A Totally Sweet Fan Pokémon.  1999.  Nostalgia Monday.

Wow, you guys were really on about seeing my old pokémon fanart!

This was probably my first digitally colored picture, done in some terrible photo-retouching program that doesn’t exist anymore and probably came free with our scanner.  Pokémon Red and Blue had just been released in the states and there was a contest being put on by a fansite to design a fourth legendary bird.  I either placed first or second and won like four packs of Pokémon cards and that was just about the coolest thing that’d ever happened to me.  At the very least, it was the first time I’d seen any sort of payoff for my art.

Actually now that I think about it, this was a really important picture.