Marill's Modest Musings

[marillvibes]

Hey there!

I've recently tried to get into doing some digital/graphic things lately. I used to make a lot of forum signatures back in the day, but I've lost a lot of the touch I used to have. I made some things recently I wanted to share!


General Graphics
First, here is a graphic I made for the Pets & Animal's room:

Panda Graphic

Nothing crazy here, just used a stock adobe illustrations background, a free font I downloaded ages ago, and the gen5 sprites from serebii. Kinda used my experience making forum sigs to craft this up. Any feedback is appreciated, but I had fun putting this one together.


Sprite/Avatar Stuff
I also tried my hand at recoloring some avatars/sprites! I'm still a novice and would appreciate any feedback. (Shoutout deetah for helping me make the phorus-recolor look better!)
Note: If you want to use my recolors/sprites on PS, just send me a PM, and I'll reply to you! Usually it's okay, there are some that I wouldn't want to let everyone use, though. If I do give you permission, please remember to give credit. Thank you very much!

Phorus-Unite recolor

This was version 1:

After talking to deetah, I came up with this:

And after asking a few friends what they thought, I also made this version:

Credits to kyledove for the original phorus-unite!

Brock Recolor

Sonia/Johanna-Contest Palette Swap!

Credits to Brumirage for the original!

Lillie-Z/Leaf-Masters2 Palette Swap!

Credits to Beliot419 for the original!

May Sapphire Edition

Credits to kyledove for the original May!

Shiny Squirtle (He deserved a blue shell tbh)

I've had a lot of fun making graphics/sprite recolors, if anyone has any feedback, would love to hear it. I plan to make some more just to practice or mess around!

 

[PenQuin]

I'd hang all of your art on my refrigerator. No questions asked.

 

[marillvibes]

I did a triple sprite recolor with deetah!

We did some palette swapping/same palette stuff, and it was really fun! The one I struggled with the most was getting Lillie's brown hair from the Leaf palette swap to look correct. (Thank you for the help deetah )

Brock Recolor (With and without chain)

This one was really fun, I definitely prefer the version with the chain I kind of improvised!

Sonia/Johanna-Contest Palette Swap

Credits to Brumirage for the original!
Love how the hair came out on this one!

Lillie-Z/Leaf-Masters2 Palette Swap (With original hair and with palette swap hair)

Credits to Beliot419 for the original!
I struggled REALLY hard with the hair recolor on this one. But happy with the rest of it, and the hair eventually came out looking okay.

Was fun to do a little 3 series recolor with deetah!

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I'll include some things below I did on my own for fun:

May with Sapphire Recolor

Credits to kyledove for the original!
May just looks like she was meant to be in her Sapphire outfit!

Shiny Squirtle Recolor

He deserved a blue shell!

May & Squirtle!

Credits to kyledove for the original May!
Thought they would look cute together!

 

[marillvibes]

Another day, another batch!

I had someone in the Art Gallery on PS ask me to do a Cynthia recolor, so I did!

Cynthia Recolor

Credits to kyledove for the original!
Really happy with the mint-y kind of vibe this has going.

Also did a recolor of Perrin, seemed like it would be fun!

Perrin Recolor

Credits to kyledove for the original!
Really like the red hair, and I went for a kind of khaki vibe on the pants!

Then I got a little crazy, and decided I'd do a kind of regional-esc change of Bulbasaur? This had MANY iterations, and after asking friends I slowly changed it each time.

Bouldersaur

V1

V2

V3 with a lil lava drip from a suggestion I got!

This one took a while. I was kind of unhappy after looking at V1 for a bit, because it just gives "Halloween". Someone suggested I should make it into a jack-o-lantern, maybe I will try that! So when I did V2, I really wanted it to feel "Volcano"-y, and I think I achieved that. REALLY happy with the way it came out, and then I decided to put the Perrin recolor and "Bouldersaur" together!

Perrin & Bouldersaur

Really had fun making these, the Bouldersaur in particular I think came across really well by v3. Bouldersaur my first time really "adding" to an existing sprite, and trying to make lil lava particles. Still learning on my spriting/pixel art journey!

I plan to eventually try to finish the evolution tree, hopefully I can do them justice!

 

[Irpachuza]

I love typing swaps by recoloring, amazing job!

 

[marillvibes]

I love typing swaps by recoloring, amazing job!

That means a lot coming from you! Your work is SO good. Thank you Irpa!!

 

[marillvibes]

I finished the evolution line!

If you remember, I made this guy (Bouldersaur) here:

I told myself I'd make the other two evolutions, so I did! Here we go:

And finally:

Had a good time making these 3! I think the final evolution is probably my best, but I was also really happy after a few iterations with how the middle evolution came out too! I pulled the color palette from a "fire rose" I found on google, and it came out great imo.

