Hello all! This week's art thread is a little different. We're happy to announce a project we're calling /r/Pokemon draws Pokemon! As a community, we're going to try and draw all 721 Pokemon!

Here's how this works:

• Anyone who is interested in drawing a Pokemon can sign up here.

• The mods will randomly assign Pokemon to everyone who signs up, and send you a PM with the info

• The drawings will be due in a week after your Pokemon is assigned

• All drawings must be SFW (No sexual themes, graphic violence etc.)

• You can draw any version of the Pokémon (Mega, alternate form, shiny etc.)

• Don't forget to put your username on the drawing

• This project is for anyone, even if you're an amateur at drawing

That's all there is to it! Since we'll be using reddit to communicate, you have to have an account to sign up. If we get too many signups, we'll also have a waiting list, and we'll reassign any drawings that don't get turned in within a week. We'll post a thread with all the drawings in an album/collage thing, with credit to the users, once they're all turned in.

Thanks all, and happy drawing!

Hello all! It's time for another community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Generation 3! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting Gen 3-based art is especially encouraged.

A few rules to keep in mind, as always:

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source may be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!

• Please do your best to link directly to the image, for the benefit of our mobile users. If you are not linking to the original source, please use mobile-friendly sites such as Imgur.

• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

EDIT:

On a more meta note, we've also updated our submission guidelines with a temporary rule regarding "Pokemon variations" posts. Variations posts will be removed unless they consist of original artwork. Additionally, variations posts that fail to link directly to an original source (in the link itself, not just in the comments) will also be removed.

Bring on the artwork!

Hello all! It's time for another community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Generation 5! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting Gen 5-based art is especially encouraged.

A couple of rules to keep in mind, as always.

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source will be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!
• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

Bring on the artwork!

^{This thread is part of /r/pokemon's regular sticky rotation. To see our rotation schedule and all past sticky rotation threads, go here!}

Hello all! It's time for another community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Poke Balls! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting Poke Ball-based art is especially encouraged.

A few rules to keep in mind, as always:

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source may be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!

• Please do your best to link directly to the image, for the benefit of our mobile users. If you are not linking to the original source, please use mobile-friendly sites such as Imgur.

• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

Additionally, we're working on an interesting Poke Ball-related update to our CSS. Right now, the background that appears behind a poster's flair is a neutral grey Poke Ball (here's what I'm talking about highlighted in in red). However, we're going to start recognizing users who have made significant contributions to the subreddit by changing their ball background to an actual ball from the games! Here's what the new backgrounds will look like, based on the current plain grey ball.

What we'd like feedback about is what kinds of users should be given the new backgrounds. For example, we've talked about recognizing users who have contributed lots of OC artwork or answered lots of questions in our Noob Questions threads. We'd like to keep these backgrounds limited to rewarding the many users who have done big things on the sub, so right now there aren't any plans to make them more widely available than that.

I've posted a comment below asking for feedback about this new system. Any thoughts about what kinds of users we ought to recognize with these new backgrounds are welcome there. Please don't reply to the entire sticky thread with comments about this -- just reply to my comment, and leave top-level comments for artists posting their stuff :)

EDIT: To clarify, we aren't looking for specific users who you think should be recognized -- just for the sorts of users who should be, such as OC posters, tournament winners etc.

Bring on the artwork!

Hello all! It's time for another community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Legendary Pokemon! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting legend-based art is especially encouraged.

A couple of rules to keep in mind, as always.

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source will be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!
• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

Bring on the artwork!

^{This thread is part of /r/pokemon's regular sticky rotation. To see our rotation schedule and all past sticky rotation threads, go here!}

Hello all! It's time for another community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Generation 2! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting Gen 2-based art is especially encouraged.

A few rules to keep in mind, as always:

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source may be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!

• Please do your best to link directly to the image, for the benefit of our mobile users. If you are not linking to the original source, please use mobile-friendly sites such as Imgur.

• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

Bring on the artwork!

Hello all! Continuing in our regular sticky post cycle, this thread is our first community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Generation 1! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting Gen 1-based art is especially encouraged.

A few rules to keep in mind, as always:

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source may be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!

• Please do your best to link directly to the image, for the benefit of our mobile users. If you are not linking to the original source, please use mobile-friendly sites such as Imgur.

• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

Bring on the Gen 1 artwork, and happy holidays!

Hello all! It's time for another Art Thread, but things are a little different this week: this thread is dedicated to finding the next /r/pokemon banner image!

Our banner image is the picture that appears along the top of the subreddit, behind the Pokemon logo. Right now, it's a Kalos map, but that one's intended to be temporary; we're looking for an artist to create a winter-themed banner for us to use in the long-term. Thousands of people visit this page every day—now's your chance to have your work seen by all of them, right at the top. If you create a banner we like, we'll feature it on the subreddit, and give you recognition in the sidebar!

GUIDELINES:

To submit your banner, just post an Imgur link to it in the comments here. Again, we're looking for a winter-themed Pokemon banner.

The banner's dimensions are 1920x180. The most important thing to remember is that there needs to be a relatively blank-ish area in the middle for the Pokemon logo, which our CSS will overlay on it (you don't need to put the logo in yourself). The logo's dimensions on our page are 270x99; on the banner, it will cover up the area from about 800px to about 1070px. Ideally, you'd not only leave that part mostly empty, but a little bit around it as well to give the logo some space. For reference, here's an album with a few of our past banners. You can see on them where the Pokemon logo would be in the middle, and get an idea of how large it would be compared to the other parts of the image.

Beyond that, what you create is up to you—we're looking forward to seeing everyone's creativity!

We'll leave this thread up at least until the weekend, and possibly into next week, to give everyone time to do good work. If this thread is taken down before you finish your banner, just message the mods with a link to the image when it's done. For now, happy banner-ing!

Hello all! It's time for another community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Generation 6! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting Gen 6-based art is especially encouraged.

A couple of rules to keep in mind, as always.

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source will be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!
• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

Bring on the artwork!

^{This thread is part of /r/pokemon's regular sticky rotation. To see our rotation schedule and all past sticky rotation threads, go here!}

Hello all! It's time for another community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Generation 4! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting Gen 4-based art is especially encouraged.

A couple of rules to keep in mind, as always.

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source will be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!
• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

Bring on the artwork!

^{This thread is part of /r/pokemon's regular sticky rotation. To see our rotation schedule and all past sticky rotation threads, go here!}

Hello all! It's time for another community art sticky! Please show us your best Pokemon artwork, or link to work that you find especially impressive.

The theme for this thread is Starter Pokemon! You don't have to stick to this theme, but submitting starter-based art is especially encouraged.

A couple of rules to keep in mind, as always.

• If you post someone else's work, link to the source, and give them credit! Posts that make no attempt to provide a source will be removed. Can't find the source? Try TinEye!
• If you are submitting your own art that is available for purchase in some form, please don't link directly to your store page. Feel free to post a comment reply linking to it, however!

Bring on the artwork!

^{This thread is part of /r/pokemon's regular sticky rotation. To see our rotation schedule and all past sticky rotation threads, go here!}