#pokemon shadow box

[rapid-artwork]

I've been practicing a ton of Pokemon TCG shadow boxes lately.

They don't look super clean, but that's because I printed these on cardstock, since I don't want to waste actual cards on practice runs.

But they are starting to slowly look better and better. Once I get to a point where I am confident making these I'll start using real bulk cards, and maybe even open commissions. I still have a long way to go but these ones turned out alright!

[alyo]

My card creation.. Iono cards and other TCG products went into creating this piece, full of energy cards in the back and then using Journey Together packs and other products to create the rest of it. In the end, it's a great Iono piece that's available! Happy Journey Together release day!

[darktr1nity]

stay put, don't change. It's better this way

[shadowlinktheshadow]

mareep before I go to school

[gizmogearszz]

Friend Train bosses Kirby and Shadby!

Old art that I had completely forgotten to put on Tumblr

[tokyoteddywolf]

Meanwhile, deep in the Distortion Realm, a disturbance ripples the crystalline world of Gaia...

It seems that letters can be sent to the Giratinas that populate the Realm, while The Obsidian One is... busy.

Will you drop a letter through?

>Yes

>No

[lucid-daydreamer]

Another eevee ! This is the second of two Eevee boxes that i made for a client.

This card fought me every step of the way, i even had to start over completely lol!

[enigmaticspy]

[the-lightest-shadow]

I would like art requests please? Not overly picky on what I’d be drawing but there’s bonus points if it’s related to my hyperfixations (DSMP + AUs (especially my own), Minecraft, Cult of the Lamb, Mandela Catalague, and Generation Loss) or my favorite Nintendo franchises (Pokemon and Pikmin). Extra bonus points if it’s a crossover request. If you need to know more about my DSMP AUs at all just ask :>

(Tagging mentioned titles for higher audience as I don’t have the money to blaze, sorry)

Edit: and by "I'm not picky" I really do mean any non-bigoted request is allowed. Just go wild!

[rapid-artwork]

Probably my favorite shadowbox card art to date.

I felt worries about trapping all the work I did on Misty and the riverbed under a layer of plastic, but it turned out pretty cool. I am once again hit with the curse of "looks awesome in person but doesn't photograph well." But at least it still looks decent in the photos.

I included some in-process photos to show what it looks like without the layer of plastic, and the waves before their dried and turned clear.

It's fun to do full arts, even if I can't afford real ones just print these on cardstock.

[daraalegrano]

Here’s an Eevee shadow box commission for one of my friends!!! This one was super cute and fun to make :D

[gallusrostromegalus]

Im curious, how many people do you currently have explaining Pokémon at you?

So far just one, and very politely.

Apparently the Hexagon is the baby pokemon's D&D Stats, and my friend rolled straight 18's AND managed to get a cool feat off the randomly-picked chart :)

I do have a *general* grasp of how pokemon works, it's just that I also don't play videogames for ADHD/Carpal Tunnel/Vertigo reasons. Don't recc me games, it's very literally a hardware problem on both ends and something that has too high of an entry effort threshold for me to really enjoy- but I can watch other people enjoy them so I'm not so much a Pokemon fan as a Pokemon fandom fan. Love learning about shit third-hand, and like re-explaining it badly even more.

As best I understand it, Pokemon is a game about a futuristic Utopia where society is so safe and so free that it's perfectly reasonable for a 10-year old to just take their dog on the road and functionally become a biology research assistant/D&D Adventurer/Boxing coach to wild animals and nobody particularly worries about their saftey on the road beyond the normal hazards of camping. It's almost like the Federation in the original and Next Generation Star Trek- a meditation on the kinds of problems a post-scarcity egalitarian utopia actually would face. Star Trek posits that colonialism and imperialism cast long shadows not easily abated, and that post-scarcity eliminates many, but far from all interpersonal disputes. Pokemon posits that the biggest issues that society would face are gangs of bored teenagers getting Up To Shit and rats that can shoot lighting.

[saaltskies]

HI I NEED TO TALK ABOUT N’S ROOM

Okay, first of all this thing is nuts. When I entered it for the first time, I was shocked because I felt like I was in a different game and there was this creepy music and this feeling of wrongness and all that got even worse in the sequel with the music being all distorted and the lights being off and everything in a broken mess. It’s so unsettling. And it should be with all the implications this room has.

