The ultimate outcomes for the winner of the Pokemon TCG Illustration Contest 2024 are in, and I am in love with the profitable piece.
Earlier this yr, The Pokemon Firm held a contest for followers of the sequence to submit some artwork that if it received, could be made into an official Pokemon Buying and selling Card Sport card (oh the winner will get $5000 too, which is sweet). The outcomes of the competitors have lastly been introduced, and the winner is an artist by the identify of Kazuki Minami, who drew possibly the perfect Pikachu card I’ve ever seen. You possibly can see it on the finish of a video that reveals a bunch of the opposite submissions, or simply have a look at the highest of this web page, however for these of you that do not need to do both of these issues, it is a lovingly rendered piece displaying Pikachu yawning and scratching its head with its foot, full of such an actual sense of life that may be so exhausting to do.
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“I am really honored to obtain this prize,” Minami stated in an announcement. “As this was my first time collaborating on this contest, I wasn’t certain what to attract and the way to attract it. That is when my canine got here into my sight being cute – I used to be impressed to attract Pikachu in such a means that jogs my memory of my canine. So the prize belongs to my canine as a lot because it does to me, and we’re each extraordinarily comfortable and honored. Thanks.”
One choose even famous that they thought it was “tough to attract the Pikachu that everybody is aware of for this contest’s theme,” however was “impressed by the pure and unadorned depiction of Pikachu’s every day life as a dwelling creature.”
Talking of the Pokemon TCG, Alex not too long ago received to check out the upcoming cellular app Pokemon Buying and selling Card Sport Pocket saying that “even a really brief time period taking part in Pokemon Buying and selling Card Sport Basic tells me that that is scratching the correct itches in the correct means. It’s that uncommon cellular recreation I’ll be there for day one – and I might see myself changing into a aggressive collector and participant on this app not only for somewhat bit – however long term.”
