mattydraws:So a few months back I’d created a piece for a curated zine (@poketravelzine) where

mattydraws:

So a few months back I’d created a piece for a curated zine (@poketravelzine) where each artist would explore and create their interpretation of one of the routes from any of the regions that exist within the pokemon world, including pokemon and trainers alike if they wanted.

I chose to explore one of my favourite routes in Hoenn, which was: Route 128 (underwater).

On this route there was a submarine, as a kid playing the game I was like ‘shit this is so cool’ I wanted to be in that submarine, but I was quite happy to be chilling, diving with my Wailmer, aha.

Although in the game this route wasn’t vibrant or overgrown with coral n’ kelp everywhere, I would always imagine what it would look like in real life, the submarine would be reclaimed by nature, coral and seaweed would start to grow over and across the metal exterior - as would rust. Magikarp would be making funny faces at the shoal of Barboach n’ Luvdisc, a Wailord would be grinning in the background too.

Anyway, I can’t thank these art pals enough for allowing me to be a part of this awesome curation!! It brought back so much nostalgia n’ I honestly had a blast I never make nor post fanart so this was so super one-off for me.

Curators and organisers:
@allisoncarl
@jean-wei
@hannayoonicha 
@meruz

Thanks for reading n’ safe travels!


Matt.

:~)