[Rustboro City Gym] Roxanne Rocks!~ (Patreon)

Gym Leader Roxanne is here with her Nosepass!

There's a lot to unpack here, so let's get into it.

First, Gym Leader Roxanne had some fairly difficult hair to replicate, but after trying several dozen different options, I've settled on the above style, which I think came out quite well. I did think about doing slightly alternate hairstyles at one point, but it would have been the same silhouette, just using different hair parts. In the end, I went with the consistency of using just one style.

Now, here outfits..

These outfits are all based on different art, aside from the swimsuit. Here's the corresponding pieces:

...She's had a lot of different school uniforms.

Next up, let's chat about Nosepass.

Her sprite is a bit weird - she seems to be just.. holding a nose. While technically this is how it "appeared" in Gen 3, that isn't actually the canon design.

For example, the Gen 3 sprite:

But compare that to the Gen 4, HGSS, sprite:

And the official art:

This art is what I based the model on. Instead, it appears more like a 3D arrow, which is actually how it is described here:

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Nosepass is a blue, angular, hard bipedal Pokémon that closely resembles the Easter Island Heads. Its bright red, triangular nose is highly magnetic and slightly resembles a 3D arrow. This nose functions as an electromagnet and always points north. It has arms and legs without any visible joints and small, circular holes on the undersides. Its arms resemble compass needles. It has similar circular holes on the sides of its head. Its eyes, covered by dark, somewhat mask-like markings, have the appearance of being closed.

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All of this said, it still looks a bit funky in the screenshot. In practice, though, it looks better as a 3D model // in studio. And I'm referring to my card, of course. Aside from her gimmick, I think she came out quite cute in the face department.

Anyways, here are the cards:

Gym Leader Roxanne -  https://files.catbox.moe/i9y3ja.png 

#299 Nosepass -  https://files.catbox.moe/m0v6i2.png 

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PS!

This is probably going to be asked, but where is Probopass?!

Well, quite simply, I decided not to release Probopass yet. I was going to, but after thinking about it, I found a better candidate to release her with - and beside, Probopass is Gen 4 - and while I've released Gen 4 cards before, I'm trying hard to not do that at this time, to give more availability later on when we hit that Generation.

If you know your Pokemon games well, you can probably guess which particularly Rock-Type user I have in mind to release Probopass with ;)

Anyways, big update coming either tomorrow or Wednesday, see you then!