Pokemon BW Box Redesign

One of the really cool things about HGSS was the stylised box arts featuring original art. It was really a shame that Black and White went back to the old "let's just copy+paste the default Sugimori Art" style.

The Reshiram didn't turn out as nicely as I'd hoped. It had a lot less brush strokes in its diffuse layers compared to the Zekrom. Even sketching the thing took a lot, because Reshiram is very hard to pose. I ended up browsing DA for references, and happened across this beautiful pic by The-Kye which had a nice pose that I adapted.

After doing this art, I read some recent info saying that Reshiram exhausts fire from its rear like a jet engine. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, and I will never draw a Reshiram doing that.


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