Welcome to my Retro Pokésprites website.

My name is Adam. I’m a wildlife biologist by trade, vet nurse by day, pixel artist by night, and a lifelong Pokémon fan!

February 27th 2021 was the 25th anniversary of the release of the original Pokémon Red & Blue games in Japan (1996). I was born the following year, so I missed the original Pokémania, but some 6 years later I received a discarded copy of Pokémon Silver and a backless Glacier Gameboy Advance from my grandpa—my very first Pokémon game. I’ve been a fan ever since.

I began making pixel art in August of 2020 after a virtual console playthrough of Pokémon Gold on my 3DS. To honor the nostalgic retro style of that game, I decided to design sprites for newer Pokémon using the graphic restrictions present in the game that started it all for me:

56x56 pixel max
4 colors per sprite (including black and white)

I started my Instagram page in February 2021 to celebrate Pokémon25. I began by posting my sprites for Gen 3 Pokémon from Ruby and Sapphire and have been working my way through the Pokédex ever since.

Thankfully, there’s no shortage of Pokémon to inspire my art. I plan to continue retro-fying the Pokémon world for the foreseeable future and hope my art evokes the same feelings of comfort and nostalgia in others that it brings to me.