This...isn't really early concept art.
That's official art Pokemon art Ken Sugimori drew and was used in multiple mediums like walkthroughs and the likes.
I was expecting something like his actual water color pictures, which were really well done.
Either through company policy or his own sense of privacy he keeps a lot of his early concept work under lock and key.
Which I guess is understandable. From my understanding I think a lot of Pokemon designs that don't make it into current games get sent over to their next games.
For instance, on Bulbapedia they found a scrapped sprite of Gastrodon in the Ruby and Sapphire games, yet the monster officially "released" in Diamond and Pearl.
That's official art Pokemon art Ken Sugimori drew and was used in multiple mediums like walkthroughs and the likes.
I was expecting something like his actual water color pictures, which were really well done.
Either through company policy or his own sense of privacy he keeps a lot of his early concept work under lock and key.
Which I guess is understandable. From my understanding I think a lot of Pokemon designs that don't make it into current games get sent over to their next games.
For instance, on Bulbapedia they found a scrapped sprite of Gastrodon in the Ruby and Sapphire games, yet the monster officially "released" in Diamond and Pearl.
