Summary
A talentedPokemonfan is redesigning Nintendo’s lineup of elementally empowered creatures, starting withRed and Blue’s Bulbasaur line. EveryPokemongeneration has a trio of starter evolution lines that serve as the player’s first Pokemon, and Bulbasaur set the standard by not only being the first Grass-type starter option in the series, but the very first officialPokemoncreature overall. When Bulbasaur reaches level 16, it evolves into the stronger Ivysaur, and once it hits level 32 it completes its evolution by becoming the hulking Venusaur.
Since Bulbasaur and its evolutions have been a part of thePokemonfranchise from the very beginning, it should come as little surprise that they remain some of the most popular and well-recognized in the series. Fan artists have offered up their own takes on Bulbasaur and its later forms, giving them impressive redesigns orimagining them as a different type like Ghostor Steel. Some more festivePokemonfans have given Bulbasaur a more season-appropriate look with an autumn-inspired pumpkin design or icy winter variants.
Reddit user necrovvi recently began redesigning the originalPokemon Red and Blueline-up, includingBulbasaur and its evolutions. Bulbasaur itself has been transformed into a smaller, seedlike creature resembling a teddy bear, Ivysaur is now a bipedal creature with leafy hair that covers half its face, and Venusaur has become a tyrannosaurus-like beast with bright red claws and thorn-covered vines as tails. The artist also made Shiny variants for these new Bulbasaur redesigns, which have been compared by other Reddit users to the titular creatures of the similarDigimonfranchise.
Pokemon Fan Gives Bulbasaur a Digimon-Like Redesign
Before posting their impressive Bulbasaur line redesigns, necrovvi shared their similar take onCharmander and its own evolutions, making them sleeker and more salamander-like. They have also created more humanoid versions ofPokemon Red and Bluestarter evolutions Charizard and Venusaur, as well as more traditional renderings of other popular Pokemon across different generations.
Part of what makes thePokemonfranchise so endearing to so many fansis the variety of different monsters that are introduced with each new game, which in turn inspire them to either draw their own versions of these powerful and collectible creatures or create new ones outright. The artist behind these fan-made Bulbasaur evolution redesigns takes something of a middle approach, offering up radically different interpretations of characters that gamers have known for the past three decades that carry their own special charm.
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