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Description
Dates: 7/16/23-8/24/23 (Took 5 days)

Artist's Notes:

Name: Shellos, Zeppelon

Type: Water /Electric

Name Origins: N/A
Zeppelin + dragon/Gastrodon

Inspiration: Blue dragon sea slug (blue glaucus), the Nantucket sea monster, Thanksgiving Day parade balloons, blimps and zeppelins

Blue dragon sea slugs are one of those organisms that appear in every "top however many animals that should have a pokemon based on them" list or video on the internet, so I thought I might as well include my own interpretation. I figured I would have too many dragon and poison types (You'll see by the end of this series) so I made it electric instead. One little known thing about the blue glaucus is that it actually floats upside down on the water's suface using an air sac in its belly. I couldn't really think of a way to depict it floating upside down so I instead based it on parade balloons and floats. Interestingly, parade balloons have more of a connection with sea serpents than one might initially think. In the summer of 1937 large footprints began appearing on the beach of Nantucket. A few days later a sea monster floated out of the ocean and onto the beach. The "sea monster" in actuality was a balloon created by a man named Tony Sarg in order to promote his most famous creation, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. Zeppelon would probably have the ability Levitate.

Description
Dates: 7/16/23-8/24/23 (Took 5 days)

Artist's Notes:

Name: Shellos, Zeppelon

Type: Water /Electric

Name Origins: N/A
Zeppelin + dragon/Gastrodon

Inspiration: Blue dragon sea slug (blue glaucus), the Nantucket sea monster, Thanksgiving Day parade balloons, blimps and zeppelins

Blue dragon sea slugs are one of those organisms that appear in every "top however many animals that should have a pokemon based on them" list or video on the internet, so I thought I might as well include my own interpretation. I figured I would have too many dragon and poison types (You'll see by the end of this series) so I made it electric instead. One little known thing about the blue glaucus is that it actually floats upside down on the water's suface using an air sac in its belly. I couldn't really think of a way to depict it floating upside down so I instead based it on parade balloons and floats. Interestingly, parade balloons have more of a connection with sea serpents than one might initially think. In the summer of 1937 large footprints began appearing on the beach of Nantucket. A few days later a sea monster floated out of the ocean and onto the beach. The "sea monster" in actuality was a balloon created by a man named Tony Sarg in order to promote his most famous creation, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. Zeppelon would probably have the ability Levitate.