It’s a children’s room. A little kid might look at this room and think it’s great with all the bright colors and toys, but he was stuck in there until he was twenty. The lines from interacting with various items in there imply that he was living there recently. This wasn’t his childhood room, it’s his current one and it didn’t grow up with him. Plenty of adults including me have rooms full of stuff that might be considered childish like plushies for example, But that is very different because of agency in it. Most people get to choose the things in their room. They are interested in those things and it brings them joy. If someone outgrows an interest, they can just remove it from their room. N’s room was never updated. He was never allowed to explore and gain new interests as he grew. Ghetsis prepared a playroom that a little kid would love but never anything past that because it’s just a box to keep him in full of entertaining things to shut him up. There is no love in these gifts.

There are also goals with the infantilization N faces. Ghetsis isolates N, keeps him sheltered, and aims to preserve the childlike purity and innocence in him. a childlike innocence that makes him kind, makes him a hero, and makes him easy to control. He can’t grow up.

Once N fails him, Ghetsis calls him “nothing more than a warped defective boy”. He specifically calls him a boy. Ghetsis is the kind of person who would think of children as inferior and stupid so specifically using the word boy was definitely him comparing him to a child in a degrading and belittling way because of his view of children.

N’s room is referred to as his “world”, both in one of the shadow triad calling it the world that Ghetsis gave to him, and N saying that room was his whole world growing up. He wasn’t allowed to leave the castle until he was an adult and was crowned as king and then left to go explore the world and proselytize, and with the way things are worded it seems that he was barely allowed to leave that room either. He was stuck in this room almost his entire life. That is… not healthy. There were plenty of things to do and he had his sisters and pokemon in there all the time along with Ghetsis and the sages going in there a lot, but there’s no windows, there’s no bed, THERE’S NO BED. It’s not even a bedroom, it’s just a brightly colored prison.

I wonder if he ever had a bed. Maybe he had one at first but it was removed. Did he just not like using it and preferred sleeping on the floor because of his time living in a forest? Did Ghetsis take it away as punishment? He doesn’t even have blankets or pillows in there.

And there’s also the pokemon. He was surrounded by pokemon, but they were all pokemon that were previously abused that Ghetsis purposefully put him with to help drill the world view that humans only hurt pokemon and they need to be liberated. N described them as “Pokemon with their hearts shut so very tightly I couldn't even talk to them”.

He probably loved that room. He was abandoned as a child and lived in a forest before this. He was a kid trying to survive in the wild until a man showed up and took him in. He gave him a family, home, last name, and a purpose. He loved getting a last name so much he scribbled it into his basketball. As a kid, that was his home. It was familiar and comforting, but also the site of a lot of abuse. He can’t even bring himself to go in there anymore. What had before seemed like a fun and happy place to him is now small, stifling, and scary after seeing the world. He can’t bring himself to be in there anymore. He leaves immediately and waits for you outside. If you try to enter it again after leaving he says “There is nothing more of interest there. Let's keep moving”. You can’t go back in.

[lucid-daydreamer]

Foongus!

A recent foongus 3d comission! Gold border, etching on the top card, bonus glow in the dark mushrooms, I got to do so many fun things with this one. More to come!

[themissingnumbers]

[ @pkmn-monochrome - interaction thing i can't send as an ask bc long and images]

The dark of the Pokemon tower is never something that has bothered Red. Never something that would, certainly not after seeing much worse and being much older.

At this point, really, it's a kind of eeriness he'd come to miss. It reminds him of simpler times- days when a young boy only had to fear things like ghost stories, and shadows that lurked in the dark.

He knows very well that this place is not the Pokemon Tower he knew, of course. He's not stupid. This place was only built in its image, the miserable ending of a game dyed in grey and built out of spite.

He runs a hand along the wall of the staircase he descends, feeling the cold stone, yet also the intangible data, dull static and code under the fingertips. Watches in quiet fascination as the textures distort and corrupt under deliberate contact, the broken foundations of Generation 1 reacting to him, (same as always,) but a touch more stable from the fusion of the bastard remakes keeping it grounded.

