How to Create Your Own Pokemon

Pokemon is an anime TV show and a trading card game. A Pokemon is an animal with powers that will fight, gain levels, evolve, and be its owner's companion. Most Pokemon characters take after real animals, like birds or mammals. Some even take after dinosaurs. Your Pokemon's special powers depend on whether the Pokemon is a fire, water, earth, or air creature. You can make up names for the attack powers, because there isn't a set name. Maybe it can breathe fire, or it can throw boomerangs made out of plants. Unleash your creativity in making up your Pokemon.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Drawing paper
• Tracing paper
• Pencils
• Pens
• Crayons
• Colored pencils

1. Choose an animal that you like. You should choose one that you are able to draw or trace.

2. Choose a color for your animal. It doesn't necessarily need to be the actual color of the animal you are portraying. It can simply be a favorite color.

3. Decide what colors you will use to shade your Pokemon. They should be darker shades of the main color.

4. Pick out an accent color. This color doesn't need to be the same as your main color. It can be any color at all. You will want to use it for stripes and markings, on the stomach, and possibly for the eyes.

5. Outline the animal of choice, or modify it to create a whole new shape. Most Pokemon characters have rounded details, and they are made somewhat after an animal or dinosaur. The individual character is then modified until it is its own creature.

6. Draw in the face and mild detail for fur. Most Pokemon characters have large eyes and very little detail in the fur.

7. Add color patterns if you wish. Stripes across the back, spots or patterns will look very nice.

8. Use your darker shade color to color the stomach if your Pokemon stands on its back legs. If it stands on four legs, add your color pattern on the back.

9. Start working on the smaller details--such as claws, hooves, noses, tails, eyes, teeth, and any hair that will stick up.

10. When you have finished drawing and coloring your Pokemon in one pose, you may want to draw it in another. You might decide you want a battle pose, an injured pose or a happy pose.

11. Choose a name for this new Pokemon. Your Pokemon name can have something to do with what kind of animal it takes after, or you can make something up that simply sounds appealing to you.

Tips & Warnings

• You might want to try tracing paper if you decide to make your Pokemon look like an animal you've chosen. You can even try mixing animal parts with tracing paper. Colored pencils, crayons and markers all work fairly well when you are creating your own Pokemon.