Top quality scans of unique Pokémon watercolour artwork shared for first time

For years, scans of Sugimori Ken’s unique watercolour art work of the primary two generations of Pokémon species have circulated on-line. For the primary time, prime quality scans of the art work are being shared with the Pokémon group within the hopes of archiving them.

The drawings depict the primary 251 Pokémon to look within the video games and have been uploaded by YouTuber and Pokémon archivist LewTwo to Twitter. The scans have been despatched to Lewtwo by Twitter consumer ExcaliburZero_Z.

The outdated scans are believed to have originated from the Pokémon Pink and Blue Participant’s Information, Lewtwo defined, the place they ended up with “inaccurate colours, have been typically misshapen, and usually very low high quality”.

Looking on the new scans which have been shared up to now, the distinction in high quality is evident when evaluating them to the outdated scans. The colors look much less washed out and the outlines are a lot clearer. Take a look at Tauros and it is unbelievable how a lot was beforehand misplaced within the colors. Fairly than varied shades of orange, Tauros has browns! And greys! And appears much more just like the Tauros we’re used to seeing.

Lewtwo has shared scans for loads of different Pokémon together with Ivysaur, Diglett, and Oddish. Lewtwo said they are going to be working with websites similar to Bulbapedia to share the brand new scans, in addition to placing them on their very own Pokémon Asset Archive for preservation. The unique scans will stay out there on-line too for many who want to have a look at them.