Share two cards by the same artist of the same pokemon.
Did they get it better the second time around?
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Thought of these two instantly for whatever reason. I love both but the second time was 100% better!
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Considering they’ve been made around the same time[1], and with roughly the same cave in the background, I’d consider them equal. 
Greetz,
Quuador
Left one was in the Burning Shadows set (or Japanese Darkness that Consumes Light to go by first release), and the right one was a Burning Shadows Pre-release promo (this artwork hasn’t been released in Japanese) ↩︎
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Artist: Jiro Sasumo
Subject: Leafeon
First card was better IMO and my favorite special art of the entire SWSH era. Second Leafeon is also a pretty good card, my #3 favorite of the Terrastal Eeveeloution SARs (behind #1 Sylveon and #2 Umbreon)
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There’s a lot of great examples where they were done at the same time, eg. Fukada’s Gold Star Metagross and regular Metagross in Delta Species (which I think still hold as the best Metagross arts).
But I’ll choose one with a big time gap as I think that’s more interesting -
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There are a lot of illustrators who’ve made dozens of Pikachu cards, but I feel like Atsuko Nishida is one where the Pikachu and artwork are fairly different from one another, and spread out over loads of years/eras:
Screenshot source: pfm’s Pikachu V-Union article
My favorite of these is defintely the center one of Expedition Base Set.
Greetz,
Quuador
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Hajime Kusajima has done 3 Koffings. I like the Expedition one the most.
Also did Weezing too 
I also prefer the Expedition Weezing the most
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Yes, that’s more what I was thinking rather than cards released in the same set or deck
these are all about 20 years apart give or take
i know it’s different pokemon, but it’s the same sort of setting. there is an arita absol, but i think this is more interesting to compare
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I just browsed through some illustrators cards alphabetically and selected some that are fairly far apart in terms of release dates:
I definitely like the first one more.
I definitely like the first one more here as well.
Hmm, I honestly like both of them, even though they’re fairly different in both pose and background.
I like the first one more again here.
Both are great.
I like the first one slightly more.
I like the last one slightly more than the first.
And mostly added as joke: Ken Sugimori artworks where the Pokémon is the exact same, but the background differs. I know there are loads of cards where there are actually differently posed Pokémon, but I thought it would be funny to use the exact same Pokémon stock images side-by-side on purpose:
“Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture, - They’re the same picture.”
At least with some, they actually gave it some effort and made it into a fairly decent artwork.
- For Heracross I defintely like the first one the most, with the Pinsir pincers in the foreground.
- For Meowth I like the first one the most, executing its Pay Day attack.
- For Sabrina’s Abra I like the second one the most for obvious reasons (more natural). I mostly added this comparison to show they sometimes play around with the sizes as well.
- For Wingull I like the second one more. The first is basically a blurred irl photo, where the second is an actual cartoon (like Wingull itself), which is much more fitting for a TCG card artwork.
- For Farfetch’d I like the first one the most. I appreciate the gentle gesture of putting its feet under the surface of the water.
- For Bronzor, both artworks are pretty solid, but I like the second one more. Just like Farfetch’d, I appreciate the gentle effort of adding the reflection in the mirror.
- For Ariados I like the first one more. Having more than one of the same Pokémon makes it nicer imo, even if they do use the exact same stock (it’s also why I like Ken Sugimori’s Neo Genesis Noctowl, where the stock image is re-used smaller and with glowing eyes in the background)
I wonder who (and how many different) people make the artworks using Ken Sugimori’s stock Pokémon PNGs. 
Greetz,
Quuador
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Glad someone already mentioned Kouki Saitou’s Magikarp–Gyarados, which I also consider a connected artwork in my collection!
And for Mudkip, there are three artists:
Atsuko Nishida
Both are amazing artworks, but I like the second one better because of the yellow background.
Masakazu Fukuda
Again, both are nice artworks, but I prefer the first one.
Aya Kusube
Both are lovely artworks, but I like the second one better.
Cheers,
Adhi
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