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critterbitter · 17 days

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‘Pologies for the lack of updates! I’m currently working through a multitude of projects to get that bread, so I’ll be on hiatus until mid june.

If you want to see my character design nonsense and fancy schmancy commission work (which I will be posting daily until I run out or collapse), feel free to drop by my instagram!

#critterbitter screams into the void #life update!#oh to be paid…#no submas content until i get my work done :(

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critterbitter · 17 days

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The trio! Sketch commissioned by @mynamesaplant. Thank you so much for the chance to draw my favorite guys, hehhe.

(Speedpaint below cut!)

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critterbitter · 1 month

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(Shh, i know rental pokemon aren’t a thing in BW2, but counterpoint: i refuse to speedrun the nimbasa poke team. And also i REALLY want to draw galarian and kantonian ponyta.

I like to imagine rental pokemon are pokemon who sign a contract to competitive sports, and in return for their cooperation they get free exp, items, and even tms. Thinking about how pokemon mystery dungeon teams work, mmm.)

Black City my beloved! It’s a perfect place to hang if you love competitive pokemon battling.

Masterlist for more pokemon nonsense!

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critterbitter · 2 months

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I halt the train to bring you some STICKERS!

But hark! They are not the only stickers that are available! Check out:

Hosted by @cecilioque !

These bad boys are a limited run and for 20 bucks you too can have 50+ stickers, and at least half of them would be about the funny train men! The other half of this sticker pack is about Unova (and we all love and cherish Unova).

Here’s a bonus archeops, getting bribed to the photoshoot.

#in all of seriousness ty sunny for putting this together #the sheer amount of work that goes into running a collab like this is incredible #submas #crustle #axew #eelektross #kliklank #joltik #durant #stickers #emmet #subway boss emmet #art #myart #sticker #collab #pokemon #pkmn art #pokemon art

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critterbitter · 2 months

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It’s a bit scary to think about the future, but with friends it’s a tad easier.

Masterlist of the pokemon shenanigans.

Also hehe… parallelism. It’s the squad’s “im about to plan mischief” pose.

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critterbitter · 2 months

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Route 1, but it’s after the rains and spring has come, blanketing the grassy hill with flowers.

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critterbitter · 2 months

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The Dreamyard’s the singed ruins of the once Pokemon Energy Labratory. About five years ago, this swath of land was left abandoned due to dangerous levels of psychic energy saturating the air. Today, it serves as a Munna and Musharina nest, and is slowly being reopen to the public as a conservation site.

Are the children in awe of the Dreamyard’s fridge horror history? Probably not. Are they enjoying themselves in the spooky abandoned ruins? Definitely.

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critterbitter · 2 months

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Revisiting relatives at chargestone cave! Here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s-

Anyways I like to imagine chargestone cave’s magnetic fields are so strong it causes rock islands to float and gravity to get a tad funky. Or maybe it’s due to the thinning barrier between the material world and the distortion world…

Master list for more pokemon shenanigans!

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critterbitter · 3 months

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Thinking about pokemon teams helping coparent… ahh.

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critterbitter · 3 months

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Spring has come! And with it, the deerling and sawsbuck in their full floral regalia.

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critterbitter · 3 months

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Welcome to Relic Passage! Help your local roggenrola, and the local gigalith are bound to help in turn. Though a few berries and some axel grease really does sweeten the deal…

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critterbitter · 3 months

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Tis the season on Twist Mountain! Elesa, from Sinnoh, happily tromps around in the cold. Emmet remains undefeated champion of snowball fights. Ingo shivers his way across the clearing.

Look at em go!

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critterbitter · 3 months

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I finally got all my brain ducks into enough of a row to send this! I just wanted to say that Tumblr recommended your art to me on a whim, and I am actually OBSESSED now lol. I had no prior investment in Submas or anything tangentially related to it prior to this (aside from liking Pokémon generally lol), but I couldn’t help but tear through everything you’ve drawn for these silly little rat children and I love them so much now!!! I wanna pick them up and shake him around like little action figures! The shenanigans and the heartfelt moments are just,, UGH so good! I have no words! Thank you for the food I am going FERAL over them <3

Your art is also high key goals for me now tbh. I absolutely ADORE your coloring and rendering style, and also they way you draw Pokémon in general?? Very animalistic but still recognizably Pokémon?? Literally galaxy brained. I’m going to SCREAM. I know you already posted a bit of your art process, but I’d love to know if you’ve got any rendering tips and/or how you get that clean but sketchy look. It looks so good I want to eat it lol.

(Also I really love the way you’ve been formatting Elesa’s dialog, with the extra lines around the letters. It really gives the vibe that her grasp on Galarian is currently shaky at best and idk, I like that you’ve managed to find a way to convey that over text. I think that’s pretty cool :D)

I SAW YOU REBLOG A WHOLE BUNCH AND IM,,, (throwing hearts at you)

Thank you so so much! I’m glad you love these terrible little guys wandering Unova just as much as I do, haha!

As a treat, lemme pull out some drafting for the mini illustrations. I usually start every snapshot with a run down of what I remember from the area, possible shenanigans encountered, and then a doodle of ideas to come.

From there, it’s a SUPER rough sketch, followed by lineart and rough color, and then cleanup!

(More thumbs and their finals below!)

At the end of the day, all my lines are VERY sketchy. I’m a lot stronger when it comes to mashing colors. That, and if you set your line layer from normal to multiply, the lines will always be automatically darker then whatever layer is placed underneath. It’s a trick used quite a bit for placing cel shadows in animation, but it’s useful for lineart in a pinch.

For colors, I like to stick to a limited pallet and branch out only after setting my primary colors. This entire series has been very experimental for me though, as you can probably tell.

As for the last bit— YES… YOU GET IT! As Elesa grows, the lines in her dialogue will start appearing less and less. It’s the little things that map the span of time for these guys.

Yippee!

#ask #mailbox #aah… scared to respond to my inbox because there r so MANY asks but #this one’s asking for tips and i love getting on my soapboxes #and also the sheer amount u reblogged??? holy shit okay if ur gonna put the effort so shall i!!#ANYWAYS!#critterbitter screams into the void #critterbitter

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critterbitter · 3 months

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Driftveil city, home to moomoo milk drinks, beautiful sunsets, and a thriving port— and the best music bw has to offer (in my humble opinion).

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critterbitter · 3 months

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Did you know route 10 has a history of landslides? I like to think that this route has always been a point of contention within Unova’s pokeleague, especially with such crumbly cliffs so close to their victory road.

(Anyways the Patrat and Pachirisu children find out the hard way about Route 10’s… unfortunate quirks.)

((On the plus side! Behold! A bouffalant calve!))

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critterbitter · 3 months

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Some silly light hearted fun at Flocessy Ranch! Always thought it was wild you can meet wild Riolu just hanging out in the tall grass.

As for that dwebble following them… everybody’s aware of their little passenger. My guy just wants to collect rocks and live in Blitzle’s saddle like a pocket friend. Litwick’s terrorizing them, like some sort of territorial cat.

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critterbitter · 3 months

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Undella bay, home to a variety of ocean pokemon, beach shenanigans, and the biggest bane to the patrat twin’s existence yet— hungry wingulls.

The local pokemon are used to people challenging them. Still amusing when it’s two children an eighth of their size doing so, though.

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