PKMN: Steven + Minerals series

Geology and Pokemon are things I care way too much about, so of course I’m a fan of a Pokemon character who loves rocks as much as I love rocks. I’ve had a weakness for Steven Stone since before I became interested in geology, but now that I’m a graduated geology minor, I feel like I connect with Steven on an emotional level. Rocks are the best.

The basic idea for this was Steven doing a sort of celebrity photoshoot for a magazine, using his rock collection as props. I don’t know where the idea came from, but you bet I was compelled to draw it. I wanted to contrast a sort of luxury, “sexy” setup with 100%  real rock facts, so that it ends up sort of looking like an advertisement for the (otherwise kinda mundane) rocks. I think I succeeded, or at least, I like how they came out. I might draw more, since these were fun to do, and any excuse to draw Steven and brush up on rock facts is a good excuse in my book.

The rocks he’s holding are based on samples from my personal rock collection, and two of the rocks on the sheets in the Chalcedony pic are also from my collection. I had to draw the Chalcedony largely from memory, though.

Lepidolite completed 11.23.14

Chalcedony completed 11.25.14