Summer Vacation - Day 6: Slowwwww... Post?

HGSS Swimmer Kendra is finally here, along a reworked Slowpoke family!

Our final* (*not really) Swimmer is here! Well, final rework at least. I went a LITTLE extra with her, with some alt hair colors/styles for some outfit slots. It's not much, but a little extra. Still, though, she may be my favorite Swimmer release yet.

I'm not gonna lie, Slowpoke's been on my table to rework for a long time; her original release wasn't the best, and actually gave me some creepy vibes depending on the angle, given the proportions of her face were off.

She's cuter now.

Particularly to note, something which both her and Slowbro share: The white tip added to her hair, which was made using a custom ColorMask overlay (not too difficult to do, tbh), to replicate Slowpoke's famous white-tipped pink tail, also represented in her sprite.

Slowbro also had major adjustments made to her face, body, and outfits, just like Slowpoke did. Additionally, her shell has been modified to use HEXA Horns instead of basic shapes, which conveniently save a few slots while looking better since it's partially textured.

Her hair was also redesigned, but the main difference between these and the sprites is the addition of a small hat, but no "eyes" included. I don't know why the Moemon artist responsible for this included eyes, but it's creepy. I guess it's not bad if you look at it like a silly theme park hat, though.

Slowking saw the biggest alteration as her sprite has gone through a few alterations since originally released. In fact, even the sprite I used as a base inspiration for her previous release was not the original:

This was actually an Entei sprite that someone recolored to look like Slowking, but it was ultimately never used. While I do like that sprite, it obviously isn't very consistent with the rest of the family, nor does it really even represent Slowking very well.

Her other sprites were never up-to-par either, so it was more of a convenient timing that the above finished sprite came out in the past month or two in time for me to do this side-reworking-project-thing. Anyways, she comes complete with a crown and scepter, both of which were custom assembled, of course.

And they all come in Shiny forms, for completionist's sake.

Here are the cards:

HGSS Swimmer Kendra - https://files.catbox.moe/ogvs3f.png 

#079 Slowpoke - https://files.catbox.moe/qvcme8.png
#080 Slowbro - https://files.catbox.moe/nnv4xo.png
#199 Slowking - https://files.catbox.moe/vbxkss.png 

#079 Slowpoke (Shiny) - https://files.catbox.moe/2r41vf.png
#080 Slowbro (Shiny) - https://files.catbox.moe/18pl30.png
#199 Slowking (Shiny) - https://files.catbox.moe/gegqli.png 

Enjoy!

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Still trying to get back on schedule here. Since the final Summer Vacation post is a rather large one as well, it's going to take a couple of more days to finish. Meanwhile, I'll be releasing a small set in-between to fill that gap. Hopefully things can get back on track here soon enough, but either way, once we finish this set out we'll have an update post detailing most of the releases this planned for this month.

But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.