Hey, Ultra here with another character redesign! This time, I redesigned the first character I’ve ever made. This character has been the one I’ve redesigned the most and had the most complex design relationship with. While I still do have the first drawing, I can’t get to it as it is buried under books, magazines, and other papers. Other than that, here is the earliest drawing I still have.
I made this in 2012 in colors for 3ds, as you can see, Blue looked a lot like Pikachu, this is because he started off as a fakemon. The first drawing I ever made of him was in a scholastic pokemon book in 2002 or 2003 (the book had gen 3 pokemon) he looked mostly the same here, but he had no mouth. I can’t remember the reason why, but I didn’t really draw him much between this time and when I went to high school. I think I wasn’t that into drawing during these years and was more content with just having my characters in my imagination. As I got older, I knew I needed to redesign him and make him move away from the Pikachu look, I gave him some equipment to help but wasn’t totally satisfied.
I remember doodling this in health class after I finished my work and my teacher and some student around me was interested. This is pretty much the same design as above, but I didn’t have a scanner so my mom would scan my drawings at her job, which resulted in the weird cropping.
This one is still in 2012, I was reminiscing about him and how he was the first character I’ve created, so I wanted to draw him and incorporate him with my designs for class. I, unfortunately, can’t find those designs, but I know I still have them on some flash drive.
2013, 1st major redesign. As I was thinking about this character more, I wondered what his story is and what kind of character I wanted to convey to him. I thought he’d look best as an adventurer, so I just slapped on a cape, pants, belt, and some shoes. I felt sort of mixed with the end result, some things I liked and other things I didn’t. Also, Mario and Luigi Dream Team was coming out at this time and I tried to replicate the style.
2020, 3rd major redesign. First off, I can’t believe I made this in 2020, I really thought I did this a few years before. Anyway, I hadn’t drawn Blue for a couple years so I wanted to draw him for my birthday. I got rid of the hood (I realized I don’t like drawing hoods) and mostly tried to keep his design more simple. I made this in Affinity Photo, it’s a pretty ok drawing platform, but it’s way better for photo manipulation and whatnot.
This is the first one, I liked the angle and whatnot, but didn’t like the overall picture, so I just quickly finished this up and made the one above.
Lastly, here’s a sketch I made when I was coming up with the redesign. I mainly wanted to see how everything would work here and not in a thumbnail sketch.
Alright, thanks for reading!
UltraD.P.G. 