How much of you make fan made Pokémon?

I like designing fanmade Pokémon. And I have enough artistic "skills" (in quotation marks because my art is still awful) to actually draw them, maybe even make them look official if I focus and study official artwork and what makes it look official a little bit. But I'm too busy and have been having a hard time motivating myself to actually draw fanart or something big instead of awful sketches of human heads and the occasional hand or horribly wrong sketches of bodies.

I drew one that turned out really well a few months ago, a lamb + bush starter, with a slightly dark beige body, lots of green wool/leaves, and pink eyes. It looked good and I think it followed the look of official starters properly, but I cannot draw a neat line and did not use any reference images for or do research on what bushes and sheep look like.

i have some fakemon designed!

Oops. I see a mention of whether AI is okay or not. Time to make a post about the topic that's way too long to spread awareness about how awful it is.

It is evil. The consequences of not needing skill, thought, or imagination to create images are terrifying. First of all, some artists in actual jobs are already getting replaced by AI, sometimes trained on their own art (in other words, now their main source of money that lets them live a somewhat normal life is gone). It has even tricked many art competitions (even though the images always had very obvious errors a human wouldn't make if they had enough skill to colour and draw those perspectives), while artists who worked for days, maybe weeks, just to make a single art piece, and have trained and practiced to be an artist for most of their life failed. Second, it has been used to impersonate people, even in real time, as both AI video and AI voices being very realistic now, and scam people they know. Third, it has created false images and videos of people doing things they didn't, which in some countries and cultures, could result in actual death for the victims of that. Fourth, it steals millions of copyrighted (and non-copyrighted) images and drawings, without asking the artist(s), informing them, mentioning them, or giving them anything, meaning it's literally illegal. But they used a legal loophole for that, and are making millions off of real people's hard work and skills that they trained for decades to achieve, while those people they stole from sometimes can't make enough money to live comfortably or be sure they're always going to have a roof above their head.

Even if the AI used is just a chatting AI, that does different damage that I won't write another twenty thousand sentences about it, and the company that owns it probably makes image AIs, and maybe voice AIs and even video or deepfake AIs too, and don't care about how inhumane it all is, just a shiny new technology that could make them money.

People really underestimate the actual power artists have, and now you don't need to work hard, to practice, to be smart, or anything but someone who knows English to mimic the power of being able to create anything. Stupid or selfish people tend to not be artists because it takes many years of really hard work (and a working brain to memorise all the rules, theories, correct anatomy, and tricks that make it all look good) to create something even acceptable or decent, which meant that you rarely saw malicious things. But now, that's changed. (Note: I might be focusing on art more, but the same goes for other kinds of things. It takes lots of skill to mimic voices, to do photography, to write a story, etc.)

@BlaziiBoi I don't use AI. I used clip studio paint for my drawings.

Already I already created a Pokémon, which I even named, and this Pokémon I created was a grass-type puppy and is a grass-type starter, and I drew more because I imagine that in gen 10 there might be a grass-type dog Pokémon as a starter.