 

[Opple]

DAAAAMN BOY - why am I only just seeing this?

 

[marillvibes]

Anotha one

Anthea Recolor

Credits to kyledove for the original!

Love the blue on yellow for this one

Klara Recolor

Credits to Brumirage for the original!

Pesselle Recolor

Credits to Brumirage for the original!

And I wanted to recolor my favorite Pokemon's Shiny:

Golden Marill with a smile

My man deserved a better shiny.

Really happy with these!

 

[marillvibes]

Did some more recolors for fun!

Serena Recolor

Credits to the original by kyledove!

Just a small tweak of the palette to make her more vibrant!

Bianca Recolor

I really dig the purples!

Gardevoir Type Change

Kind of going for a ghost/spectral vibe, was inspired by some of the recent Palworld additions, and took some color palette inspo from one of em!

 

[Audiino]

nice colors, the green of the gardevoir looks like one of those glow in the dark things

 

[marillvibes]

nice colors, the green of the gardevoir looks like one of those glow in the dark things

That was totally the intention!!! I am glad you said that haha

 

[marillvibes]

Did two more recolors, just for funsies, and ended up putting one together with my marill recolor / edit, and requested it for my custom avatar on PS!

Fisher Gen8 Recolor

Credits to kyledove for the original!

Went for like an ice-fishing kind of vibe, and the blonde hair, I think this one is cute!

Mai Recolor

Credits to Brumirage for the original!

Really really happy with this one, I love the blue on black, and I think the hair looks nice! I ended up liking it enough to make:

Custom Avatar

Credits to Brumirage for the original Mai!

 

[aegii]

why wasnt mai blond in the game she looks gorgeous

 

[marillvibes]

Kinda wanted to just do some recolors, so I did a thing for kenn (use them as you wish sir)

Custom Avatar for kenn (Larvitar/Steven Recolor)

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Credits to ZacWeavile for the steven-gen6 base!

Custom Avatar for kenn (Tyrunt & Steven Recolor)

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Credits to ZacWeavile for the steven-gen6 base & aXl for the Tyrunt sprite!

I personally had a lot of fun going for a cold-steel esc recolor for Larvitar, but I also love both the Steven recolors I did! :)

 

[marillvibes]

If you remember my previous type-swap venture, Bulbasaur is my favorite starter. I had a thought and decided to make a Water type variant too!

Let's take a trip on the journey:

I took Lombre's Lilypad and angled it to fit the pose more, and used a sprite from Tentacool to make the tentacles, that I in the end wanted to be little water whips at final version.

I had also at some point decided to add a flower on Bulbasaur. Looking back, this was probably a lot to cram in one, because the final iteration with these features looks pretty busy, but in the moment I was locked in on adding features + an upcoming recolor. Let's see what that looks like:

This initially is where I was going to stop. I had two color variants, was happy with both. But after talking to some friends / other artists (thank you guys), I decided to start over from scratch. Shoutout to Clementine for giving me feedback on shading and effects. deetah being the good friend she is also decided to help me in general fully realize what this could be, and was a major player in both feedback & actually working on the sprite with me, since we passed it back and forth a few times. This is what we cooked up:

This is the final variant! I love this one a lot more. The mouth being red and the eyes being green makes it look more like a variant which I like (deetah's idea). deetah also redrew that flower to add on the top. I recolored the Parasol Lady and gave her a cute little hair piece, while deetah helped me with the palette / outlines. I did hand draw all those bubbles! I'm really happy with how it came out, and will be using it on PS soon! If you see me rocking it, just know it took many hours and a lot of iterations to get here!

Thank you to deetah for helping me get it fully online and look proper. You are the goat and I love doing sprite stuff with you!


Here are the originals if you're curious how far it came:

 

[marillvibes]

Took a small break from the water-type bulbasaur line and made a shiny recolor of one of my favorite electric types

Togedemaru Shiny Recolor
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Afterwards, I really wanted to finish the water-type bulbasaur line, so here we are:

Vibesaur (name is a WIP)
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Serenasaur
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really happy with how these three turned out! I did a lot of custom work on the Venusaur in particular. Only thing that was reused was the tree, which is from Torterra, just edited and recolored

 

[Shaymin Sky]

Took a small break from the water-type bulbasaur line and made a shiny recolor of one of my favorite electric types

Togedemaru Shiny Recolor
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Afterwards, I really wanted to finish the water-type bulbasaur line, so here we are:

Vibesaur (name is a WIP)
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Serenasaur
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really happy with how these three turned out! I did a lot of custom work on the Venusaur in particular. Only thing that was reused was the tree, which is from Torterra, just edited and recolored

I now want a regional form of water type venusaur ._. this is epic