but nah if I remember right the Omastar is really just hugging him out of affection

I hate Professor Oak's BW design, but I like how they kept it consistent re: who he was standing next to in the far shot and the close shot

they didn't have to do that but they did

so that's nice

stares at that tiny bit of exposed chest I am seeing it O_O

(but god the rectangular eyebrows do NOT work)

(they make him look like "my eyebrows are pastede on yey")

I was gonna say "congratulations to this art and ONLY this art for making the rectangular eyebrows work" but I realized they're not even rectangular here

the medial bit seems thinner than the dorsal bit, so they're more trapezoidal

I think we can all agree that this is NOT Professor Oak though

this is Looker disguised as Professor Oak

that mouth? Those big round eyes? All Looker

...and idk wtf's up with his fingers being all long and dainty

his fingers are normally shorter and thicker

those hands look like they could belong to sycamore

oh apparently the meme is "i am looking respectfully" now

(something else I hate about BW Professor Oak: Why the fuck is he so PALE)

I got really attached to his beautiful medium-dark olive skin from OS okay T_T

like I think he might even be paler than Ash in that pic when he's always been slightly darker than Ash before >>

not gonna go in and do color drops but yeah just eyeballing

Here's some animation I miss, I don't think they do stuff like this anymore?

Where the black "flares out" from the ball if that makes sense