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NIDO Plus

It appears that these days, "The Big Three" have become "The Big Six", and I'll most likely cap it here. Nevertheless, Aqua Bunny wouldn't be half as interesting without the contributions of these characters in whatever entertainment medium they best reside in (and what they've inspired in other fans to create for themselves). In fact, I wouldn't run this site (STILL) if it was purely a site for Pocket-men facts and figures. I have a lot of fun with these Nidorina, but that's no slight towards the other family members (the everyman Nidorino, the other loafer Nidorino, and Ms. Nakamura, a pleasant but busy bee of a Nidoqueen to name a few). In appreciation of these characters, here's a bright, candy colored pic for you, full of happy smiling Nidorina (Charlotte's not unhappy...)

Which one is your favorite?

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NIDO Plus (Full Size ver.)

The original image is the "legit" version, which looks similar to a CD insert (like Love and Peace). However, in order to crop it at that size, I had to work from a larger source. Here's what it looks like before the editing phase. You may even prefer the fullness of this one instead!

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31 Days of Pokemon - December 2013

MUCH larger version here.

Created for a Tumblr marathon known as POKEDDEXY. The point was to draw each of your favorite Pokemon of each type, and then some as you'll see down the line. I didn't actually finish it until January, 2014, due to a late start, other obligations, and the fact that a portion of the art actually has some thought in it rather than really fast doodles. Well, of course I was gonna want to use them later, might as well make them at least half-presentable. This picture was created in the style of Pop'n Music/Rhythmic Pop'n.

Patterns from webtreats ETC. Also, inspired by an official piece of PNM promo art, so there's some similarities.

I'm still taken aback by the fact that there's Pokemon beyond Generation III in this picture. Gosh, who'da thunk it? There's also a bit of cosplay for those of you who also revel in obscure Japanese fun n' games, and just for kicks, two extras decided to... Pop'n... for a cameo (who won't be pictured otherwise). :D Not ashamed of that, nope.

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December 31th (Option A) - Nidorina

I hope no one's surprised. Nidorina will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be replaced as my all time favorite. Too many years in the running that can't be undone. The hardest part was actually choosing WHICH Nidorina, because there's two I like most. So for the benefit of Nidorina kind (and bias), I did both.

Option A: What you get is a slightly more wild animal-like Nidorina traded against the fact that she doesn't wear the face of a common Nidorina. If I were to use TvTropes' Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism, she sits in between Funny Animal and Civilized Animal. You should know enough about her otherwise. Loves kids, food, Nidorino, don't mess with her kids, or else she'll become downright psychotic.

Nidorina is from Poke Tales.

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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.

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Flipside Skyline Color Version

Here's a color version of Flipside Skyline!

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Classiest Yin-Yang

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.

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Now You're Cooking!

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.

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Six in Shadow

Making sure the character designs are still all different. Chibi-Chibi looks unintentionally terrifying.

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Nidorina 2x

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