Chapter 222: Salvadore's science safari
Salvadore peered at his art book. Brock had gotten it for him during his recent trip to Celadon and it was a great gift!
It had everything Salvadore needed to take his scientific journals to the next level by improving the quality of his sketches. He wouldn’t have thought of using circles, squares, and triangles to get the shapes connecting like this, but thanks to his nifty little book, he’d started drawing the various pokemon in standard poses.
The easiest to draw were, of course, Geodude and Golem.
He had a lot of great models with Sanchez, Izumi, Moxy, and the various Onix. They were super easy to draw. Just roughed up circles over and over.
It got harder when he tried his hand at Jormungandr who had a lot more spikes. That one… was a work in progress. The biggest trick he’d found was keeping his drawings away from Bertha.
If she’d found out, she’d have insisted on him drawing nothing but her!
That meant he usually had to draw when she was distracted, and when she got close he focussed on the written parts of his investigations. Usually, all he had to do was recite a few facts such as a pokemon’s preferred diet being Cherri berries, or Oran. If that didn’t work he started analysing the dirt quality and that usually got her wandering off to find something more important to do.
He hoped he’d be good enough to draw her one day, but for now he didn’t want to offend her by doing a terrible job.
Just like he didn’t want Shin or Gawain to have terrible drawings. He was getting better! It just took time.