There's so many cool fan-made pokemon out there (often called fakemon). I originally came up with these designs when chatting casually with my pal and fellow animator Gerkinman. Then I sat on these ideas for quite a few months until I felt they had stewed long enough to be worth drawing. The general idea was to combine poppets/voodoo dolls with pickles to create a sort of rough raggedy series of little creatures that look mischievous, filthy, and hopefully cute.