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[[File:Tomokazu Komiya.jpg|200px|thumb|Tomokazu Komiya<ref name=PTCGIC>"[https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2022/en/column/article-6/ A Conversation with Two Pokémon TCG Official Illustrators Kouki Saitou and Tomokazu Komiya]." Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest 2022 Column</ref>]]
[[File:Tomokazu Komiya.jpg|200px|thumb|Tomokazu Komiya<ref name=PTCGIC>"[https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2022/en/column/article-6/ A Conversation with Two Pokémon TCG Official Illustrators Kouki Saitou and Tomokazu Komiya]." Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest 2022 Column</ref>]]
[[File:PsyduckSMPromo286.jpg|200px|thumb|Artwork by Tomokazu Komiya]]
'''Tomokazu Komiya''' (Japanese: '''こみやトモカズ''' ''Komiya Tomokazu''; born 1973) is an illustrator who has provided art for the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game]], as well as several [[Pokémon Tales]] books. His illustration style is well known within the Pokémon community particularly due to his deformed and loosely colored images. This is intentional, as Komiya is a practitioner of {{wp|Primitivism}}, an art movement that takes inspiration from themes or stylistic elements of prehistory, tribal cultures, or children's art.
'''Tomokazu Komiya''' (Japanese: '''こみやトモカズ''' ''Komiya Tomokazu''; born 1973) is an illustrator who has provided art for the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game]], as well as several [[Pokémon Tales]] books. His illustration style is well known within the Pokémon community particularly due to his deformed and loosely colored images. This is intentional, as Komiya is a practitioner of Primitivism, an art movement that takes inspiration from themes or stylistic elements of prehistory, tribal cultures, or children's art.


For the 2023 "[[Pokémon x Van Gogh]]" art collaboration, Komiya contributed illustrations of {{p|Sunflora}} and {{p|Smeargle}}, inspired by {{wp|Vincent van Gogh}}'s ''[https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0031V1962 Sunflowers]'' and ''[https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0022V1962 Self-Portrait as a Painter]'', respectively.
For the 2023 "[[Pokémon x Van Gogh]]" art collaboration, Komiya contributed illustrations of {{p|Sunflora}} and {{p|Smeargle}}, inspired by {{wp|Vincent van Gogh}}'s ''[https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0031V1962 Sunflowers]'' and ''[https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0022V1962 Self-Portrait as a Painter]'', respectively.


==Artwork==
==Artwork==
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File:Pokémon x Van Gogh Sunflora.jpg|{{p|Sunflora}} artwork for the "Pokémon x Van Gogh" art collaboration
===Core series games===
File:Pokémon x Van Gogh Smeargle.jpg|{{p|Smeargle}} artwork for the "Pokémon x Van Gogh" art collaboration
 
</gallery>
This is a collection of core series Pokémon games that Komiya has contributed artwork to.
 
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<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{Crown Tundra color dark}}; background:#{{Crown Tundra color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:2020 Legendary Pokemon Gen III.jpg|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{GameIcon|Sw}}{{GameIcon|Sh}}''' <br> {{color2|000|Crown Tundra}} wallpaper <br> (Hoenn)<ref name=CTWallpaper>[https://archive.is/l5UJf PokéTimes confirming Komiya drew the Crown Tundra wallpaper for Hoenn.]</ref></div>
</div>
 
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===Other games===
This is a collection of other Pokémon games that Komiya has contributed artwork to.
 
<div style="margin:center; font-size:125%; margin:auto; text-align:center; max-width: 1200px; {{roundy|5px}} border:2px solid #{{black color dark}}; background:#{{white color dark}}">
<div style="margin:auto; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: flex-start; font-size:80%; padding: 3px; {{roundy|5px}}; #{{white color dark}}; background: #{{white color}}; text-align:center; gap: 2px;">
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:HOME Sticker Bidoof, Bibarel and Staraptor.png|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon HOME|HOME}}''' <br> Sticker <br> ({{color2|000|Bidoof}}, {{color2|000|Bibarel}} and {{color2|000|Staraptor}}){{fact}}</div>
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===Merchandise===
This is a collection of official Pokémon merchandise that Komiya has contributed artwork to.
 
