For this week’s edition of FanArt Friday, the Pokémon Blog’s Team is happy to feature the incredible artist David García also known as DC ALLEY.
The Mexican illustrator revealed that art has always been a crucial part of his life.
“Since I was a child, I was one of those kids who scratched the walls and filled notebooks with the drawings of the cartoons I saw. My parents always supported me and pushed me to take (Art) courses and workshops. The truth is that I was never good at directing what I did graphically with art teachers, and I always ended up doing what I wanted… I was very undisciplined, to be honest,” He shared.
David shared that he’s a big fan of Art exhibitions. He has a special fondness for Classical Art.
“I nourish my creativity by consuming a lot of music, movies, series, and books. I am very restless. I think that, in conclusion, Art is the backbone of who I am as a person. Unfortunately, I am not good at sciences or sports, so Art is my backbone,” he explained to the Pokémon Blog’s Team.
The illustrator said Pokémon is also a significant part of his life. “I’ve been a fan since I was a 10-year-old, and I watched the anime for the first time. I grew up with the anime since it first aired on TV. Since then, I’ve been very close to video games and the evolution of the Pokémon franchise through my friends.”
When asked about his opinion regarding the ending of Ash and Pikachu’s adventures, David said it was melancholic, just like how it feels when any cycle ends. And in this case, that feeling increases since the Pokémon anime was something he saw evolve and mature throughout the years.
“My relationship with the original Pokémon anime was very close until the third generation, but then I let it go. I feel like the series is something you start with as a kid and then let go to welcome other kids into the Pokémon World… It’s great to know that Ash finally concluded his dream; it would have been frustrating to continue his adventure forever without giving the character a successful closure. If Ash could, we all can.“
He expressed he hasn’t watched the battle between Ash and Leon or the final episode yet. He has only seen the memes, but he thinks it’d be nice to sit down and watch the last arc of the anime.
When he was a child, our featured artist tried to draw the 151 Pokémon of the first generation (“with background and everything”) on legal-sized papers. “I think I didn’t even get to the first 100,” he added.
But that particular project sowed the seeds of a very prolific career as an illustrator and helped him to work on more Pokémon-related projects ever since. Including the one he made with one of his beloved friends: “We made a dynamic in which we gathered artists from all over the world so that everyone could interpret a Pokémon with their own style. The project was called Mexadex, and it was an association with the brand Dekoboko Jams.”
https://www.behance.net/mexadex
The Mexican artist considers combining Pokémon with Illustration is fun but sometimes overwhelming because “you’d always end up drawing more Pokémon than you expected and less than you’d like to do.”
Pokémon has become the principal theme of David’s artworks in the past year, and he has noticed that his skills and technique have improved a lot.
Following his love for classic things, David chose Charizard as his favorite Pokémon, but he admitted: “It’s difficult to choose just one Pokémon out of more than 1000 available.”
David will continue creating beautiful illustrations, playing Pokémon games online with his friends, and walking around Paldea because, as he said, “Pokémon es Amor <3,” and it will always be.
Don’t forget you can follow our featured artist on his Social Media Accounts:
https://www.instagram.com/dc.alley
https://www.facebook.com/dcalley01
https://www.behance.net/dcalley
https://www.twitter.com/DC_Alley
Let’s see more of David’s art below:
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I loved the article, it brought me to tears. I love his art, and his creativity.
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