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SO I WENT AND SCANNED EVERYTHING! Except for the comic, which was too large for the scanner I was using.

This was featured in Angeltower Page’s first layout (2004). Ah, memories.

Watercolors for the Crystal Storm Version (December 2004). I don’t know what’s that grey thing behind Espeon, I suspect it may be duct tape residual. It does look like crap, though.

That Absol was beside the tagboard, I don’t remember about the Mewtwo though.

The Blaziken wasn’t part of the drawings for the layout, I used it for a wallpaper.

Drawings for the Sunrise Dream Version (March 2005).

Why did I ever stop working with watercolor? D:

This is that self-portrait I told you about in the previous entry. I was fifteen here. I need to make another one for comparison. Now I’d say I look…older, perhaps? As weird as it may sound.

New artworks:

Gift for Amy. :) Gabumon has an interesting design, by the way.

I’m not really one for going abstract but I told Pegaso I would give him some material for his graphic artworks so here there is Waves on Jupiter. I happen to quite like the result.

I timed it, 5 seconds. The bone on the left foot is actually like that due to a trauma. You hid behind the proverbial finger of the so-called constructive criticism, so I cannot be happier to shoot straight with my constructive gtfo. :)

30+ IN CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY FUCK YEAH. Especially because much of this success was determined by me making a large painting inspired from the work of Francis Bacon. The teacher was so impressed he even gave me a free book. So apparently my childish and anatomically impossible drawings are worth a 30+ and a free book. In your ass. :>

Even though I shouldn’t be taking such people too seriously, maybe I should really try and write down my views on art, especially as to why I deliberately choose to draw roughly and mostly ignoring anatomy. It’s not like I’m not able to make beautiful realistic drawings, you know. I just found a bunch of old stuff including a self-portrait I drew at fifteen and man, it does look nice. I’ll be scanning all that old stuff from 2004-2005 - those drawings that got lost with the HD failure and some which went lost ages before that (including the Sneasel pic who graced the very first layout of Angeltower Page). I’m also rescanning my old Pokémon comic whose pages seem to be currently located in the dark side of the interwebs - I even found some unpublished pages, so you may be in for a surprise.

And talking about comics, I’d really like to make another Pokémon comic. I’ve already been planning it out. It will be a comic divided in three or four short episodes each one focusing on a different aspect of the relationship between Pokémon and people.
The first one will take place before Pokémon and people became two different species and it will be about a little girl and his grampa. The old man discovers he can keep his niece’s life energy in a ball he created out of an Apricorn, so they play together with this toy - except that, with the passing of time, the old man becomes more and more scared of his child outgrowing their game, and ends up becoming eerily obsessive…
The second one will take place in the present and will be about a Trainer and a Fearow who fall in love for each other, thus compromising the whole training system and posing some interesting question on their relationship.
The third one will be about a “real world” girl playing Pokémon and getting emotionally attached to the creatures.
I do seem to have a predilection for real weird stuff. In case you were asking. :P

Also, I just got approved for the making of the Fearow fanlisting! Yeah Fearow. It took me a whole ten years to understand its greatness |D Sneasel is sticking to the position of favorite Pokémon ever, then Mewtwo, Porygon-Z and Fearow in no particular order. The fanlisting’s name will be Soaring Dread and it will feature an illustration of mine in the layout. I PROMISE IT’S GOING TO LOOK NICE

As for the new Hall of Changes layout I changed idea three times, then got what looks like my best layout ever. It looks so awesome that I cannot believe it was me to create it. It will feature Samus and the Orion Nebula! What can possibly go wrong? :D

Anyway, this post was really about…ME SINGING KAZE TO ISSHO NI. DUN DUN DUUUN. I would have posted Niji ga Umareta Hi too but the laptop mic wouldn’t record the high-pitched scream at the end which was supposed to show my leet singing skillz. Hahaha. As you will have understood by now, the recording is quite low-quality, but I’m so awesome so it should not be a problem. SARCASM.
Here’s the recording. My voice does sound weird in places but that’s because by the “ikutsomono deai, ikutsumono wakare” I was crying like a baby. Kaze to Issho Ni always gets to me. :<

