The Giant Art Thread

[A.P.Speeze]

Really love that Kyogre piece. Looked up the artist and he has got some great pieces featuring legendary pokemon. He really exaggerates their size which gives them a stronger legendary feel to me. For example, Regirock is only 5ft 7in.

[pokemick]

@wotcfetish, @eyesofmadara, These are great, especially the Kyogre. Who’s the Artist?

[A.P.Speeze]

@pokemick

@wotcfetish , @eyesofmadara , These are great, especially the Kyogre. Who’s the Artist?

www.devinellekurtz.com/

[c0ll3ct0r]

Anyone else could use one of these right now?

[xileets]

@aritafan

@martin

Thanks for the info, Brendan! Super helpful. I did not realize that the canvas itself makes such a huge difference in the texture but now when I think about it, it makes complete sense

It is worth noting that these effects can largely be replicated with digital painting effects. Digital was less popular as a medium in the 90’s and early 2000s but I know that Arita was already using it back then (I asked him about this on a livestream once, he says all of his TCG illustrations have been digital - he draws with pencil first then colors/finishes digitally) and some of Arita’s grainier textures that appear to be done on rough paper are actually digital. I had always assumed they were colored pencil or pastel.

I honestly would not be surprised if Himeno did those cards you mentioned digitally. Too my eyes it looks like it was digital to imitate pencil or pastel on rough-grained paper, which explains why there are more white “dots”/gaps in the paper. I feel like a true watercolor would also have more splotchiness and water “bleeding”. Or it was non-digital pencil/pastel, but I don’t think it’s watercolor.

Below is the Arita Cubone, which was done digitally. You can see the graininess throughout that appear to be done on physical media, but was actually digital.

One thing that makes Arita’s work so consistent is his digital cleanup of the lines and shading in the artwork.

[koala]

Midori Harada is back, not having drawn since 004/070 Scatterbug in S5I Single Strike Master (Jan 2021)

[dwah86]

Best VMAX artwork in a long while for me

[knotchi]

non-3D VMAXes are actually kinda sick

[thsigma]

[c0ll3ct0r]

Mad hatter and E-reader extraordinaire Umemoto.

[wotcfetish]

[wotcfetish]

[c0ll3ct0r]

[pulpyfan]

Amazing Kecleon art. Love Oshiyama’s use of color here. This artist has created some exceptional pieces. Great eye, thanks for sharing @c0ll3ct0r

[mthursty]

One of my favorite cards in the last few years. I even made a mediocre deck out of it

[c0ll3ct0r]

Modern Kusajima masterpieces, they are rarer but they exist.

[shinru]

I’ve always loved that Cloyster art. Beautiful background and the nice solid linework really help him to pop.

[xileets]

Just started working on my kusajima binder. SO nice and a decent variety too!

[c0ll3ct0r]

Totally agree, it’s beautiful and it stands out. The background looks like an abstraction of Ice Beam or Icy Wind, such a good idea to do it like that, more common to see artists do similar things with Fire or Electric types but rarely Ice types.

[wisewailmer]

What are people’s thoughts on the HGSS era holo rare arts? Not the ultra rares and stuff but I personally have been exploring this era for fun recently and really like the holo rares a lot. I like the arts a lot more than the DP/P era cards too. Generally the print quality feels very good and I have found many raws that are not in bad shape at all. Even reverses seem to be easy grades. Obviously people like COL but not looking at secrets I found that most holos are not expensive. Was there a massive supply boom in this era that I am not aware of that is causing these cheap prices? Or is it really just not in demand?