching up to his mother, signaling to her that he wants to hug her head. Both of them are in an open, grassy field while sunlight is shining on Snivy's head as if he's being blessed by Arceus himself as he's being held by his loving, caring mother. Welcome to the world of Pokemon, my little Snivy!

They say that the loving embrace of a mother is one of the greatest and most precious feelings in the world! I wanted to depict that feeling to the best of my ability on a digital canvas and I absolutely love how this turned out!

While I was working on drawing this, I did some looking around on DeviantArt to see how other people handled drawing Serperior in this sort of pose and it turns out that this idea has been done before. Despite this, I wanted to give my own spin on it and it was purely coincidental that I came up with this idea, only to find that it's been done by several others before me. Regardless of the circumstances, I had a lot of fun drawing this and messing around with the shading and different brush styles to simulate lighting and the like, such as "Screen", "SVG Screen", and "Multiply"! I especially love how the standard pen brush and the airbrush can work hand in hand to really make the shading pop that much more and create a high-quality, professional-looking render of any given image or subject!

This was originally posted onto my DeviantArt, TheRealGeneralSnivy on 5/29/22.

Now that Soka's favorite jumbo beach ball has popped, he looks as though he's about to cry.

Drawing the jumbo beach ball flat was a task within itself, but I did what I could to emphasize it being flat by adding wrinkles to certain spots. I think the results turned out well in my opinion.

[All 4 parts of page 3, combined into one image:](https://www.deviantart.com/therealgeneralsnivy/art/Soka-the-Samurott-and-his-favorite-beach-ball-P3-917623361)

This snake family just acquired a home that they were desperately looking for as the rent for their old home was so astronomically high, that they couldn't afford to stay there and also pay for necessities such as food, water, cleaning supplies, etc. Ladies and gents; you're looking at a Serperior mother with her Servine son as they are now proud homeowners of this lovely 2-bedroom, 1-bath house, located in a nice, quiet neighborhood, where most businesses are local and they're only about 20 minutes away from the nearest major town, so if they need something from a major big brand store, it won't take an eternity to complete a round trip. Let's have a round of applause and congratulations to this wonderful, happy family!

This drawing is also going to serve as an update as to where I've been as it's been ~3 months since I drew anything new and a lot has happened during that time. Back in July of this year, the property we were living at for the past 10 years was bought out by another realtor company and we feared that our rent was going to increase as it has already done so at the beginning of this year by ~$250. After the acquisition, we received a letter from the new realtor company that our rent wasn't going up (right away. More on this in a little bit.) which was a huge relief. However, around mid-August, we received another letter from them informing us that the rent would be going up once more, starting in October 2023, by another ~$300! That's 2 rent increases for this year, which is really, really bad! For those wondering if companies can do that since in several states, there's a law that exists that makes it so there's a cap on how much rent can be raised per year. Sadly, Maine is not one of those states that has this law so, realtors can raise the rent as much as they want, whenever they want, so long as they inform their tenants at least 30 days in advance in writing. As a result of this new rent increase, we would not be able to afford the new rent amount as Mom and I live on monthly paychecks, which are used to pay for expenses such as bills, food, necessities, clothes, cleaning supplies, unexpected expenses, etc. So, we had to spend the last 2 months packing up our home while also searching for a new one that's not only within our price range of what we can afford for a monthly rent payment but also had to include heat as heating is very expensive here in Maine and it is required in order to survive Maine's harsh, hard winters. It also had to have enough storage to store as many of our belongings as possible, and it also had to have washer and dryer hookups. Towards the end of September, we were able to find a place that met most requirements for a much cheaper price. However, the place is a lot smaller than our old home and when we moved in, we had to get rid of/donate a lot of things as we don't have the room for them, which sucked as we had a lot of nice things that we had to give away. Despite that, Mom and I are thankful that we not only managed to find a place before October that included heat, plus most other amenities, including electricity which is a huge bonus as not a lot of places include electricity in the rent. We're also thankful that we have a roof over our heads so we're not out on the streets, which I was fearing was going to happen as there weren't too many places for rent that were within our price range and included what we needed. We managed to unpack most of the house, but there's still quite a bit of unpacking left to do, especially in Mom's room as her room is much smaller than mine. (I had to take the bigger bedroom due to my bed and furniture being so large.) Overall, the past 3 months have been the most stressful and scariest of my life as I was filled with fear, anxiety on top of what anxiety I had already, and uncertainty due to these events. We are slowly settling into our new home and thankfully, we're living in a nice, quiet neighborhood that isn't in the boonies and we're only an hour away from a major town, which is nice. I should be able to get back into drawing like I normally do, but who knows what life will throw at us next? Only one way to find out.

This was originally posted onto my DeviantArt, TheRealGeneralSnivy on 3/10/22.

My Servine drawing is finally finished! I'm surprised that it only took me several hours to complete this from start to finish, which is a great turnaround for me! When it comes to the limbs and the leaves on him, I took some creative liberties with them and I think those liberties paid off in the end as it looks excellent! When shading him, I attempted to add extra shading to his mouth, but it ended up shading half of him alongside his mouth. Despite this, the accident made it look even better than before, so I just rolled with it!

Your Snivy wants to go swimming at the swimming pool just below this hill! Will you join them?

