This one is a birthday gift that I made for one of my best IRL friends, when he turned 23. One of the three persons who I would act furryish in front of, and who I would thrust to take photos of me if I ever were to fursuit. He's a great photographer and you can see his works here: http://catokusanagi.deviantart.com/

Worked on it for about 6 hours, as a practice for various techniques I wanted to try, like Photoshop use of the Pen Tool, Anime eyes technique, painting fire and Yayster's Pokémon art style.

About this last one I have to say that the result is not exactly the same. It's a very difficult technique -it seems that you need to choose the colors very carefully to achieve the shading a la Ken Sugimori- The end result was quite good nevertheless. It's like a fusion of my style of Cell Shading and Ken Sugimori's style. ^^;

Those are the eyes most beautiful I've ever drawn. I totally got the technique. And the fire, shadows and gradients was a nice idea that came out very good (poor excuse for a lack of a background XD)

Lastly but not least, I don't have the shame to say that the lineart was traced; Kudos to Kouki Saitoi and his wonderful and beautiful work as TCG illustrator =^_^= The original illustrations that I took are from two cards in EX FireRed & LeafGreen and EX Holon Phantoms sets. The direction of the light source in the originals inspired in me this beautiful composition.

Charmander and Pikachu © of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company