Okay, thought I would talk a bit about my favorite artist. As you may know, Ken Sugimori, Kejii Kinebuchi, and Mitsuhiro Arita were (almost) the only 3 artists in the original set. Arita illustrated influential cards such as Charizard, Venusaur, and Gyarados. Kinebuchi disappeared after Fossil, but popped up again later in Aquapolis, then disappeared completely in favor of new CG artists such as Ryo Ueda and Hikaru Koike. Ken Sugimori mainly disappeared after EX Deoxys, but recently drew a few cards that appeared in the newest set, Holon Phantoms (but these were just promos in Japan). He's more of an on-and-off thing, as ne didn't appear in the 3 main E-reader game sets, but did appear in Ruby and Sapphire again. He'll be back for some more work later.... (probably too busy working on the new video games...) But Mitsuhiro Arita has lasted through and through. Only vanishing during the Gym sets (where the new artist, Atsuko Nishida, and Ken Sugimori practically did the whole sets), Arita has done amazing work from Gengar EX of Fire Red/Leaf Green to Dark Weezing of Team Rocket Returns. But now, for the best and worst....
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SHROOMISH OF EX EMERALD!!!!!
Wow, just look at that form!!! True, Shroomish is never a sight you like to see, but this is just amazing!! Looks almost like a photo.... Almost....
Well, after best, there has to be....
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CLEFAIRY OF EX FIRE RED AND LEAF GREEN!!!!!!
Got the idea from bass_forte. Wow. A fat little squat Clefairy waggling it's finger. Not the worst illustration ever (to see that one look at my avatar), but preeetty bad. Good thing it evolves into the well illustrated Clefable EX.
So.... that's Mitsuhiro Arita for ya!! In my opinion, the best artist EVER, but hey, that's just me. Tell me, what do YOU people think? Hmm? And please, only post here if you have something beneficial to add to this "artist's chat".
Oh, by the by, when are they going to add an art discussion branch to these forums? Ha ha...
BEST
Drum roll, please......
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SHROOMISH OF EX EMERALD!!!!!
Wow, just look at that form!!! True, Shroomish is never a sight you like to see, but this is just amazing!! Looks almost like a photo.... Almost....
Well, after best, there has to be....
WORST
It's kinda hard to find a bad Arita illustration, but.... (chuckle)....
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CLEFAIRY OF EX FIRE RED AND LEAF GREEN!!!!!!
Got the idea from bass_forte. Wow. A fat little squat Clefairy waggling it's finger. Not the worst illustration ever (to see that one look at my avatar), but preeetty bad. Good thing it evolves into the well illustrated Clefable EX.
So.... that's Mitsuhiro Arita for ya!! In my opinion, the best artist EVER, but hey, that's just me. Tell me, what do YOU people think? Hmm? And please, only post here if you have something beneficial to add to this "artist's chat".
Oh, by the by, when are they going to add an art discussion branch to these forums? Ha ha...
awsome!! )
