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Published: 2019-10-20 23:07:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 4863; Favourites: 91; Downloads: 0
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Description What a dramatic piece of shit you are. Not going into the pokeball. Despite my excellent curveball throw. And the golden razz berry I gave you. I couldn't have done anything more, and it still wasn't enough for you. You're the worst, ugggghhhhh

I've had my original Darkrai in nearly every Pokemon game I've ever played, so long as I could migrate him over. He was a bitch and a half to catch back when I was younger - and as an event Pokemon, you only had one shot to do it right without resetting. It took me, like, an hour or more to get him to stay in the ball. I always seen him as having a lot of attitude because of that. That one friend who always comes in clutch but is so sarcastic you can't tell when they're making jokes or being serious. Honestly though, once I got him to level 100, he was basically the ace in my corner. I had him forget nightmare in favor of Psychic. Eventually, when Fairy-Types were introduced, I had him swap out Dream Eater for Sludge Bomb. Most people just expected me to spam Dark Void until I got somewhere; I beat up a lot of my brother's friends doing the exact opposite. I'm not the type of trainer to use status moves, I just beat the hell out of things and hope for the best. 

Darkrai was, and is, my favorite Pokemon, and has been ever since I was like. 10. I fell in love with its debut movie, and I'm kind of embarrassed of the lengths I went to in order to acquire any merch of it possible. I honestly couldn't tell you why I gravitated towards it so much - maybe I was always destined to be an edgy goth and it was a calling card, I don't know. The deepest answer I can give you is that I liked the message the movie provided: Darkrai scared people, but it always did what it could to protect the things it valued. For something that looked as nasty as it did, it didn't fight because it hated what was in front of it - it loved what was behind it. Maybe that's just a bullshit reason I'm using to hide my weird love for it behind. Maybe it's 100% accurate and I'm just bashing myself, who knows. I'm getting back into the habit of drawing things I enjoy, and that's all I really care about.


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CryptidKitteh [2020-09-28 03:51:32 +0000 UTC]

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SkyDancer27 [2020-06-04 16:40:53 +0000 UTC]

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Inudoragon23 [2019-10-31 03:10:19 +0000 UTC]

Holy shit, are you me??? Your description of experiences with Darkrai in your life sounds verrryyyy similar to mine!

Also, when I do Darkrai doodles once in a while I tend to make him a sarcastic sunnofabitch too lmaooo

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I-MAGE-D In reply to Inudoragon23 [2019-11-05 04:02:49 +0000 UTC]

I am she, yknow

It's a Whole Brand imo and I'll never let it go. Esp now. Bc all I wanna do is redraw all my old nasty art of them now-

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The9Tard [2019-10-28 04:00:14 +0000 UTC]

Wow these are awesome doodles. You're a lot better at drawing them than I am XD they're a pain in the ass to draw I think it's his weird...chest...collar thing...


But a good boi nevertheless.

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I-MAGE-D In reply to The9Tard [2019-10-28 18:22:30 +0000 UTC]

Honestly that's only bc it was the first Pokemon I was ever dedicated to figuring out how to draw. Which is 0 surprise. But I still have a different take on the design, unfortunately. I don't put the red ring super close to the head, and I make them in descending order of size from the middle one, rather than the middle one being the biggest and the rest all of similar sizes. I can also see that I d e f i n i t e l y beef up the forearms more, which I shouldn't bc it's not a heavy physical attacker. The "skirt" is always a problem too. But I do rlly enjoy making the species expressive in some way.

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The9Tard In reply to I-MAGE-D [2019-11-05 07:38:42 +0000 UTC]

EYYY it's fine to make a few alterations. People have noted in my Poke-Tales comics I draw Pokemon in a different kind of style. I kinda like it when artists do that cause it's like their own interpretation of Pokemon.


YEAH the skirt can be really hard too especially with his whispy tail, but I like the expressions! Normally Darkrais always look pissed off so it's fun to see them emoting differently.


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HalloweenPanda [2019-10-22 02:19:05 +0000 UTC]

is a good boy. I never had one in my party,, but they look like a really awesome pokemon to battle with. 

