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Крылья, крылья... Ноги! by Calcatrix

After seeing what Game Freak did to Zapdos in Pokemon Sword/Shield I remembered an old USSR cartoon called Крылья, ноги и хвосты (“Wings, legs and tails”). It’s a rather bizarre crude looking short cartoon about an ostrich who showed a vulture that legs are better than wings. With new Zapdos essentially being made an ostrich and running really fast in the game a picture like this was a given. After quite a long time in my list of ideas I decided to commission this piece from a pretty much unknown artist Calcatrix, because you need to support lesser known artists, especially local ones.

Her links:

• VK: https://vk.com/calcatrix_18 (primary, she’s most active here)
• FurAffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/calcatrix/ (less up to date)
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/calcatrix1 (less up to date)
• Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/calcatrixart (not really helpful to Russian artists anymore)
• Furry Network: https://furrynetwork.com/calcatrix/ (looks abandoned)

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I’ve had an idea of having a sticker pack for a number of years. It took quite a while to assemble a list of reactions to include in the pack, but when I finally did (and also had money to spare) I commissioned Nix to draw me one. It has 30 stickers (was supposed to be 31, but one is missing as I’m still trying to find a reference for it), although actual reactions take only about half of the pack. The other half is effects of Thalasin.

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A little while ago I was thinking about possible ideas for commissions. One of them was my pokesona as a Postal Dude, because I love Postal game series. But I didn’t want to commission ZiPo for that, I think his art style wouldn’t fit the theme, even though he likes Postal games as well. Nix was out of the question too, I mean, come on, cute Postal Dude? I needed something more crude. And artists I didn’t know personally wouldn’t be too happy with my lack of a reference sheet. But it so happens that my friend Jim has just the right style.

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Back in May, during a Friday evening I was having some beer as I tend to (when I’m not on medication) while watching Markiplier’s sonic.EYX video. I liked how Tails looked there, or rather I felt a strong urge to comfort him. That’s how I came up with a prompt for this commission. ZiPo was glad he finally had an excuse to draw Tails because he had been wanting to for a while. I still had to wait almost five months because life happened, but here it is.

Originally ZiPo didn’t draw the sneakers because his reference images didn’t have them. I don’t know why he used these particular images or how it happened to be barefoot Tails, but I kinda liked how he drew the paws, so I asked to add the sneakers as an additional version rather than the only one.

Yandere Twilight Sparkle for fsLeg by Nix

This one is pretty straightforward: my pokesona looks lovingly at yandere Twilight who’s in a schoolgirl outfit. Done, of course, by Nix. Did I mention I absolutely love yanderes? Although just the obsessive types, not the possessive ones.

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Terriermon and Glaceon by ZiPo

For the longest time I had one avatar: a Terriermon with byakugan, a spiked collar and a tattoo. ZiPo came up with it for me after I told him how much I liked Terriermon from Digimon Tamers. But in 2016 I came up with a pokesona, Glaceon, an OC I could call my own. This is my attempt to show they are the one and same - me. I liked duality images kinda like this one from Poor Yorick, so I wanted something like that. ZiPo proposed the idea of a broken mirror and a butter knife which I liked. The mirror also means that the image is flipped, so the tattoo on Terriermon’s head is on the wrong side and reversed. Anyway, the result looks cool as fuck.

Detective Pikachu by Nix

Among other images I commissioned Nix with there was Detective Pikachu in noir style: his partner was shot, his wife left him and took the kids, he is drunk half the time etc… You know, Detective Pikachu from the game, not the movie. At least the original voice and the fact that Pikachu wasn’t at all agile made me think of such image. Actually, while I was waiting for her to finish (which took some time), someone made an entire animation of basically what I wanted to see.

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A commission I asked for half a year ago. I saw giant ears of a gigantamaxed Cinderace and thought of Terriermon, so I asked ZiPo to draw Terriermon who painted himself to look like Cinderace. He instead made Terriermon only paint the yellow parts, the rest of the Cinderace’s design is made up by a skarf and a pair of socks, which is fine by me. The version with no paint blotches was a bonus. The artwork also has two easter eggs I somehow managed to notice right after waking up.

Fighting UcoZ by Nix

Nearly 3 years ago I was working on something for a website I admin. I don’t remember what I was doing, but it was very frustrating because the said website uses UcoZ CMS. It’s actually a pretty good general purpose free (with lots and lots of ads until you pay them) CMS for people that don’t really know how to manage a website. Nobody likes the fact we have to use UcoZ, but at this point migration to a “real” CMS would be pointless, so we clench out teeth and deal with it. Besides, usually I’m the one who is frustrated with UcoZ the most, since I manage the technical part of the website, nobody else has any problem with it. Also the website is pretty much dead, but at least I keep it functioning. Anyway, I was doing something, got frustrated and commissioned Nix to draw my pokesona unleashing his rage upon UcoZ. I had no idea how to portray a CMS, and it seems she decided to just use their logo.

Что делал слон, когда пришёл Вапореон? by Nix

Quite some time ago I was reminiscing about an episode from a show called Yeralash, specifically “Что делал слон?”. I was also thinking about pokemon, then it struck me, that the word “Napoleon” sounds very similar to “Vaporeon”. So I commissioned Nix to watch the aforementioned episode and draw pretty much the main joke from it, except featuring Vaporeon.

P.S.: It’s been a long time since I used Hugo, thank gods I wrote a documentation for the theme I made, otherwise I’m not sure I would’ve been able to post another entry properly.