E4 Ranking of the 2022 Pokemon Illustration Contest

[Dyl]

Choose your Top 3 Favorite Arts from the 2022 Pokemon Illustration Contest!

ROUND ONE: TOP 300 - Result - Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest...

My Top 3:

1. Arcanine - RossDraws

2. Galarian Rapidash - Tokage Kato

3. Greninja - Burdrehnar

[pfm]

This one is so good it's not even fair to include it in my rankings

[alyo]

So much good artwork from these illustrators, my favorites:

(By Julie Hang)

(By Jeffrey Evan)

( By Chris Weiford)

[gengarbrigade]

If these were cards, I’d buy a plethora of them. Very psychedelic in their own way.

[caughtatpoint]

It’s always a treat going through these. I’m almost certain these three aren’t my favourite but it’s the best I could manage after eliminating the others in a series of head-to-heads in my, uh, head.

Takashi Shiraishi

Sage Sui

Miranda Jacoby

[ayoveer]

TOP 3 from all those amazing art pieces, I don’t envy the official judges.

My TOP 3 and all of them are in No. 1 place, I can’t pick winner over any of them.

[JoshsOddCollection]

Oddish x 3 :))))))

[xzini]

Ugh this was so difficult (these are in no order but I guess the Galarian Rapidash would be my number 1).

[quuador]

To quote myself from an earlier thread:

@quuador

Holy shit… The jury will have a very tough time choosing this year. I hope there is more than one winner this time, especially after seeing all those mind-blowing artworks.

As for my favorites for each Pokémon:

Oh, and the pose and head of this one made me giggle.

My top three from these would be:

Greetz,
Quuador

[c0ll3ct0r]

[c0ll3ct0r]

Honorable mention to Buboplague’s preening Cramorant:

[candle]

interesting how the actual winning art never makes it into anyone’s top 3. I am personally baffled by the grand prize and award-winning selections in these contests. Really nice art of course, but just never what I would have guessed would win.

[candle]

anyway here are my top 3

and there ar least 30 in the top 100 that I feel would be true all-timers if printed onto cards

[cyberurchin]

In no order but I just love these. I’m a sucker for stuff that looks hand drawn/watercolor/colored pencil aesthetic, so one of these would have won if I were a judge haha

[mika]

My top 3 :

Marina Chikazawa

yellow

Mari Inoue

[jaxlax21]

My top 3

[bash2112]

Very tough choice. All of these would be such AMAZING cards. Kinda sad scrolling through the arts knowing I won’t be able to collect them.

[chrisfcards]

[Dillon2386]

[tcgmaine]

I was able to narrow it down to like 15 semi-easily and then just stared at my screen for 10 minutes trying to decide. This is what I came up with.