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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Defenders of Warmth
Excerpt from Chapter Eight: Team Misfits
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Location: Sheltered Vale

Before he could finish his question, the entire world seemed to flip as Cody felt himself get yanked upwards. In the blur of sudden motion, he felt something lifting up on his body, and he saw the rest of Team Misfits getting lifted up along with him…

…and then, before any of them really knew what had happened, they were crammed together in a net of vines and spider webs, hanging from several strong tree branches.

"Reshiram and Zekrom above, what the heck is this!" Lisa yelled as she started to thrash about in hopes of getting down.

"Hey, cut it out! That hurts!" Ryan yelled at her.

"Can you guys keep it down?" Isola said in a whisper, her eyes wide with fear. "If there's this much here then-"

Cody was so used to being thrown around by Lisa that he practically didn't even feel inconvenienced by the netting; he simply grabbed ahold of the side to keep from laying on Isola, making her even more uncomfortable than the large pokémon already appeared to be. "I think it's a bit too late for that," he said. "The whole valley will have heard us by now. I mean, what with Ryan and Lisa-"

"Ah-hah! Caught you!"

The team looked down to see a group of pokémon running up; the pokémon in the lead, a galvantula, was the one who had just called out.

Once the group was near the net, the galvantula sparked with apparent satisfaction. "We already caught your friends, so there's no use struggling, you jerks!"

Ryan frowned. Or, rather, he frowned more so than he already had been in response to Lisa's struggles. "Friends? But we-"

"You idiots had better let the four of us down right now or I'm going to beat you all so hard that you'll move up north just to get as far away from me as possible!" Lisa yelled at the top of her voice, clearly infuriated.

"Ha! Like that's going to happen!" Galvantula said. "You guys deserve this for trying to mess with our valley right after we kicked out the last group of troublemakers!"

"DESERVE IT!" Lisa said, struggling so strongly that even Cody felt it on the opposite side of the net. "You pompous magikarp had better start apologizing, or I'm going to-"

"Just shut UP already, would you!" Cody shouted to Lisa. "Obviously there's been a misunderstanding, and-"

"You want me to beat you up here and now, Cody?" Lisa interrupted. "I'd be more than happy to oblige as warm up for taking care of these trap-using losers!"

In a barely louder-than-usual voice, Isola piped up, "Maybe we should all just calm down and-"

"Don't even try reasoning with them now, Isola," Ryan said. "Neither of them are going to listen to reason now. They're overreacting."

"Have I mentioned that your fur smells really bad when it's practically shoved up my NOSE, Ryan?" Lisa shouted. "I'm practically passing out now! This is NOT overreacting! Bathe every once and a while!"

In mock horror, Ryan replied, "I take offense at that, my dear Lisa! I bathe at least once a year! You just happened to catch me in spring when my usual bathing season is summer."

Isola sighed. "We must sound like such idiots," she murmured, just loudly enough for Cody to hear. Cody grinned as he forced himself to calm down. Annoyed though he was at Lisa's yelling and the current very cramped situation, things could be worse.

I could be the one stuck with Ryan's tail in my face, after all, he thought, chuckling a little.

Isola saw him laughing and smiled a bit herself; like Cody, she had guessed that they were hardly in any danger, and so she had no real need to be worried. For the moment, at least.

"Um, everyone, do quiet down for a moment! I'm afraid we've made a mistake!" a pokémon from below yelled.

"About time you realized that!" Lisa said as she and the rest of her team glanced down at the one who had spoken, a deerling who was standing next to Galvantula.

The galvantula turned to the deerling. "What are you talking about, Emma? They're obviously the pokémon that those other brats said were coming!"

Emma shook her head. "The other three were ground-types, weren't they? Don't you think these pokémon would be, too?"

"But they're even threatening to attack us!" Galvantula argued.

"Well, we did trap them in a net for no good reason, didn't we?" Emma said, smiling.

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Had the penciled-in art finished before today. And I liked it. The background was sort of plain and the perspective was a bit off and Cody looked a bit weird, but it was good otherwise. Emma and Galvantula especially came out well.

Then... I realized I needed to actually draw the net. Specifically, those Arceus-forsaken webs. lasjf;la ksj fd;lasjd;fl It was that terrible. So I stopped really trying at that point. And then I went and did the inking/outlining, and screwed up my otherwise gorgeous deerling and galvantula, both in the outlining itself and the following smearing of ink... And that's when I stopped caring, slapped the rest of the colors on that I hadn't done already, and called it good.

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I really, really want a drawing tablet or something. I just feel like it'd make a lot of things so much easier, and (maybe) speed up what little improvement I've managed so far. I've been thinking about getting one for a while, but I didn't want to invest in one until I was sure that I wanted to keep on trying to improve and keep up these drawings... And until I had a job, so that the $100 or so investment wasn't completely stupid. I think I'd be up for it now... Though I'll still probably wait a while. If I can't improve with traditional media, than hoping that I'll improve using a table is probably wishful thinking.

In the event that I do get one, does anyone have any suggestions as to what model I should get? Right now, I'm looking at the Bamboo Capture, since it seems to fit my needs without being as insanely expensive as other models... But then again, I'm not sure.

