I’m deeply obsessive about this sleepy, yawning Pikachu that gained the Pokemon TCG Illustration Contest this 12 months

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 12 months, The Pokemon Firm held a contest for followers of the sequence to submit some artwork that if it gained, 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 title of Kazuki Minami, who drew perhaps the perfect Pikachu card I’ve ever seen. You may see it on the finish of a video that reveals a bunch of the opposite submissions, or simply take a look at the highest of this web page, however for these of you that do not wish to do both of these issues, it is a lovingly rendered piece exhibiting Pikachu yawning and scratching its head with its foot, crammed with such an actual sense of life that may be so arduous to do.

“I am really honored to obtain this prize,” Minami mentioned in a press release. “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 method 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 completely satisfied and honored. Thanks.”

One decide 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 day by day life as a dwelling creature.”

Talking of the Pokemon TCG, Alex just lately obtained to check out the upcoming cell app Pokemon Buying and selling Card Sport Pocket saying that “even a really brief time frame enjoying Pokemon Buying and selling Card Sport Traditional tells me that that is scratching the best itches in the best method. It’s that uncommon cell recreation I’ll be there for day one – and I may see myself turning into a aggressive collector and participant on this app not only for a bit bit – however long run.”