Let me end this entry with my latest weird dream. Involving me saving a beautiful woman with long fair hair by a number of weird situations throughout some really colorful and detailed worlds. And having hot sex with her afterwards. Ten times. And because this dream was half-lucid, I could make her boobs larger whenever I wanted to. My dreams are, indeed, better than yours. Live with it. XD

STOLEN FROM IRENE
except she only tackled the anime ops, but I’m an even bigger Pokémon dork than her so HAHAH NO IRENE JUST KIDDING, JUST KIDDING

Anime openings

5. Spurt! - It somehow remembers me of the early nineties’ anime openings, so energetic
4. Ready Go! - It makes me smile :) Also nice vocals
3. Together - Maybe a bit cheesy, but I still like the overall sound. Also the lyrics are so fun :D
2. Battle Frontier - I LOVE THIS SO MUCH and even more so in the Eiga Version (sorry, no Youtube link). I used to listen to it a lot a few years ago. I even remember a few rather embarrassing mishearing games with my sister 8′D
1. Mezase Pokémon Master ‘98 - I’m linking to the Myuutsuu no Gyakushuu version rather than the original anime opening because it’s the one I grew with. I love this to pieces, I know all the lyrics by heart, also Rica Matsumoto is friggin’ awesome.

Anime endings

5. Polka O Dolka - HILARIOUS. Also I love how they’re actually saying PORUKA O DORUKA
4. Gizamimi Pichu Song - I LIKE THE GIZAMIMI PICHU SONG. SO WHAT?
3. Nyaasu no Uta - SO CUTE.
2. Type: Wild! - Rica Matsumoto again! This song reminds me of Oli, wonder what she’s up to now. Also it begins with Kaze to Issho ni :D
1. Soko ni Sora ga Arukara - Try to deny it, this is beautiful.

Movie endings

I only like three of them.
3. Niji ga Umareta Hi - The singer is just so incredible. Also, once I managed to sing it! You may not know it, but I’m actually decent at singing. Maybe I should record myself singing this?
2. Chiisaki Mono - The vocals are amazing.
1. Kaze to Issho ni - In my opinion, the best Pokémon song ever. Wonderful lyrics, wonderful music. Also yes, the little girl singing is Ai. You have no idea how much I love this.

THESE ARE THE DRAWINGS I MADE WITH IRENE THE OTHER DAY

Our absolute favorites! My Sneasel is ugly but Irene’s Toxicroak kicks ass :O

Our favorite legendaries. Irene was drawing a Giratina in the beginning and I went all I THOUGHT IT WAS DARKRAI and since she kept getting Giratina wrong anyway she changed to Darkrai, haha
Mewtwo does not approve of Darkrai’s (invisible) boobs.

Our favorite bird Pokémon, they actually look like they’re fighting! While we were drawing this some kids came over and said IT’S A MULCHCRAW, IT’S A FEEFAHON and we were all what

My Houndoom is all high and mighty

I cannot remember why we even drew them in the first place but seriously, that’s a huge Absol. Or a tiny Arceus, your call.
ABOUT THE ROCK IN THE MIDDLE:
Irene: Why didn’t you draw Absol’s other leg? Fill in the empty space with, I don’t know, a rock?
dubiousdisc: Here’s a rock. *draws a rock*
Irene: This rock is a Geodude! *draws eyes and mouth*
dubiousdisc: But he’s disguising himself as a rock, so he’ll have a sign saying, “I’m a rock”. *draws the sign*

WE HAD SOME FUN

but I also have other stuff!