Any damage caused is meaningless, the existence of it debatable as a whole, as he passes through a loading zone. Half of him watches everything fade to black, the other half just continues down the steps that are as tangible as anything else here is to someone within the game. Everything is right- just as it should be.

Either way, it's not like it's his game to break. That would be plain rude, especially with the risk of killing someone!

Intrigue in this world, curious as it may be, isn't why he's here.

Nah. He's more interested in something else.

Or, someone, to be more precise.

Having finally found who he'd looking for, Red steps off the stairs and into another layer of this endless graveyard, whistling as he finally lays eyes on a certain monochromatic individual.

"Y'know..." he chides from across the room, "A graveyard's a pretty cliche place to spend eternity, don't you think?"

He snorts at his own remark. "Course, I guess it's not like you had a choice. The sadsack that made this game could've picked something a little more outside the box, is all I'm saying. Do you think they'd bury bodies in the Viridian Forest, maybe? Or swimming offa Route 20, try a little watery grave... Oh, Champion's Road could be pretty morbid!"

He sighs and folds his arms, shaking his head at himself.

"... Nah, I'm joking. I can see the vision. I could give less of a shit about this place, anyways..."

His eyes gleam, and a menacing smile spreads across his face.

"I'm more interested in you. A glorified reskin of Pokemon Tower ain't shit compared to you. A little bug told me about some sentient Red-Leaf kinda amalgamation with the memories of a real person, and I just had to look into it and come to see for myself. Lo and behold..."

He spreads his arms out in some kind of almost-mocking grand gesture.

"Here you are! Cody, right? In the flesh, or... I suppose your problem is the lack thereof, heh."

He begins to approach, moving slowly and never once looking away. He stalks forward, every step careful and deliberate, teeth bared in a grin that holds no happiness but oozes with amusement.

"I've got so many questions, I don't even know where to begin. You're really something special... One of a kind, fully aware of everything. Knowing what life both here, and out there, is really like. I've seen players that would kill to even get a chance to stand where we do, but... You want out more than anything."

Scratching his chin, the man walks around them at a slight distance. Red gets the thought that Cody wouldn't want something like him anywhere near them. At least he can respect that.

"Suppose the courteous thing would be to ask a question- that's the tradition around these parts, right? Constantly interrogating you so you don't have to sit here, alone with your..."

His eyes flicker to the two GHOSTs at Cody's side.

"... Thoughts. And the like."

He hops onto a grave nearby, sitting with his ankles crossed. Respect towards the dead be damned, every tomb in places like this were about as sacred as Halloween decorations.

"Here's what I'd like to know, Cody."

His smile widens further- for a brief moment, the glitches on his body seem to spread to the air around him, cutting through the gray with burning streaks of red, white, and yellow.

"You have your hacker's memories. Some of them. ANY of them. It's enough. You'd know what it was like to be them. You know what it was like to be human. You know both worlds."

"What is it like? To be real? To be something more than code. How different is it from this?"

"What was it like to be HUMAN?"

He jabs a finger forward, pointing at them as the static that flared up around him quickly subsides, clearing the air back into the typical oppressive atmosphere of the endless graveyard.

"I want to hear it from you," he finishes cooly, "someone who has been on both sides of the screen. You could tell me better than anyone."

[sapphanimates]

THINGS I BOUGHT TODAY

1. ZIPPER PANTS. ZIPPER PANTS. EDGY 2000S ZIPPER PANTS. FOR SHADOW COSPLAY. ALSO LEATHERY ONES IN CASE THE ZIPPER PLAN FAILS.

2. gamestop finally had fucking pokemon cards for once so i got a pack of those and two fnaf mystery mini boxes. got nothing notable from the pokemon cards, but got withered freddy and puppet from the fnaf.

3. OLD LEATHER JACKET THAT I CAN SPRAY PAINT AND CUT UP AND STAPLE WINGS ONTO THE BACK OF. FOR SHADOW COSPLAY.

4. shorts from old navy because i needed some.

but there isn't a hot topic at the mall and im pissed off because the guy at that diner said there was one, but he was visiting from new jersey and didn't know which mall he was talking about SO I WENT TO WRONG ONE.