I found this random adjective generator online and my goal was whatever adjectives I get, I was to make a pixel art fakemon based off of those adjectives. I used it and got venomous, nosy, and ill-informed.
Although it doesn't look super creative, and it looks like something from the Gameboy Color, I am happy about its readability. I also have been realizing I am doing better with pixel art if I set restrictions on it ahead of time, such as using only 5 colors (transparent also being counted as a color).
The creature, that I thought about calling Priengeist, is a poison/ghost type. It is inspired by the real Ghost Tarsier. I am not sure about the yellow ball it is on. I just thought it would look better with it aesthetically. Maybe it likes to collects oozing tree sap? And maybe it ends up being toxic to other fakemon and people from it's fur touching it.
The idea is that its evolution is going to be based off of a flying squirrel possibly being called Phanflien with a poison barbed tail. Both Fakemon is supposedly mistaken for spirits and ghosts at night in the forests due to the glowy eyes of the Priengeist and the slight glow of the fur and body shape of Phanflien at night.
Some background information about the real Ghost Tarsier, The Ghost Tarsier actually has glands under it's arms in its fur that secrete an oil. When it is mixed with its saliva, it becomes poisonous which I thought was pretty crazy. Also, it is easy to spook a Ghost Tarsier by sound and touch to were they will die by either not eating anymore or by smacking their own heads and cracking their skull. Tourists are warned to never touch them. They also sing at night and they do jump. They eat insects, birds, snakes, lizards, and bats.
While the first piece was made with 5 colors, I wanted my second attempt of making a Fakemon to look less like it game from 20 year old game lol. So this piece that is based off of flying squirrels, is the evolution of the first piece in a different style of pixel art. It is more on the realistic side rather than cartoony. It works with more colors per pair. I need to work on meeting in the middle of the cartoony-ness of the first piece and more details/colors like the second piece has.
I couldn't decide on its shiny color, but the purple and pink (top left pair) is the standard one for reasons you will read later. It has a barbed tail that is poisonous and I thought about calling it Phanflien. I still don't feel like the ghost typing really fits it, but the poison typing does still. Realistically, it would probably do better as a poison normal type or something for how bland the design is. At least the first piece displays a habit that fakemon has, collecting tree sap. lol.
Overall I am pleased at my personal progress and I had fun with these test pieces. And I like their vibes 
Some background information about real flying squirrels, flying squirrels of North America glow pink under ultraviolet light. This happens because of a toxic chemical called uroporphyrin that cant be metabolized by the flying squirrel due to a genetic mutation they have. And flying squirrels are known to be curious. They eat insects, fruit, fungi, seeds, and nuts.
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