# Fake Ken Sugimori's drawings

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**Created:** [October 30, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/fake-ken-sugimoris-drawings/22004 "2018-10-30T09:02:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/fake-ken-sugimoris-drawings/22004/1 "2018-10-30T09:02:35Z")

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Beware, now you can find fake signed Ken Sugimori’s drawings (at my knowledge only from this seller [uonar70095](https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/uonar70095) for the moment)!  
[![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1960/31757007568_924d2abe7d_n.jpg)](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1960/31757007568_8e7b686bdd_o.jpg) [![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1967/31757009468_8ce77b624b_n.jpg)](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1967/31757009468_2b696fc81f_o.jpg)(click to enlarge pictures)

On the left there is (a priori) a legit Ken Sugimori’s drawing which was sold on 18/09/16 (on YJA), on the right there is a fake Ken Sugimori’s drawing which was sold on 18/10/02 by uonar70095 (on YJA).  
The right drawing is fake mainly because the signature was duplicated from the one on the left drawing.Indeed by superimposing the two signatures, you can see that they almost match perfectly (black = Meowth’s signature, red = Mewtwo’s signature):  
 ![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1917/45629436511_31291f8f9a_o.png)

I believe there are some very slight differences because the signature was duplicated using a low quality picture.  
Moreover you can also notice on the Mewtwo that the drawing is “too clean” (there is no small mistake), the pen used for the signature is different from the one used for the drawing, it is not an unseen artwork, the drawing surfaced few weeks after the Meowth, among others.  
This is just a personnal assumption based on observed facts, but they tend to show that the Mewtwo drawing is fake.

Today, there is a new evidence showing that the seller uonar70095 definitively sells fake Ken Sugimori’s drawing:

[![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1913/44715663395_529cb2b924_n.jpg)](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1913/44715663395_e3506daa1f_o.png) [![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1953/44715663625_1ba8a9bfa0_n.jpg)](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1953/44715663625_f49c84ba0d_o.jpg)  
(click to enlarge pictures)  
On the left there is a legit Ken Sugimori’s drawing (which was exposed in a Pokémon Center I believe), on the right there is a fake Ken Sugimori’s drawing which is currently sold by uonar70095.  
The drawing on the right was obviously duplicated from the original one on the left (you can easily spot some slight differences).

So be extremely carefull when you purchase signed drawings or cards (this is not new but it is good to remind)!

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