"Pokémon Colosseum"

originally created May 17, 2023 ✦ republished February 8, 2025

(Originally posted on Instagram, Mastodon. This retroactive post is adapted from the Instagram post.)

Guess what I just finished after I started it 2 ENTIRE MONTHS ago!!!!! Oh god this took wayyy too long 🤤🤤🤤

Shading is variable, because I wasn't sure where shading would look most appropriate; so shading ended up being heavier for the guys on the left-hand side and very sparse on the right-hand side. Does this sound like a good description of the process? It's been wayyy too long since I've done those....

It's been wayyy too long since I've done a lot of things, really, though I probably sound like a broken record for saying that in so many posts. Thanks to two rocky weeks of being sick, doing AP exams, and catching up on work, then subsequently encountering a situation where one of my teachers is out for the rest of the school year, and having the end of the semester fast approaching and gearing up to cover quite a bit of content before finals, a lot has been going on.

Fortunately, I have gradually started creating a priorities list for things I want to do. Something I usually do is, somewhere on a piece of paper, I'll quickly write a list in a corner, title "things to do". Underneath, I'll quickly scratch together a list of all the things on my mind, as well as things that I remember wanting to get back to from a long time ago. One of those bullets was this enormous project, which I can now cross out and replace with just generally drawing anything I like, things that DON'T end up not getting finished until almost 2 months later 😄 Some others include setting up a Jabber messaging server, finally getting to making my personal blog by learning how to use some kind of document database, and working through 's SwiftUI Tutorials so I can have the skills to maybe make some native apps.

Very ambitious, and tbh a bit dry as well. Perhaps it only feels that way because I've been exhausted from school lately, or because I haven't been biking outside, resting enough, or seeing people outside of school. But let's just see how it goes, go with the flow instead of rigidly saying "I gotta have things this particular way"—that's the kind of attitude I want to hold.