Monster Pokemon

While I continue to work on my BarbozaToons comic, I thought I'd regale you all with some of the multitudinous minutiae about my other comic projects.

Off and on for years, I've been working on a project that endeavors to adapt the "Pokémon" anime into the format of a newspaper comic strip. It's primarily been fueled by my loathing of the actual "Pokémon" newspaper strip that ran from September 2000 to March 2001 and was clearly written by people who knew nothing about the franchise. My version retold the anime's stories, while maintaining the personalities of the characters and featuring much more lush artwork. I may post some samples in the future, but until then, here's something I drew last night - the cover illustration for the strip's first treasury, which'd feature color reprints of the first two book collections.

Non-sequitur? Not quite. Note the highlights on the characters and the backgrounds, which is an aspect of coloring that I've recently ventured into. The flat colors I've been doing were starting to bug me, since I couldn't get a lot of subtle shading fluctuations. Until I get Photoshop (which may happen sooner than I think), this is the next best thing.