Baneslinger!

Nintendo recently revealed the starter pokemon for their upcoming pokemon game (this will be the fifth generation of the pokemans to date).  Once again, they’re grass, fire, and water types.  We know what they look like at the start, now all that is left is to wonder what they will look like when they evolve.

And that’s where the fun begins.  So it’s time to take up the computer tablet, and dream up the final versions of these three pokemon.

First up is the Grass type Tsutarja:

Being inspired by a snake, the Grass/poison would seem like a clear route for this pokemon’s evolutions.  But we already have two poison snake pokemons, and a ton of grass/poison combinations.  The most interesting end that I can imagine with this pokemon is a Grass/dragon type.  It would be doubly weak to ice, but it would lose it’s weakness to fire.  Plenty other starters have had a double weakness as well, so it’s not like it will stop Nintendo.

For this design, I took the yellow curls and morphed them into wings. Grass starters also have the tendency to “bloom” and I thought the flower on the end was an interesting touch for the evolution.

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College friend (and “Never You Mind” co-conspirator) Laurie recently married resident cool-guy Todd.

In traditional Daniel fashion, I didn’t bother to get them their gifts until after their wedding. But in my defense, I did order them before the ceremony.  Giving it to them now gave me an excuse to visit them both.

Either way, both Todd and Laurie are big fans of World of Warcraft, and this led for an opportunity for a gift so great and impractical that no sane person would purchase it for themselves.

So Meet Korg Highmountain:

Ah, he looks very stately sitting on our old table from our college apartment (complete with bamboo place mats)…

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Usually, I try to finish a comic within 1-2 hours.  However, doing “No Reservations” actually took a lot longer than usual to complete.  I thought it might be nice to share with you some of the process that it sometimes requires to create a Baneslinger comic.

Don’t worry, it’s a sketch comic so it won’t take too long.

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What good is a bonus comic if it isn’t dumb?

I’ve been wanting to practice my art with wolves.  It takes me time to correctly draw their legs, and the esoteric aspects of their anatomy remains a mystery to me today.  So, I thought I might practice by drawing an animation.  I took a clip from a movie on YouTube and traced as many frames as the pause button could reveal.

The animation is barely over a second long, but it does manage to give you the illusion of a wolf running.  Now, the wolf was mostly black, and rather blurry, so I made some amateurish mistakes (Namely confusing the front legs).  In the video, the wolf was running in the snow, so that led to the legs being cut off from time to time.

It’s not all that good, but it’s also not all that bad for  a first try.

Click past the jump to see the animation.

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