bugmaniacbob
Was fun while it lasted
More reposts from CAP Art thread:
Final Submission
Final Submission
Also some stuff I screwed around withFinal Submission
Supporting Artwork
Alternate, and probably better, pose. Worth seeing for that other angle.
Sketch Moves: Sacred Fire, Slash, Dragon Claw
Sketch Moves: Crunch, Earthquake, Shadow Ball.
Everything Else
When looking for an ideal model for a Grass/Ghost type, I immediately thought of the Stinking Corpse Lily, Rafflesia arnoldii. Unfortunately, this was already a Pokemon by name of Vileplume; however, I had another in mind. Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, corpse flower, or "huge misshapen penis flower". It is the largest flower in the world, and possibly my favourite plant of all time. With the base intact, I decided to make it more than a simple eerie-looking plant thing (otherwise it would arguably have been inclined more as a Poison-type). I initially had the idea of a Ghost trapped inside the plant, as my earlier concepts suggested, but then I integrated the two parts further to form a finished product. The ectoplasm and the vines still combine as I enjoy their effect.The ectoplasm that controls [CAP2]'s body and vines can assume different shapes depending on what [CAP2] is thinking. Hence it can broadly "Sketch" in its mind a move that it has seen in the past. As the art would suggest, this can take the form of anything it has seen once - For example, it seems to take the form of Ho-oh for Sacred Fire, or Scyther's blade for Cut, with the ectoplasm also converting to the element it is copying. However, because it's a bit thick, it can only ever remember one move in its life. This trait is not natural to [CAP2] and is only triggered when interbred with Smeargle.It's a smelly plant possessed by a Ghost that looks like a willy.
It was never an interpretive dance instructor in a previous life, it is not out for revenge against all the evil in the world, it is not worshipped as a deity by unspecified ethnic backgrounds, it does not reference anything that may or may not have happened in the past, it does not happen to have some sort of unbelievable power that is inconsistent with its in-game performance, it does not do anything peculiar with eels' eyeballs, and it does not have an irrational hatred towards Delibird.