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I-MAGE-D In reply to HalloweenPanda [2019-10-22 03:05:10 +0000 UTC]

is a pain in the ass. If I'm being objective, they're glass cannons - great speed and special attack but noooot the best defense. Which is tbh why I never fucked around too much with Dark Void unless I knew 100% it was gonna work for a while. Otherwise it was just. Yknow. Obliterating the opponent. 

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Kuixotic [2019-10-20 23:27:13 +0000 UTC]

WOOO LOOK AT THEM RAI DOODLES
I still have yet to go out and catch mine which is agonizing as I live close enough to a gym I can see spawns (I actually watched in real time a Darkrai spawn and disappear in the dead of night through a tropical storm and it felt like higher beings were laughing big time) but sooooon.
Yknow those are solid reasons to love this pokemon and I feel big time on that, but I too had an embarrassing reasoning behind my gravitation and it was because for many years I shared the same height as a Darkrai and just found that as a confidence booster throughout the end of elementary/start of middle school where I went from being a Tall Kid to the shortest thing in the span of a summer after everyone's growth hormones kicked in simultaneously. The idea I shared height with what I considered and idol and hero was just v nice for 10-13 year old me.

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I-MAGE-D In reply to Kuixotic [2019-10-21 03:33:12 +0000 UTC]

all made with the rage of a thousand dying suns-
I hope you have better luck than I did. I literally couldn't have done anything more perfect and it still was like. One shake and out. I would be less annoyed by it if it had been like a three shake and out deal, but it was an excellent curveball. With a Golden Razz. And still. It shook. Once. Then popped out and ran away and I'm never going to forgive it for that disrespect-
O man,,,,ngl sometimes I forget Darkrai is only like,,, 4'11"??? I always draw Big Bad Sandman but the species is literally a Whole Foot shorter than me. But listen man,,,if the comparison gave u confidence, then it was a Good Reason I Support. I definitely feel that in terms of like. Validating the way you look to some extent??? Like, I only see out of one eye - the other's there but it's kinda useless - so I always had bangs that fell over it and that was the subject of a Lot of jokes in grade school. But like, fuck 'em, yknow bc I Too am powerful enough to fight the gods and die an Icon-
I just think it's really amazing that kids can just. Latch onto things they see themselves in. Before they even really grasp what media literacy or projection of identity are. Then they're told that it's Cringey so they stop...but that part of them never really goes away, so reclaiming it is just essential to be comfortable with themselves, even if it's embarrassing. It's just so. Intense???

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Kuixotic In reply to I-MAGE-D [2019-10-21 03:57:35 +0000 UTC]

I am n o t looking forward to trying to catch this phantom and the moment I do I'm getting as close as the system will let me to naming them "bastard" for a solid day or two but ohhhh god I would lose it if it raaaan
Tbh yeah I have this one specific rai character that is just a Giant for the species clocking at 5'7 and I still have to remind myself that I'm taller (by an inch) and heavier than this nightmare shadow on average and it's just *daunting* at times to recall the official info
Okay but honestly I feel on that God of War esque vibe and just exude this feral energy that manifests in saying "im gonna kill god" at any minor inconvenience so hooray for being a Legend-
Okay but that's spot on holy shit??????? Cringe culture is dead and honestly if it lets a kid discover themselves through media especially when in an environment that doesn't quite nurture that exploration more power to them tbh

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I-MAGE-D In reply to Kuixotic [2019-10-22 02:09:49 +0000 UTC]

You're powerful and I believe in u, go catch a bastard. Be better than me-
BRUUUH WHAT A MOOD I don't think I ever came up with a legit height for my old char but I always drew him Huge. Young me was like well I'm from a family of giants, surely an entity of nightmares and darkness personified would be Bigg but n o them smol and they just gotta. Stick leggies out to fool everyone into believing they tall. 
Honestly fuck cringe culture I'm too old to care now and the more apologetically and unproblematically self indulgent we grow, the more powerful we become-

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