If I were a character in a fantasy world (Oblivion?), I’d be like this. With bow and arrows and daggers, no, poisoned daggers! I’d be a rogue-type character basing on speed and agility rather than brute force, so I’d be equipped with light armor; but because I’d anyway be wanting to kick people right in the face, I’d be covered in spikes to hurt them more. However, I’d be completely devoid of any magic power because seriously, try to imagine ME shooting fireballs and thunders from my hands, I’d look very silly in the least. I KNOW I GET WAY TOO INVESTED IN THIS STUFF LEAVE ME ALONE

I spent the other evening with a special friend of mine. Two friends of him came over; I ended up talking about Pokémon and stuff with one of them and he asked me to draw some. My friend even brought me his old sticker album to give me some references :)
I tend to prefer Charmeleon over Charizard because of the latter having a lame design but hey, I like how this turned out. also I was asked for it so um

These were quite random but they still look good somehow

I think my ability to draw with a single line depends entirely on how confident I feel.

This was made the following day, when me and my friends were having a quite interesting discussion. I won’t openly talk about who this friend is as I haven’t yet shown him my sites and don’t know how he feels about that, but well. He’ll see as soon as I decide to not be an idiot for once.
This wingless mecha-bird is way smaller than it looks - about a third of an A5 paper, smaller than my hand.

there was something else but I forgot

THIS WAS ONE HELL OF A DAY

I went with Irene at the Pokémon Event in Milan’s Science and Technology Museum. It was about giving away Shaymin and showing the 11th movie but hey, I was there for the gadgets and all the Pokémon nerds

and believe me, there was PLENTY of both. We came that the event hadn’t even begun and there already was a line which was so long it went all across the square in front of the museum and kept going on in the street. Amazing. Plus I think I spotted a person I used to be very close friends with when I was fourteen or the like. And he lives in my hometown in southern Italy, about 900 kms away from Milan. Yeah, I thought I was just imagining things, but I saw his little sister and dad too. Very awkward. Then we got in, and I never saw them again. WHAT.

This was taken right away when we got there, so just think about how crowded it got later. we took some keychains, a Giratina figure (the one Italy didn’t get on the preorders because we just have to suck), a balloon, oh and Shaymin too. I couldn’t get any because of me owning the US versions but I couldn’t really care less. also, there was a silly game in which the kids had to answer some Pokémon-related questions with animal cries or something like that and we were seriously considering getting in as SKUNKS. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME

then I got all electrified and decided to call Jeel to join us in the awesomeness but he wasn’t there to answer so I called Cercatesori instead. He was chilling out on the beach, but Irene’s better than the sea! :O
then we decided to draw epic Pokémon battles on my sketchbook and they were epic indeed.
KIDS WERE CHEERING
I must scan them asap

MEET THE LEGEND
PFFT I SAY
WE ARE THE TRUE LEGENDS.

then we went to the cinema and waited for the movie to begin, we had some fun in the Union Room and it was actually sweet to draw together until some douchebag came in and began erasing everyone’s drawings and writing “:°°°°D”. Ah, the Internet morons. Someone’s needing a heavy spanking here. Assholes >(
Then we watched Giratina and the Sky Warrior and woah. I wasn’t expecting anything great but it turned out to be a fine movie indeed. If just they cut out all those crappy CG cinematics and kept going traditional all the way, because some backgrounds and visuals were actually pretty amazing, especially on a big screen. I have a newfound respect for Shaymin now because he’s such a dick and I like that in a Pokémon. Best part, Shaymin screaming like he was being butt-raped and Brock going “IT’S REALLY HUGE!” in such a voice lol, I was laughing so hard I couldn’t even breathe
also it was only me or Zero and Newton do have quite a shipping thing going on? they had some scenes in which I couldn’t help but wonder. Also Newton was such an adorable dork :>
Seriously though it was a beautiful movie with a nice story. I almost cried at the end and this is coming from miss tougher-than-a-sailor so :(

then we went off to explore the museum since the visit was free for us and it was pretty cool, there were some awesome things on display:

A BOAT

A VAPOREON-POWERED LOCOMOTIVE
fuck yes there were boats and planes and trains and

I’ve been meaning to do that since forever and now it’s one thing less my before-I-die list

GOD I’M IN LOVE WITH THOSE THINGS

Irene is superior and sexier than those trains.

