PKMN: 41 Days until Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire!

I signed up to participate in the Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire Countdown on tumblr! Every participant was assigned a day between 1 and 50, and their task was to draw something related to ORAS with text saying “___ days until ORAS/etc”. My assigned day was Day 41–today. (The game comes out on November 21st). Please check out the other submissions as well; with over 600 artists participating, it’s an incredibly diverse group of talents and styles.

I’ve already gushed a little about how much Ruby and Sapphire meant to me as a kid, so I’m so happy that I was able to participate in the countdown to the remakes. Steven Stone was always my favorite character (and my first anime crush) so I knew I had to draw something with him for my day.

For the background/text box I tried to incorporate the feel of the original games with the background used in cave battles and the NPC speech text bubble. I even went to the trouble of tracking down the font used in the games! I also wanted to incorporate things we know about the new games, such as the importance of mega stones (the four marble-like mega stones pictured here are all for Pokemon found in Ruby and Sapphire), the silver Beldum which will be given away when the game is released, and a Sableye, which is going to get a new mega evolution in ORAS. And of course, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to draw Steven as the rock-loving nerd he is.

I actually drew this back in September, but was not allowed to post it anywhere before the countdown blog put it up.

Completed 9.8.14