Artist's commentary
Colosseum Hero
First off, just a note to Indilee, I haven't forgotten about Aelaric! Don't worry! He's safe and sound in a nice notebook! He'll get his treatment soon!
The characters you see are from Pokemon Colosseum (the story mode.) I've been dying to draw the main character since last November but every time I drew him, he came out pretty badly.
Nintendo didn't make him very bishounen either. He's got this strange white stripe across his face. My roomate joked that he must have fallen asleep on a baseball diamond and somebody ran his head over with the chalk machine. I have this horrible habit of taking characters and 'bishounen-izing' them just out of the fact that the characters deserve better. (The things I do to Ash.)
Anyways, the character is nameless but I think one of the default choices was "Wes" and a lot of people stuck with that name. Same case for the girl with the name "Rui." She reminds me a lot of Misty and sticks to you like glue all the same.
Espeon and Umbreon are the hero's two starters, that's why they're there.
I had horrible issues with the lighting. The highlights I put in their eyes don't match up properly with the shading. Argh.
EDIT: Is the preview image working now? O__o;;;
Medium: Markers, color pens, white out, white gel pen, weird red gooey ink for my name stamp
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Nintendo

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