Description
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Defenders of Warmth
Excerpt from Chapter Eight: Team Misfits
Full Chapter: [link]
Previous Chapter's Art: [link]
Next Chapter's Art: [link]
Location: Sheltered Vale

Before he could finish his question, the entire world seemed to flip as Cody felt himself get yanked upwards. In the blur of sudden motion, he felt something lifting up on his body, and he saw the rest of Team Misfits getting lifted up along with him…

…and then, before any of them really knew what had happened, they were crammed together in a net of vines and spider webs, hanging from several strong tree branches.

"Reshiram and Zekrom above, what the heck is this!" Lisa yelled as she started to thrash about in hopes of getting down.

"Hey, cut it out! That hurts!" Ryan yelled at her.

"Can you guys keep it down?" Isola said in a whisper, her eyes wide with fear. "If there's this much here then-"

Cody was so used to being thrown around by Lisa that he practically didn't even feel inconvenienced by the netting; he simply grabbed ahold of the side to keep from laying on Isola, making her even more uncomfortable than the large pokémon already appeared to be. "I think it's a bit too late for that," he said. "The whole valley will have heard us by now. I mean, what with Ryan and Lisa-"

"Ah-hah! Caught you!"

The team looked down to see a group of pokémon running up; the pokémon in the lead, a galvantula, was the one who had just called out.

Once the group was near the net, the galvantula sparked with apparent satisfaction. "We already caught your friends, so there's no use struggling, you jerks!"

Ryan frowned. Or, rather, he frowned more so than he already had been in response to Lisa's struggles. "Friends? But we-"

"You idiots had better let the four of us down right now or I'm going to beat you all so hard that you'll move up north just to get as far away from me as possible!" Lisa yelled at the top of her voice, clearly infuriated.

"Ha! Like that's going to happen!" Galvantula said. "You guys deserve this for trying to mess with our valley right after we kicked out the last group of troublemakers!"

"DESERVE IT!" Lisa said, struggling so strongly that even Cody felt it on the opposite side of the net. "You pompous magikarp had better start apologizing, or I'm going to-"

"Just shut UP already, would you!" Cody shouted to Lisa. "Obviously there's been a misunderstanding, and-"

"You want me to beat you up here and now, Cody?" Lisa interrupted. "I'd be more than happy to oblige as warm up for taking care of these trap-using losers!"

In a barely louder-than-usual voice, Isola piped up, "Maybe we should all just calm down and-"

"Don't even try reasoning with them now, Isola," Ryan said. "Neither of them are going to listen to reason now. They're overreacting."

"Have I mentioned that your fur smells really bad when it's practically shoved up my NOSE, Ryan?" Lisa shouted. "I'm practically passing out now! This is NOT overreacting! Bathe every once and a while!"

In mock horror, Ryan replied, "I take offense at that, my dear Lisa! I bathe at least once a year! You just happened to catch me in spring when my usual bathing season is summer."

Isola sighed. "We must sound like such idiots," she murmured, just loudly enough for Cody to hear. Cody grinned as he forced himself to calm down. Annoyed though he was at Lisa's yelling and the current very cramped situation, things could be worse.

I could be the one stuck with Ryan's tail in my face, after all, he thought, chuckling a little.

Isola saw him laughing and smiled a bit herself; like Cody, she had guessed that they were hardly in any danger, and so she had no real need to be worried. For the moment, at least.

"Um, everyone, do quiet down for a moment! I'm afraid we've made a mistake!" a pokémon from below yelled.

"About time you realized that!" Lisa said as she and the rest of her team glanced down at the one who had spoken, a deerling who was standing next to Galvantula.

The galvantula turned to the deerling. "What are you talking about, Emma? They're obviously the pokémon that those other brats said were coming!"

Emma shook her head. "The other three were ground-types, weren't they? Don't you think these pokémon would be, too?"

"But they're even threatening to attack us!" Galvantula argued.

"Well, we did trap them in a net for no good reason, didn't we?" Emma said, smiling.

*********************************************

Had the penciled-in art finished before today. And I liked it. The background was sort of plain and the perspective was a bit off and Cody looked a bit weird, but it was good otherwise. Emma and Galvantula especially came out well.

Then... I realized I needed to actually draw the net. Specifically, those Arceus-forsaken webs. lasjf;la ksj fd;lasjd;fl It was that terrible. So I stopped really trying at that point. And then I went and did the inking/outlining, and screwed up my otherwise gorgeous deerling and galvantula, both in the outlining itself and the following smearing of ink... And that's when I stopped caring, slapped the rest of the colors on that I hadn't done already, and called it good.

********************

I really, really want a drawing tablet or something. I just feel like it'd make a lot of things so much easier, and (maybe) speed up what little improvement I've managed so far. I've been thinking about getting one for a while, but I didn't want to invest in one until I was sure that I wanted to keep on trying to improve and keep up these drawings... And until I had a job, so that the $100 or so investment wasn't completely stupid. I think I'd be up for it now... Though I'll still probably wait a while. If I can't improve with traditional media, than hoping that I'll improve using a table is probably wishful thinking.

In the event that I do get one, does anyone have any suggestions as to what model I should get? Right now, I'm looking at the Bamboo Capture, since it seems to fit my needs without being as insanely expensive as other models... But then again, I'm not sure.