Finished drawing May 6, 2023. You can now find this picture in my Fan Art section.
Chuggaaconroy started doing a Let’s Play of Pokemon Black Version 2 & White Version 2 last month. Since Pokemon has been one of my favorite game series for a long time (if you couldn’t tell by my Fan Art Gallery), and since he started using some people’s fanart at the end of his videos, I thought I would try to make a contribution to the fun. So, over the course of a couple hours a day for a week, I drew this.
I don’t know if I have drawn Rosa from the Pokemon series before, but I wanted to give it a shot. The setting is meant to be the Virbank Complex, an industrial plant in southwestern Unova where several Fire, Electric, and Poison Pokemon roam. This is also where Chugga caught “McFly”, the Elekid he uses in his playthrough.
In the episode he caught his Elekid, though, Chugga tried to spot every Pokemon available in the Virbank Complex so his Pokedex would record them. However, the Fire Pokemon Growlithe eluded him for a surprisingly long time. Only while editing did he realize the problem: his new teammate. He stuck his Elekid at the front of his party to train him, so he accidentally activated the overworld effect of Elekid’s Static ability: encountering Electric-type Pokemon more frequently than he normally would. Because of this, Chugga was running into way more wild Elekid and Magnemite than he should, lowering his chances of finding a Growlithe (who is NOT an Electric-type). (I also added a Mareep to this image. You cannot find Mareep in Virbank Complex, but it is another Electric Pokemon you could have encountered by this point in the game.)
Ultimately, I wanted to combine that silly incident with some aesthetics from the nearby Pokestar Studios (an in-game movie production venue) to create a poster with a much more dramatic appearance.