Week 16: Scaling Giants. This art was lovingly created using: Paint Tool SAI.
Artist’s Notes
(a small TW for alcohol and drug abuse) I decided to draw not my most favorite pokemon for this week, but the pokemon I respect* the most. Lugia’s past is quite depressing. The creator of Lugia, Takeshi Shudo, heavily relied on alcohol, pills and even tranquilizers to get his mind in the workspace, which sadly isn’t an uncommon practice with creators. Lugia was supposedly supposed to only show up in Pokemon: The Movie, but it found it’s way in the game. She was supposed to represent *life and maternity. She was supposed to be the Goddess of the Sea, mother of life. Buuut, sadly the details were taken out of Shudo’s grasp, and Lugia became a genderless legendary. They even made her a psychic type because, quote “We wanted to make it more powerful.”
It’s disappointing and disheartening to see what happened to this deep-ocean beauty. The bastardizing of Shudo’s ideas caused him to fall into a great despair, where he overdosed a few years later. I never knew Lugia’s story before, but now that I do, she is the only legendary I look at and feel something. I hope it’s the same for you too. She’s truly the mother of all glory hidden in Pokemon’s lore.
here’s a video with more information on Lugia’s Story
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Week: 16
Medium: Paint Tool SAI
Title: __The ~~Diving~~ Maternal Legendary__
Description: (a small TW for alcohol and drug abuse) I decided to draw not my most favorite pokemon for this week, but the pokemon I *respect* the most. Lugia's past is quite depressing. The creator of Lugia, Takeshi Shudo, heavily relied on alcohol, pills and even *tranquilizers* to get his mind in the workspace, which sadly isn't an uncommon practice with creators. Lugia was supposedly supposed to only show up in Pokemon: The Movie, but it found it's way in the game. She was supposed to represent *life* and maternity. She was supposed to be the Goddess of the Sea, mother of life. Buuut, sadly the details were taken out of Shudo's grasp, and Lugia became a genderless legendary. They even made her a psychic type because, quote "We wanted to make it more powerful."
It's disappointing and disheartening to see what happened to this deep-ocean beauty. The bastardizing of Shudo's ideas caused him to fall into a great despair, where he overdosed a few years later. I never knew Lugia's story before, but now that I do, she is the only legendary I look at and *feel* something. I hope it's the same for you too. She's truly the mother of all glory hidden in Pokemon's lore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQbKwNmsTes
here's a video with more information on Lugia's Story