Riolu's First Christmas

Edit: After God knows how many times it's been stolen and posted elsewhere, I've been forced to watermark this. Sorry guys :\

THIS TOOK FOREVER! But I'm proud ; w ; This is literally my first full digital painting and my first drawing done with my new Wacom Intuos4!
I never want to go back to Wacom Bamboo! I don't know what makes it so different but I find my brush strokes to be 100 times more beautiful!

Anyway, I decided to do this pokemon project from tumblr: fastpuck.tumblr.com/post/13604…
I unfortunately missed the one for December 1st but I plan to make it a little later today. It might not be as detailed as this one, but I'll figure something out c:

Haha it's funny that this started out with a webcam picture of a doodle I made! i37.photobucket.com/albums/e80…

Paint tool Sai
Wacom Intuos4 small
Approx. 6 hours

(c) Art to me. Please do not use anywhere else!
(c) Riolu to Nintendo and Ken Sugimori