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How is it possible that a man who can make this
can also make these?

They’re the ugliest official artworks I’ve ever seen. All those unflattering angles and ugly colors. Aipom and Smeargle look like someone’s tickling their butts. Teddiursa just barfed. Delibird is now a nazi. And don’t let me start about Tyrogue and Miltank. Beautiful Pokémon such as Skarmory or Scizor got completely botched up. What bothers me most is that this was the 1999 artwork for Porygon2. Now.

Why.

The web notebook I was rambling about the other day is now online. Its name is Swampnova. Read the about page for more.

as you may probably know by now, I literally obsess over web typography and I’m always looking for interesting articles and stuff, blah blah blah, I just found some great reads:

• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
• Five simple steps to better typography

Very long and very accurate, I’m learning a lot. I don’t even know if there’s people reading who care about these geeky things but well, whatever.

On other news, I’m doing some work for other people and I’m seriously considering to make a web notebook for myself where I can dump all those random short thoughts which I’d never post here but I’d be sorry to throw away either. It’s going to be something way more “personal” than this weblog, but at the same time I won’t give any context as to how those ideas came to be because seriously, I don’t want to share that much about me. I don’t get why my parents make all that fuss about the whole “YOU HAVE A PRIVATE LIFE WHICH IS PRIVATE SO DON’T POST PRIVATE STUFF ON THE INTERNET” cause heck, I AM a quite private person. I mean, there’s people sharing details about their sex life on the Internet - not that I’ve got anything against that, it’s just something I’d never ever do even if I were 101% sure only people I know and trust were reading. Just to clarify that. Well not that my parents are reading this anyway (even if they spoke English I don’t think they’d know about this weblog) but well

got a bit off track eh

The Fearow fanlisting is now open! I’m quite proud of the illustration on the right, I should put that much effort in all my art.
I SHOULD DRAW MORE AND MORE AND MORE

also the Hall of Changes got a new layout which may be my best ever so far. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

I’M PRODUCTIVE AS OF LATELY

• the world I draw is soft and silent like the day after the end of the world, when exposed lies become dazed smiles, but no one’s left to see
• in the world I draw, nothing is really extraordinary: like in an usual acid trip for the bored, weird stuff is bound to happen and is nothing but a routine
• the world I draw has no people looking any more alive than people in the one in which I walk. yesterday people were partying in the road, and I was looking at the beautiful patterns of shrieking swifts and clouds at sunset: I stupidly thought my soul was more alive than theirs, but, just like them, I wasn’t allowed to scream in awe. I wonder when people began thinking it was an unappropriate thing to do
• the world I draw actually has no real people: they bear resemblance to human beings, but they are actually more like the very idea of them, but at times they don’t look like them at all
• the world I draw is usually devoid of pointless words, and when there are words they are often to illustrate pointlessness
• the world I draw often experiences loss of interest in existing or being coherent to itself
• the world I draw is a survivor to my own dread and shame
• my world is somehow filled with the happiness which was stashed under a brick and promptly forgotten (I did that too).