Ever wondered how Shellder or Snorlax would look if they were human? Hold on tight because South Korean illustration artist Tamtamdi currently based in California, U.S. reimagines Pokémon as humans (more or less) and it's just as cute as you'd expect it to be.
The incredibly talented artist who prefers to stay anonymous has already drawn 254 Pokémon Gijinka illustrations, giving each and every one of them a specific character and distinguished looks. Tamtamdi told Bored Panda that it usually takes 30 min - 1 hour to finish one drawing. "The most important thing I care when I do the gijinka is capturing the first impression of the pokemon, and then the silhouette and the gesture!" said the artist. "Sometimes I just use them as a fashion reference," Tamtamdi added. It took about a year to draw them all and it looks like the artist is still going!
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Meowth
Tentacruel
Parasect
Omanyte
Rapidash
Charizard
Vulpix
Arbok
Ninetales
Oddish
Articuno
Grimer
Weedle
Vaporeon
Golbat
Beedrill
Primeape
Arcanine
Growlithe
Psyduck
Cubone
Blastoise
Moltres
Rattata
Wigglytuff
Bulbasaur
Squirtle
Zapdos
I love how it looks so traditional (more in a Chinese way though)
Well, the 3 legendary birds represent traditional Japanese, Korean and Chinese from the drawings. Moltres = Korean, Articuno = Japanese and with Zapdos = Chinese.
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Articuno wears Japanese style, Moltres wears Korean style (?), Zapdoz wears Chinese style.... Clever!!!
Zapdos is going to tear you to shreds, just by raising his left pinkie by 0.3 millimetres
Jolteon
Pikachu
Chansey
Mr. Mime
Mr. Mime is terrifying, but the human version looks good enough :)
never thought that most of my favorite pokemon will become females... But I like it. <3
I loved all of them! I only had slight frustration with one of them, the Pikachu, because the picture showed the actual Pikachu as male (female Pikachu have heart shaped tails), while the humanized Pikachu was female. Beside that, I absolutely loved all the art and hope to do something similar with this idea! (And I am very much late to this because most comments were from 4 years ago.) (I don't know why I feel the need to say this, but I am 11.)
OMFG I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
funny... listen to the pokemon soundtrack the moment i found this xDDDD
errrm.., more than one single artist do this "human form of pokemons" it's actually pretty popular among artists (manga/anime style) and got the name " pokemon gijinka" .. somehow, it looked like the ideia is just from one guy )= (obs: english isn't my native language, sorry for any writing mistakes)
this was better then some people who only speak english
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Cause this hasn't been happening o art sites since pokemon came out lol
I don't know the exactly translation, but, i guess is something like "if x were a human it shoud be like this" or "human form of" there's a lot of gijinkas like... gunball gijinkas, kirby gijinkas, yoshi gijinkas, digimon gijinkas, popular on websites focused more "anime/manga style"
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I love these illustrations, i think they perfectly fit in to the characteristics of the pokemon, which he had picked
Overall quite awesome, but where is Zapdos?! If we have Articuno and Moltres why isn't Zapdos too?!
Zapdos is in there now, no.44 :) personally I love it, too!
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I can't pretend that I wouldn't be annoyed going from Squirtle to Wartortle to Blastoise with these evolutions... Just when you get used to one body you get a completely different one...
never thought that most of my favorite pokemon will become females... But I like it. <3
I loved all of them! I only had slight frustration with one of them, the Pikachu, because the picture showed the actual Pikachu as male (female Pikachu have heart shaped tails), while the humanized Pikachu was female. Beside that, I absolutely loved all the art and hope to do something similar with this idea! (And I am very much late to this because most comments were from 4 years ago.) (I don't know why I feel the need to say this, but I am 11.)
OMFG I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
funny... listen to the pokemon soundtrack the moment i found this xDDDD
errrm.., more than one single artist do this "human form of pokemons" it's actually pretty popular among artists (manga/anime style) and got the name " pokemon gijinka" .. somehow, it looked like the ideia is just from one guy )= (obs: english isn't my native language, sorry for any writing mistakes)
this was better then some people who only speak english
Load More Replies... Cause this hasn't been happening o art sites since pokemon came out lol
I don't know the exactly translation, but, i guess is something like "if x were a human it shoud be like this" or "human form of" there's a lot of gijinkas like... gunball gijinkas, kirby gijinkas, yoshi gijinkas, digimon gijinkas, popular on websites focused more "anime/manga style"
Load More Replies... I love these illustrations, i think they perfectly fit in to the characteristics of the pokemon, which he had picked
Overall quite awesome, but where is Zapdos?! If we have Articuno and Moltres why isn't Zapdos too?!
Zapdos is in there now, no.44 :) personally I love it, too!
Load More Replies... I can't pretend that I wouldn't be annoyed going from Squirtle to Wartortle to Blastoise with these evolutions... Just when you get used to one body you get a completely different one...
