Delia used DIVE - by Shoxxe

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Ah yes, Delia Ketchum. AKA Hanako [ハナコ] to the Japanese fans. Every hormonal male fan's favorite PokéMom, making better use of her son's Totodile while he's out looking for more new monsters to train and ditch.

A while back, I helped out Shoxxe with something minor and he was feeling mighty generous. I threw a request up in the air (specified about I dunno...everything) and forgot about it for a while. Then this pretty little number showed up.

As soon as I rushed home from work, I set to color it of course.

In certain forums I usually birched and complained about how disappointing I found the full diving equipment in the Pokemon series (see Mantine Overboard) which was why I requested a type of design to use.

The reference colors I used came from Episode 18 on her swimsuit. Green was the main color used for her suit and gear.

Since the "accidental" coloring of Murrue, I figured to use the same Sugimori-esque coloring conventions as they'd be much more suiting for this piece. Just look at how Totodile turned out. Pleasant, just pleasant.

The underwater background is eased up so the colors can be seen better.

1998, 2008 Pokemon, Nintendo, TV Tokyo and OLM
Artwork by Shoxxe