Just wanted to see if people get similar answers. Personnally , I wish Kusajima was still in the game !
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Ryo ueda. I think he still may technically do some art for Pokemon but it seems like post XY it’s been all trainer and item cards. His early ex and hgss stuff is my favorite
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Masago would bring $tonk to the checklanes.
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I don’t keep too much track of which artists are and aren’t illustrating anymore, but Kimiya Masago was also the first to come to mind. Although the artworks aren’t in my all-time top favorites, at the same time he hasn’t made a single bad artwork. I like all of them, especially the Mewtwo.
Since there aren’t that many, here are all unique artworks he made (I picked the non-holos where possible to emphasize the artworks, but the holos are of course amazing as well):
One other that came to mind, although he only did a single artwork for Pokémon and mostly worked on MTG cards (and just like Keiji Kinebuchi, unfortunately passed away): Christopher Rush.
Seeing this single pretty amazing artwork, I wish we’d seen more for the Pokémon TCG:
Greetz,
Quuador
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Man I miss ex-XY era Ueda. His ex and full arts are some of my favorite cards
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Hajime Kusajima.
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Big Mama Tagawa
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Shin-Ichi Yoshida 
If anyone has any knowledge about him outside of his pokemon illustrating please share, I’d be very grateful! I would love to see literally anything else he’s done since leaving the tcg.
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4.Kimiya Masago - Pokemon drawn with a semi realistic style and rich details (various cards in previous posts)
3.Hataya - Lovely artist with sketchy work, in a similar vein to Kuroimori and some of Jiro Sasumo’s works
2.Tokiya - Badass cards in a very bold/dark style
1.Keiko Fukuyama - One if the few artists whose works I was enamored with as a kid and now, light fun cartoony style with bright colors
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Eo is the goat of trainer cards. I said it.
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If he was alive yes. And I’m sure he would have kept going and would have evolved in beautiful and pioneering ways in the ways of the greats. Remarkable man he was and I’d give anything to see some more cards from him.
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dppt → xy TOKIYA was a different beast man
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To be honest I didn’t even know she did all of those trainer cards until I looked her name up; I just remember thinking it was so weird to me seeing “Big Mama Tagawa” on the NYC promos. Those two cards alone are great, I wish we could see more stuff like that!
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Absolutely! Glad I’m not the only one who noticed the style shift and missed the OG style.
@CR4WD4UNT His Charizard is in my top 3, behind these 2
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I came here to say Keiko Fukuyama as well. Incredible artwork that captures a cartoony style that a lot of artists don’t.
I mean look at this… it’s so beautiful 
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It’s like the joy and soul of the creatures captured on paper.
Funny enough, at 11 I was secretive about my like of Fukuyama set cards as a kid since they were considered little kiddish and kinda girly by my cousins (all dudes at the time)
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Me too, its distribution is the only reason how I was able to get 3 copies and give one of those to my nephew.
Opened all 3 expecting nothing and got nothing lol. Did it all for the big Kaiju boy. Easily the most lethal it has ever looked on a card in my book
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