This was another fun one to work on as there were a couple of challenges to figure out as I drew this one! First, was drawing Snivy. While normally, this isn't too difficult as I've drawn them several times now. The challenge, this time, was drawing them while having them face a good bit forward, towards the screen, but not so far forward that they're facing the screen directly, which was a doozy, especially for their head. I used one of Twitter user, @/reclusi0n's Snivys as a reference to help best figure out how to go about drawing Snivy's head at this angle. (Just remove the slash in the username.) To be specific, it is the non-shiny Snivy from [this tweet here.](https://twitter.com/reclusi0n/status/1678183515454681091?s=20)

The next challenge for me was drawing Snivy's inner tube. I wanted to make it so they're holding it at a slightly downward tilt. The reason this was so challenging was due to how I wanted to about showing the underside of the inner tube at this desired angle. In the end, despite the difficulties figuring it out, it turned out excellently and I love the final results!

Overall, this was another fun challenge as I experimented with drawing Snivy at a different angle than I typically draw them and I also experimented with a couple of different brushing modes to better handle shading, especially for Snivy's eyes! Even though the background wasn't the main focus of this drawing, this allowed me to practice a little bit more with perspectives and distant objects as well! The swimming pool may not have turned out the way I wanted it, but it still looks good, in my opinion! This was another area where I experimented a bit as I tried out a couple of different brushes to better illustrate the water's texture and the pool's depth! Regardless, this was worth the experience gained and it'll be useful for future endeavors!

This was originally posted onto my DeviantArt, TheRealGeneralSnivy on 3/12/22.

Snivy spinning from right to left while using its Vine Whip.

This was originally posted onto my DeviantArt, TheRealGeneralSnivy on 7/25/22.

Dewott loves resting on top of his giant balloon bed. He better be careful as to not let his Razor Shells poke the balloon the wrong way while he's sleeping. Otherwise...

[Dewott reference used for his pose.](https://www.deviantart.com/dasindy214/art/Dewott-914149015)

[Balloon creases reference.](https://www.deviantart.com/vittimac/art/A-Fun-Balloon-Ride-886204411)

Many players who have played Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have set up a picnic at some point during their adventure in Paldea. They set them up for many reasons; like to take a break and hang out with their Pokemon friends, to play with them, to watch and get mesmerized by some of the smaller Pokemon glide across the ground as they circle a ball (which is a real thing that still hasn't been patched to this day,) or to breed certain Pokemon together until they hatch the perfect shiny Pokemon. When it comes to Pokemon breeding, it can be a very boring and tedious task when you're breeding for shinies, only to get unlucky with a batch of 200+ eggs and no shiny hatches from any of them and then have to reset the game and restart the entire process all over again for another 30 minutes! Part of that process inspired this drawing as I thought to myself, "What if it wasn't so boring? What if waiting for the eggs were a little more fun? I need more practice drawing Typhlosion and I never drew a Ditto before so, why not make the breeding process look more fun while also making it wholesome, and cute?" And so, I drew this: A sleepy Typhlosion laying on top of a big, round, bouncy red ball with their Ditto partner sleeping on top of them during a bright and sunny day, the perfect kind of day to do some Pokemon breeding and breed the perfect shiny Cyndaquil!

I made myself a new desktop wallpaper for my new refurbished 4K monitor and I absolutely love how well this turned out! Not only that, but I wanted to get more practice in for drawing Typhlosion as they're still very difficult to draw! It doesn't help with the fact that I don't draw them often enough due to their overall complexity, but hey. I just need to draw them more often.

I attempted to draw this in Krita first as the layer limit in Procreate is very low at 28 layers for a 3840 x 2160 size canvas, but I ultimately decided to continue working on the drawing in Procreate instead, despite its limitations due to my iPad’s hardware being so weak. That's the 9th gen iPad for ya. (I need to upgrade to the iPad Pro at some point in the future.) Regardless of the limitations, I took on the challenge and broke it down into stages during the creation process. When I was getting close to the layer limit, I duplicated the drawing and proceeded to the next stage which involved merging certain parts of the original drawing together to make one layer for that particular part such as merging the colors and shading of Typhlosion's ball together to make 1 layer as opposed to 4. The same was also true for all the other environmental background elements. Regardless, this was challenging to do, but it was worth the experience and I love how well this turned out!

This was originally posted onto my DeviantArt, TheRealGeneralSnivy on 7/8/22.

I got this idea after I watched the ending of episode 11 of Spy x Family where Anya reads her mother's mind and within the vision, a tiny dog slices Anya's throat. I'm flagging this as Mature Content due to mild blood within, so be forewarned before revealing.

[This tutorial helped me with figuring out how I could go about drawing a night sky with the moon and it's worth looking over if you're interested.](https://www.deviantart.com/velsinte/art/Tutorial-Night-sky-610854735)

This was originally posted onto my DeviantArt, TheRealGeneralSnivy on 3/13/22.

This is an emote I've put together for my Twitch channel and I decided to upload this as a piece of fanart too! This took a lot of work, making separate drawings for Snivy, Servine, and Serperior, and bringing them all together while trying to make everything look good! The background was inspired by the Gambit Boost portrait seen in Fire Emblem 3 Houses and I did what I could to recreate it while throwing in my own spin into it, along with the boarders separating the 3 aforementioned Pokemon!

Pichu and their trainer spent the day training together so that they were prepared for the long, rough road ahead of them as they do their best to imitate their idol who became the very best, like no one ever was with their own Pikachu. Even though their idol used many different Pokemon throughout their journey, their Pikachu always accompanied them everywhere they went and was always a part of their team. To become stronger so that this ambitious trainer and their Pichu can become more like their idol, they push themselves hard to become stronger together so that they can face whatever the Pokemon world throws at them. After a long day of training, this trainer and their Pichu settle down for some well deserved R&R and during their down time, Pichu's trainer pulled out a red ball and knew that it was time to play. And so, the two of them played for a while until it was time to settle down, eat some dinner, and then prepare to go to sleep so that they can resume their training first thing in the morning. These two got a long way to go before they can catch up to their idol, but they're more than ready to complete the journey together!