Pokemon Fan Redesigns Bulbasaur and Its Evolutions

Key Takeaways

• Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur are popular and recognizable due to being part of Pokemon’s original lineup.
• One fan has given creative redesigns to the Bulbasaur line, giving all three new bipedal appearances.
• The artist also redesigned Charmander and other Pokemon, showcasing impressive new interpretations of classic creatures.

A talented Pokemon fan is redesigning Nintendo’s lineup of elementally empowered creatures, starting with Red and Blue’s Bulbasaur line. Every Pokemon generation has a trio of starter evolution lines that serve as the player’s first Pokemon, and Bulbasaur set the standard by not only being the first Grass-type starter option in the series, but the very first official Pokemon creature overall. When Bulbasaur reaches level 16, it evolves into the stronger Ivysaur, and once it hits level 32 it completes its evolution by becoming the hulking Venusaur.

Since Bulbasaur and its evolutions have been a part of the Pokemon franchise from the very beginning, it should come as little surprise that they remain some of the most popular and well-recognized in the series. Fan artists have offered up their own takes on Bulbasaur and its later forms, giving them impressive redesigns or imagining them as a different type like Ghost or Steel. Some more festive Pokemon fans have given Bulbasaur a more season-appropriate look with an autumn-inspired pumpkin design or icy winter variants.

Reddit user necrovvi recently began redesigning the original Pokemon Red and Blue line-up, including Bulbasaur and its evolutions. Bulbasaur itself has been transformed into a smaller, seedlike creature resembling a teddy bear, Ivysaur is now a bipedal creature with leafy hair that covers half its face, and Venusaur has become a tyrannosaurus-like beast with bright red claws and thorn-covered vines as tails. The artist also made Shiny variants for these new Bulbasaur redesigns, which have been compared by other Reddit users to the titular creatures of the similar Digimon franchise.

Pokemon Fan Gives Bulbasaur a Digimon-Like Redesign

Before posting their impressive Bulbasaur line redesigns, necrovvi shared their similar take on Charmander and its own evolutions, making them sleeker and more salamander-like. They have also created more humanoid versions of Pokemon Red and Blue starter evolutions Charizard and Venusaur, as well as more traditional renderings of other popular Pokemon across different generations.

Part of what makes the Pokemon franchise so endearing to so many fans is the variety of different monsters that are introduced with each new game, which in turn inspire them to either draw their own versions of these powerful and collectible creatures or create new ones outright. The artist behind these fan-made Bulbasaur evolution redesigns takes something of a middle approach, offering up radically different interpretations of characters that gamers have known for the past three decades that carry their own special charm.