On Friday, June 10, 2022, after 11 years, I reached 150 followers on Twitter. To celebrate, I've been drawing the 150 pokémon, one for each follower. (And, before you ask, yes, I know I passed that mark a while back here, I really wasn't physically able to until now, I'll be doing 150 for FA next)

I set myself a few simple rules at the outset:

• Each drawing starts a 5-minute timer. The pokémon must be drawn in that time
• Each pokémon is assigned to a follower, the assignment is given by the order they followed me in, as taken from my follower's list at the moment of reaching 150
• To make that pokémon be that follower's, the drawing must also include an element from that follower's profile picture (The idea is not to redraw their profile picture but with pokémon, but take just an item; for some I'm particularly fond of, I did end up drawing their full 'sona ...Yes that sentence is deliberately ambiguous)

Originally, I planned to do the 150 in a day (what? it's doable if I don't need to stop in the middle!... like, to think of what i'm going to draw next... yeah...), but what I eventually settled on was to use it as a warmup (do remember I'm terrible with warmups) while I work on two particularly big commissions (counting the Special Passenger YCH as one) and that I'd do it as soon as I wake up so that I don't have trouble finding time in the day. Each day, I limit myself to a single evolutionary line, theoretically meaning the days when I do two-pokémon lines, I'll have more time to work on the commissions (as opposed to not working on them at all until things settled, again, at my job)

As I progressed, though, the 5-minute limit was amended several times thus so:

• If the whole drawing isn't finished in the 5 minutes, an additional 5 minutes are set for the "personal item"
• Okay, if the pokémon itself isn't finished in 5 minutes, you can get an additional 5 minutes for that which do not conflict with the 5 minutes for the item (it means the pokémon is hard to draw!)
• If the delay is caused by the interplay of the pokémon and the item, you get 5 additional "free" minutes, because you can't blame that on the pokémon being hard to draw
• If the alarm goes off a 5th time, you gotta post it before it goes off a 6th time, you can't spend all day on this!
...Okay, a 7th
• Time is measured with a digital kitchen timer and you must attend to it when it beeps
...Okay, if you find a song that's about 5 minutes, you can use that too
• You can't spend more time on the "item" than on the pokémon!
...Except if it's a 'sona
• The whole drawing can't take more than 45 minutes!
...If the "item" reference is particularly unhelpful, we can make an exception


At any rate, here are the first 65 pokémon, which form a neat little rectangular shape which is good for posting elsewhere (and also doesn't cut an evolutionary line in half)

Pokémon #066-#108 can be found here
Pokémon #109-#151 can be found here

Each 'sona belongs to its respective owner

Pokémon are copyright The Pokémon Company and used under the Nintendo Content Guidelines


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