It's a snaaakkkee, Ohhhh it's a snake (badger, badger, badger, badger, badger badger badger badger, Mushroom, Mushroommmmm)!
Spent a little more time on Ekans than I planned to, but it paves way for the alteration of the neck-band into something that more resembles the pattern on Arbok's hood. Arbok'll get a bit more yellow into their design as well to match!
Feel like this guy got a bad rep early on because he belonged to Team Rocket a lot and in the manga is often owned by the villains (Arbok included) but kind of a cutie!
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Ekanssss! You know for the longest time I didn't really care for the design of this critter or Arbok, but I'm definitely liking them in your style! Dat scale texture is looking awesome :D