Top Three Winners Crowned for 2024’s Pokemon TCG Illustration Contest, Runner-Ups Announced!

[Water Pokémon Master]

The top three winners of the 2024 Pokemon TCG Illustration Contest have been announced at Japan’s Champions League! Each of them was crowned on stage.
The $5,000 “Grand Prize Winner” is Kazumi Minami from Japan. The $3,000 “Best Standard Card Illustration” winner is “Acorviart” from the United States. And the $3,000 “Best ex Card Illustration” winner is “Anderson” from Japan.

Their artwork will be turned into real promo cards. In the coming months they should be...

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[Ulio99]

pretty good stuff all around, my favourite has gotta be Shiho So's pikachu and yoshiyama's koraidon

 

[ViridiVioletear]

Royce Li's Flygon hits different, what an amazing frame.
Yoshiyama's Koraidon is just a perfect summary of this legendary duo. It's so perfect.
Teluna's Absol still wins it all, just because of Absol.

 

[pokemonfamclub]

Emma Bieber's Flygon and MANAKA's Feraligatr really stand out to me, beautiful!

 

[MarlinRimes]

That toxtricity looks like Freaktricity

 

[TheLegend]

Picture number 18 of the Feraligatr is my favourite but, all of the feraligatr art looks amazing.
Pikachu picture number 1 is the cuttest one.

 

[Dabfamlet]

Yawn pikachu is lame imo, but the feraligatr is cool

 

[Xous]

Congratulations to this year's winners! Like every year, there were so many amazing entries. It's cool to see that the top 3 got trophies and were announced publicly at an in-person event! What a nice way to make such a special occasion even more so.

I'm grateful and honored to have made the top 100 among so many amazing artists. Thank you to everyone here who shared their support throughout the earlier stages - it means the world to me! I'll keep trying to achieve my dream of illustrating for the TCG someday.

 

[Grim Thoughts]

Awesome contest! My favorite entry was Spareribs Koraidon, so I’m happy it at least got a Judge Award despite it not winning

 

[Nintenfreak]

Seriously fudge Pikachu. Stop allowing it in art contests for adults. I don't want Pikachu cards I want good looking cards.

Anyway at least Acorvart won, but they need to expand this and have a children's division. Love that old Poliwrath

 

[MarlinRimes]

Seriously fudge Pikachu. Stop allowing it in art contests for adults. I don't want Pikachu cards I want good looking cards.

Anyway at least Acorvart won, but they need to expand this and have a children's division. Love that old Poliwrath

Don’t be mad at the artists, be mad at the contest. Also, Pikachu is the figure head of Pokemon lmao

 

[CytochromeT]

Really disappointed in the top 3 choices...so many better and more interesting artworks in the runner-ups.

 

[Tvoretz]

And this is why I don't enter art contest. No traditional artist at all. Just digital slop.

Look, I'd love to see more variety in medium, too, but these artists put huge amounts of time and talent into their entries. Using a stylus instead of a brush or pen doesn't make it slop.

 

[LilyLopears]

And this is why I don't enter art contest. No traditional artist at all. Just digital slop.

Ok boomer.

 

[LilyLopears]

OMG what the fudge is that Evee by Devin Elle Kurtz doing there? That’s obviously AI art wtf, how did that shit win??

Do you have any evidence? It doesn't have any of the usual tells of AI images, as far as I can see?

 

[Tvoretz]

OMG what the fudge is that Evee by Devin Elle Kurtz doing there? That’s obviously AI art wtf, how did that shit win??

I doubt it. Devin Elle Kurtz hasn't posted video of the making of the Eevee piece specifically but has for others, and she's complaining about the deluge of AI generated content, too.

 

[crystal_pidgeot]

Look, I'd love to see more variety in medium, too, but these artists put huge amounts of time and talent into their entries. Using a stylus instead of a brush or pen doesn't make it slop.

That does matter! I want to see ANY traditional art. You all know Im a digital artist. Why not have winners for like five or so categories? Have one for traditional, digital, digital-ai? I say slop not as an insult to the artist because there was just as many good digital pieces that didnt get pick so why not have more mediums represented? If you can do stone work or glass work, why not have that be on a card? Do you have any idea how hard it is to compete against digital art? Only allowing digital art makes it so elitist for no reason.

 

[heatherjay]

That toxtricity is awesome

 

[Snowy Lilacs]

That does matter! I want to see ANY traditional art. You all know Im a digital artist. Why not have winners for like five or so categories? Have one for traditional, digital, digital-ai? I say slop not as an insult to the artist because there was just as many good digital pieces that didnt get pick so why not have more mediums represented? If you can do stone work or glass work, why not have that be on a card? Do you have any idea how hard it is to compete against digital art? Only allowing digital art makes it so elitist for no reason.

I agree it would be nice to see more art styles like glass work or stone work or old school drawings. We have the yarn and the clay Pokemon art cards, lets bring in more styles!

 

[itmealice]

yayyyy some of my favorites made it!