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You can’t just dump dead humans in my Pokémon burial building and say "no further questions", I demand an explanation!
There are no easy to read references in this image, m’lud!

I realised that the dark greyish blue in the NES colour palette looks kind of like a dark grey and it certainly looks better than using the 50 % brightness grey which is the darkest grey to colour dark grey or black things. I’m so glad I finally solved the biggest problem I had with the palette. I think black things are commonly coloured in a dark greyish blue when they have to be a bit lighter. Also, in the end I realised that Oshawott is a bit too small. They are supposed to be 0.5 m tall but I didn’t want to bother or have time to draw Oshawott again.

Drawing the drawing took very long, mostly because I have almost no experience drawing humans. I can draw a Riolu nicely and comparatively quickly now but, just like it still was not even a year ago with Riolu, I have no idea how to draw humans and thus it takes many hours and ctrl-z presses to eventually reach the quality "shit" which was also very demotivating. But 8-bit covers and drawing Riolu are no problem anymore and fun, so I just have to keep doing it. The background was frustrating as well, firstly the many vanishing point lines were annoying and secondly, the tower’s walls have pillars and between them bricks. Drawing those bricks perspectively perfectly would have been a nightmare so I didn’t want to do it but without them the background looked plain and boring. Maybe that would be a good thing because that way it doesn’t distract from the main focus of the scene but I decided to dither it to give it at least some texture, just like when I became desperate in terms of the integration of the cave background into the Aegis Cave drawing.

When I started the last and theoretically most fun part, decorating the gravestones, it was already late Friday night and my brain was half asleep, so it was difficult to think of creative things that are worthy of the person. I think I spent multiple hours trying to come up with worthy people and reading stuff about them to get ideas for worthy and creative decorations. Amarizo fortunately helped. Coincidentally, while I was reading about Satoru Iwata, very sad PMD 2 music started playing and I had to crumple a pair of tiny tears. Also, when I remembered Terry Jones talking about dead bodies in his court and wanted to watch the scene to see if I can find something to put on his gravestone (I couldn’t find it on YouTube), I read Netflix’s episode descriptions but there was nothing about that court sketch, so eventually I just clicked on a random episode. Coincidentally, when it started playing, my cursor was placed on the time bar at the bottom and a preview image of the time it was pointing at was showing. And coincidentally, I saw the court sketch. I guess, Terry came down from the light entertainment division in the sky to guide me so I wouldn’t have to get even less sleep. That was most attentive of you, Sir.

Description
You can’t just dump dead humans in my Pokémon burial building and say "no further questions", I demand an explanation!
There are no easy to read references in this image, m’lud!

I realised that the dark greyish blue in the NES colour palette looks kind of like a dark grey and it certainly looks better than using the 50 % brightness grey which is the darkest grey to colour dark grey or black things. I’m so glad I finally solved the biggest problem I had with the palette. I think black things are commonly coloured in a dark greyish blue when they have to be a bit lighter. Also, in the end I realised that Oshawott is a bit too small. They are supposed to be 0.5 m tall but I didn’t want to bother or have time to draw Oshawott again.

Drawing the drawing took very long, mostly because I have almost no experience drawing humans. I can draw a Riolu nicely and comparatively quickly now but, just like it still was not even a year ago with Riolu, I have no idea how to draw humans and thus it takes many hours and ctrl-z presses to eventually reach the quality "shit" which was also very demotivating. But 8-bit covers and drawing Riolu are no problem anymore and fun, so I just have to keep doing it. The background was frustrating as well, firstly the many vanishing point lines were annoying and secondly, the tower’s walls have pillars and between them bricks. Drawing those bricks perspectively perfectly would have been a nightmare so I didn’t want to do it but without them the background looked plain and boring. Maybe that would be a good thing because that way it doesn’t distract from the main focus of the scene but I decided to dither it to give it at least some texture, just like when I became desperate in terms of the integration of the cave background into the Aegis Cave drawing.

When I started the last and theoretically most fun part, decorating the gravestones, it was already late Friday night and my brain was half asleep, so it was difficult to think of creative things that are worthy of the person. I think I spent multiple hours trying to come up with worthy people and reading stuff about them to get ideas for worthy and creative decorations. Amarizo fortunately helped. Coincidentally, while I was reading about Satoru Iwata, very sad PMD 2 music started playing and I had to crumple a pair of tiny tears. Also, when I remembered Terry Jones talking about dead bodies in his court and wanted to watch the scene to see if I can find something to put on his gravestone (I couldn’t find it on YouTube), I read Netflix’s episode descriptions but there was nothing about that court sketch, so eventually I just clicked on a random episode. Coincidentally, when it started playing, my cursor was placed on the time bar at the bottom and a preview image of the time it was pointing at was showing. And coincidentally, I saw the court sketch. I guess, Terry came down from the light entertainment division in the sky to guide me so I wouldn’t have to get even less sleep. That was most attentive of you, Sir.