Illustrator Collectors: How Do You Organize?

  • Release Date
  • Alphabetical
  • Dex Entry
  • Order Obtained
  • Typing
  • Other (please post!)
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For the illustrator-specific collectors out there, I’m genuinely curious how you organize your collection/binders. Would love to hear your explanation as well!

Also curious if I’m the only one who organizes by dex entry (I know it’s a nightmare whenever a new card comes out and I have to shift them all, but it looks so nice to me!) :upside_down_face:

Release date is the best because it lets you see the evolution of the art over time

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I have a couple of “mini-binder” artist collections. The goal isn’t to collect every single card by every artist, rather to create a small showcase of art by different artists I like. Because it’s just to get a sense of the vibe, I’m not too particular about organizing by release date or anything.

I keep them in these mini photo albums from Amazon, each page is intended to hold 1 Polaroid but it works well with a single Pokemon card in a perfect fit sleeve. I wouldn’t store anything particularly valuable in here, but it works well for bulk :slight_smile:

I currently have mini-binders for:

  • Yuka Morii
  • Asako Ito
  • Kagemaru Himeno
  • Tomokazu Komiya
  • Midori Harada
  • Atsuko Nishida
  • Miki Tanaka
  • Sumiyoshi Kizuki

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I also organize by dex entry most of the time as well as painful as it is having to shuffle things around whenever a new batch of illustrations is released haha. It’s always worth it though to see the evolution lines in order especially when the illustrations tell a story like the Ralts, Kirlia, and Gardevoir cards

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Anything other than release date is psychotic.

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Chaos

OK, Seriously. By artist and then loosely by release. I put all my artists save arita in the same binders, so I try to keep sets together, but have to throw-in promos and one-offs to try to keep artists together.