I dare you to look wackier than this.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, A MAGMARIZER!

then we went back to the Pokémon section and omg, are those shirts? we ran to get ours and we got the VERY LAST ONES. GOD.
we put them on (missing my only chance to look at Irene’s boobs XD) and then

IT KICKS ASS
even if it’s ridiculously huge, ok I like shirts to be large but this is too much even for me, lol
also this shirt confused many a kid, they thought we were of the staff and hahaha

IRENE’S LOOT and mine too but whatever
the Giratina figure is fantastic
fun fact: I got wounded while trying to open the keychain’s bag. SUDDENLY, BLOOD ON MY FINGERS I’m such a disaster

it was mid-afternoon when we finally got to eat. I hadn’t eaten anything since the previous evening and I was quite hungry :O we had a nice meal with ZUKANS
Irene got the Feraligatr she wanted and I got Entei and RAIKOU :D

it was awesome man
also, check out Irene’s version too

Gift for PKergirl :) Again, game palette plus two more colors. I’m considering to make sprites out of some of my drawings, too :O these are so fun to make
As for Spenser with Fearow it’ll probably take some more time as the Ranger sprite palette utterly sucks and I’ll have to make a better one myself.

For Majo, inspired by T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land; A3 size.

Fun fact: this was actually supposed to fill a whole A4 sheet. I colored it and all, then went away; when I got back I noticed how out of proportion it was and cut away the lower half of the drawing. Also, her boobs weren’t large enough :|

This looks so much better in real life, you can’t even imagine. Much more colorful, also here you can’t really see the detail of the green body feathers. Man, am I needing a decent scanner. Anyway, this means a lot to me. If you were asking: yes, the model is me - just with a different hair color.

As for my other projects: I’m making a fanlisting for Fearow :D how could I not notice how awesome it is for so many years. FEAROWWW
its name will be “Soaring Dread” and its layout will be sky blue with a drawing I’m going to make myself as there appears to be a shortage of decent Fearow pics

I’m also making a screenshot gallery for Dark Claws but it will take some time. I still have…five episodes and a movie to download. I should also get to buy the Sneasel TCG cards and the new plushies and figures, well, it’d help if I had a camera to begin with. I never noticed how little stuff I actually own until I had to move out two weeks ago; all my stuff could stay in two suitcases, two bags and two boxes, and it mostly was my Pokémon plushies and my art stuff. Unbelievable.

If you hadn’t noticed the note on Blind Dreaming’s index, I’m also making a new layout for the Hall of Changes. It’s going to have a huge top image on a dark carmine background and a reddish-gray content box. I still have to decide what I’m going to put in the top image though, but I think I’ll end up with Samus again or something Pokémon-related. It’s a fanlisting collective, after all, IT HAS TO DISPLAY MY OBSESSIONS

Also, I put online a little something on Blind Dreaming. Don’t ask if you don’t see nothing, it either means you’re not paying attention or you can’t just because of your screen. I don’t know, sometimes I have weird ideas.

in-game palette except for two extra tones, pixelover is mostly accurate (Volkner’s eyes and chain are different, Flint has some extra details)

may make Spenser with Fearow later just for kicks, and maybe the Go-Rock Quads too? I had lots of fun with these, so if you’d like to see a pixelover of any official picture or of a fan art you made, go on and ask me, I’ve got some time to waste

not been updating here because of sudden chaos in life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m feeling great, it’s just that SUDDEN CHAOS, boom

