#096 Drowzee / #097 HypnoDrowzee is based on the baku, a Japanese folkloric being known for eating d

#096 Drowzee / #097 Hypno

Drowzee is based on the baku, a Japanese folkloric being known for eating dreams. Baku is also the Japanese name of the Malayan tapir, the animal that inspired the two-tone body coloration of original Drowzee’s.

We change things up a bit by giving Drowzee the markings of a juvenile Malayan tapir, and adding some dreamy cloud swirls.

Hypno then becomes the fully realized baku, with markings that combine those of the adult Malayan tapir with the stripes of a baku’s tiger paws. It used its swirly tail as a pendulum instead of a coin!