Artist is Designing Starter Pokemon for Every US State
Community-derived Fakemon creatures have been around for almost as long as Pokemon itself, but the notion of fan-made pocket monsters truly proliferated as new games and generations began to come out at a faster pace. There have even been full fan-made games featuring completely unofficial and custom-designed "Pokemon" in lieu of Gamefreak's own designs.
Talented artist BromoJumbo is now taking the concept of fan-made Pokemon to an entirely new level, however. He is now working on a full-featured set of starter Fakemon for each of the 50 US States. This huge project is now in its nascent stages, but BromoJumbo is intent on seeing it through.
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The artist has come up with four states' worth of Fakemon up until now: Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, and Washington, with plenty more to come in the near future. It's worth pointing out, of course, that BromoJumbo has got a long history of designing extremely impressive Fakemon, to the point where they wouldn't look out of place in an official Pokemon game. One of his previous designs was a Lechonk evolution concept for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, in fact.
BromoJumbo's penchant for designing impressively official-looking Fakemon isn't going unnoticed, either. Since the full list of Pokemon revealed for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet is rather short at this time, many fans are now looking into the artist's custom designs, which are even more impressive when taking into account that BromoJumbo is also going through full evolution lines, which means he is working on nine Fakemon for each US state.
This means that, by the time BromoJumbo is done, he will have come up with a whopping 450 Fakemon designs, which is roughly three or even four generations' worth of pocket
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