For this redesign, I made Rayquaza very dragon and serpent like. It’s definitely one of those designs where I actually did incorporate real world snakes such as bush and gaboon vipers to Rayquaza’s face but looking at eastern dragons as my reference too. Just like Mewtwo I wanted these redesigns to be as simple in order for them to be recognizable as Pokémon without pushing the design to far. Pretty much adding my design style and language into the Pokémon