Pokemon Fan Creates Badge Designs for Some Pokemon

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Fanmade artwork produced by the Pokemon community often takes many forms, with one artist sharing a variety of their own hexagonal badge designs featuring some of the most beloved critters encountered throughout the Pokemon world. This set of designs comes as just one entry in a much larger series of similar works created by the artist, and has caught the eyes of many members of the thriving Pokemon community.

Pokemon fan art has seemingly witnessed an explosion of popularity recently, particularly since the release of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. The Pokemon community has always been a particularly creative one, with the shared love of the series' virtual companions inspiring no end of conceptual creature designs, homemade merchandise, and even completely fanmade Pokemon games over the years. While Pokemon fan work frequently comes in many different forms, one subgenre of Pokemon-related artwork has accumulated a fair amount of popularity over the past year.

This artwork takes the form of various hexagonal badge-like designs which each depict a certain Pokemon or item design from the game's world. These designs come from an artist known across social media known as PokeHexDex, who has been consistently sharing new designs online as part of a running series. While some of these pieces include badges which depict certain Poke Ball designs rather than Pokemon, one of the creator's latest designs features some well-loved Pokemon such as Decidueye, Swampert, Noivern, Hisuian Zoroark, and many more.

While Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have introduced plenty of new Pokemon, bringing the total number of unique species to over 1,000, many fan favorites from previous titles clearly retain their popularity among the community to this