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It's the battle of the bands. The competition is fierce and the talent is top notch. Who will come out on top and be the idol group to end all idol groups throughout the farthest reaches of the galaxy? Today, Vulpix, Chikorita and Charlotte's band Strawberry Milk Fantastic, an impressive group of young girls from Popstar, will square off against Joy, Chicolita and Clefairy's band Choco Gummi Yummy, one of the leading bands among young talent from the Pacific seas.

Everyone knows it's not enough to have musical and vocal chops, but you have to know how to put on a show. That bubblegum cute appeal draws crowds, but you better know how to work it. Maybe that's why Vulpix and Joy, the youngest of both groups, are the face of their bands. Both have the benefit of being adorable and fluffy, why do you think kittens are so popular? Vulpix has always dreamed of being an entertainer, but I wonder what Joy is getting out of this...

This was essentially inspired by this image, because it really reminded me of the kind of expression Joy would/has have/had. Likely because of her annoying sisters.

I made a re-vamp on my nidorina OC. She got through a rebel phase after a breakup. Also, Inktober. I recommend every fellow nido fan to participate!

Two happy Nido cooks, Arnie and Nidorina, who enjoy making food. The big difference is that Arnie does this for a living and tends towards making gourmet meats or otherwise fancy stuff. I designed the characters based off these ideas: Arnie = short and squat, and Nidorina = “child bearing cartoon mother”. Additionally, Nidoran male has a lot of points, so I sort of built him off of diamonds and sharp edges. Nidorina contrasts by having more curves, circles and rounded edges. The very first idea was more exaggerated and more rigid with shapes, but I wanted the characters to still look recognizable and not take it too far where they become an overstylized generic rabbit and some koala-mouse-rabbit (specifically aimed at Mrs. Nidorina) looking thing. I'd say the characters don't actually look like this (well, Arnie doesn't really).

You can view the rough version of this illustration here, and an overlay of the rough on top of the final here.

A bottle of Rosella Nanda perfume: 150 poke

Ms. Yamira's jewelry set: 700 poke

Leavania's Secret pair of dresses and feather boas: 2500 poke

Absolutely stunned (and hilarious) facial expressions of their escorts: priceless.

Yeah. That's the actual title. I'll give you a minute to figure it out, based on the picture. Figure it out? Well, the lesson is, if you aren't specific about what you want, you may end up with something silly and unexpected. However, that might actually be preferable. I didn't actually plan to draw this picture as shown, it just sort of happened. Nid is Nid's Nidoran, Vapek might be hers, or he might belong to another, but it's all good (I suppose like Blade Knight inc. and others weren't technically created by me). Nid is also a pretty long running Nido character. Not the longest running, of course, ahem.

Here's a color version of Flipside Skyline!

I went through the trouble of coloring it, but I kind of knew I wanted it monochrome from the very beginning.  At any rate, it was supposed to look like a single tone print in a very early newspaper or magazine, hence, again, my decision to go monochrome (though actually you get two colors). Anyway, It's interesting to think how much Alternate Nidorina has come into her own and grew to become her own entity, but even then, you can take Nidorina out of Nidorina, but you can't take the Nidorina out of Nidorina. Or something like that. As opposed to doing a more cliched "twinsies" picture, I decided to do something more fun, all while making a point. Even though AU Nidorina doesn't have any of her own children, she still loves interacting with them (or the good ones, as she puts it). They both like to get dressed for occasions, and sometimes for no real reason at all. And despite growing up in the woods like her predecessor, Dimensional Variant Nidorina is very much a city girl at heart. Tales Nidorina isn't so much a city woman as she is someone who just finds it such an amazing place to be with so much to do and so much to see, and enjoys visiting whenever she can. She's just less bored in the sticks.

Here's a "lights on" variant without a background. As you can see, Lisa's favorite colors are purple and yellow

Even though the minimum amount of sleep differs by age, at least seven hours is recommended. Additionally, try to keep a regular sleep schedule. You'll be much healthier for it.

Option B: What you get is a Nidorina who's a little closer to common appearance, but acts primarily like a human with furry reminders (that is, moments where you're reminded she's still some sort of non-human creature) here and there. If there was an Option C, it'd be Lisa, who looks like a common Nidorina by and large, but has no monster left in her. Interesting how backwards it turned out. That's just the way it is.

It's likely for the best this one turned out the way she did, because at the very beginning she was so much like her predecessor, Nidorina, that she might as well had been the exact same character. The further development of character has made her a lot more unique as time went on. As for the rest, you know the story. Spunky big sister yadda yadda yadda.

Nidorina is from Alternate Universe, and is also inspired by the Pokemon of the same name from my copy of Pokemon Silver.