HOWEVER, POKÉMON MEME. STOLEN FROM GUESS WHO? IRENE THAT’S RIGHT

1. Who is your favorite Pokémon?
Absolute favorite: Sneasel
Kanto/Generation I: Mewtwo and Fearow
Johto/Generation II: Sneasel (duh)
Hoenn/Generation III: Absol maybe? there’s a lot of them which I adore (Sableye, Aggron, Altaria…)
Sinnoh/Generation IV: Porygon-Z
Grass starter: Torterra
Fire starter: Blaziken
Water starter: Blastoise
Eeveelution: Flareon maybe? I actually like all of them in the same measure
Legendary Pokémon: Mewtwo
Starter in basic form: Bulbasaur
Starter at stage 2: Charmeleon and Grovyle
Starter at Stage 3: Blaziken

2. Why do you like your absolute favorite?
it’s a DARK WEASEL WITH HUGE CLAWS
although thinking of it heh, Sneasel is one of those Pokémon which took me a very long time to warm up to. I didn’t use to care about Sneasel until about five years ago or the like; before Sneasel, my favorite was Rayquaza because I was in love with its design. With Sneasel, I’d say it’s both because of its design and because I tend to associate myself with weasels for a number of reasons, but I don’t know if my love for weasels came after or before my love for Sneasel.

3. What is your favorite type of Pokémon? Why?
Dark and Steel, for obvious reasons.

4. If you were a Pokémon, what would you be?
lol

5. What would be the first Pokémon you catch on your journey? (Name one for each region.)
Kanto: Weedle
Johto: Hoppip
Hoenn: Ralts
Sinnoh: Shinx

6. Name your dream team. (Any region)
I adore too many Pokémon to have a dream team.

7. How long have you been interested in Pokémon?
Since it first came out in Italy. I followed the anime and collected Pokémon pictures with my cousins, then we started making our fakes, our very own Pokémon card game… During the second year of middle school I remember trying to quit Pokémon because the kids in school were making fun of me, but in the end I didn’t really care about their opinion and I liked Pokémon more than them anyway, so I got hooked again. Then I began actually playing the games and you know the tale.

8. What do you value more, the games or the toys?
The games.

9. What games do you have?
You mean, the ones that I physically own? Then it would be Snap, Mystery Dungeon, Diamond and Platinum.

10. What is your favorite plush? Figure? Game?
Plush: 2003 limited Absol (I KEEP IT BESIDE MY BED)
Figure: dunno
Game: Crystal, Platinum

11. Name your top 5 least favorite Pokémon.
Aipom, Wormadam, Regigigas, Blissey, Snubbull? in any order
no not really, Aipom has always been my least favorite and I’ve come to hate it even more

12. What is your most favorite and least favorite regions?
Favorite: Sinnoh
Least favorite: Kanto (SHUT UP IT’S SO BORING)

13. Do you like anthropomorphic (human-like) Pokémon (Pokémorphs)?
Sometimes. Other times they make me want to shoot myself

14. What Pokémorph species would you want to be?
…and that’s what I meant

15. What is your favorite moment in the Pokémon anime?
I don’t really care. (I’ll care only when Volkner and Flint will show up, lol)

16. Which feature in any Pokémon game do you enjoy the most? (e.g. multiplayer battles, contests, day/night system, etc.)
…tell me I’m lame but…the little IV-based personality profiles in DPP were so sweet

17. What is your favorite Pokémon song(s) (or song used in the Pokémon animé and movies)?
Game soundtrack: Raikou/Entei/Suicune battle, Kanto Gym Leader battle (GSC), DPP Trainer battle
Anime songs: Mesaze Pokémon Master, Kaze to Issho ni

18. What is your favorite Pokémon movie?
Myuutsuu no Gyakushuu
which is also my favorite movie, lol

19. Do you prefer Pokémon that are powerful or Pokémon that have a good design (in other words, good looks)?
WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THIS

20. Quick! What is your most random thought (that’s clean) of a Pokémon doing something that humans do?
A MUK WATCHING SOAP OPERAS
THAT WOULD BE HILARIOUS

21. Tag 5 people.
feel free to snatch this