There are {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Illus. by Tomokazu Komiya}} cards illustrated by Komiya. For a list of cards he has illustrated, go [[:Category:Illus. by Tomokazu Komiya|here.]]
 
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<div style="margin:auto; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: flex-start; font-size:80%; padding: 3px; {{roundy|5px}}; #{{white color dark}}; background: #{{white color}}; text-align:center; gap: 2px;">
 
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:My151 Tomokazu Komiya.jpg|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon Center (store)|Pokémon Center}}''' <br> [[My151]] art{{fact}}</div>
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<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:Pokémon Center Osaka Postcard.jpg|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon Center (store)|Pokémon Center}}''' <br> Osaka postcard<ref name=PokémonCenterOsaka>[https://archive.is/qgdea Komiya confirming he drew the Pokémon Center Osaka postcard.]</ref></div>
</div>
 
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:Pokémon x Van Gogh Smeargle.jpg||x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon x Van Gogh}}''' <br> (Smeargle)<ref name=VanGogh>[https://archive.is/hy0FV Tomokazu Komiya confirming his work on the Pokémon x Van Gogh collab.]</ref></div>
</div>
 
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:Pokémon x Van Gogh Sunflora.jpg||x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon x Van Gogh}}''' <br> (Sunflora)<ref name=VanGogh></ref></div>
</div>
 
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:Bidoof Sleeves.jpg|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon Trading Card Game|TCG}}''' <br> {{color2|000|Bidoof}} sleeves<ref name=BidoofTCG>[https://archive.is/EtNr5 Komiya confirming he drew the Bidoof sleeves.]</ref></div>
</div>
 
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:Skwovet Greedent Sleeves.jpg|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon Trading Card Game|TCG}}''' <br> {{color2|000|Skwovet}} & {{color2|000|Greedent}} sleeves<ref name=SkwovetGreedentTCG>[https://archive.is/471o2 Komiya confirming he drew the Skwovet & Greedent sleeves.]</ref></div>
</div>
 
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:Pikachu Cramorant Sleeves.jpg|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon Trading Card Game|TCG}}''' <br> {{color2|000|Cramorant}} & {{color2|000|Pikachu}} sleeves<ref name=CramorantPikachuTCG>[https://archive.is/pQLPh Komiya confirming he drew the Cramorant & Pikachu sleeves.]</ref></div>
</div>
 
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:Chansey Wigglytuff Clefable Sleeves.jpg|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon Trading Card Game|TCG}}''' <br> {{color2|000|Chansey}}, {{color2|000|Wigglytuff}} and {{color2|000|Clefable}} sleeves<ref name=PinkTCG>[https://archive.is/Ejybm Komiya confirming he drew the Chansey, Wigglytuff and Clefable sleeves.]</ref></div>
</div>
 
<div style="flex: 1; font-size:80%">
<div style="{{roundy|20px}}; border:2px solid #{{white color dark}}; background:#{{white color light}}; flex-basis: 100px; min-width: 80px; height: 150px; overflow:hidden; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center">[[File:Paradox Pokémon Sleeves - Brute Bonnet and Sandy Shocks.png|x150px]]</div>
<div>'''{{color2|000|Pokémon Trading Card Game|TCG}}''' <br> {{color2|000|Paradox Pokémon}} <br> ({{color2|000|Brute Bonnet}} and {{color2|000|Sandy Shocks}})<ref name=ParadoxPokémonTCGSleeves>[https://archive.is/cVoh4 Komiya confirming he drew the Paradox Pokémon sleeves.]</ref></div>
</div>
 
 
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==Works==
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==References==
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://x.com/asiru3dozen Tomokazu Komiya's Twitter]


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Tomokazu Komiya[1]

Tomokazu Komiya (Japanese: こみやトモカズ Komiya Tomokazu; born 1973) is an illustrator who has provided art for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, as well as several Pokémon Tales books. His illustration style is well known within the Pokémon community particularly due to his deformed and loosely colored images. This is intentional, as Komiya is a practitioner of Primitivism, an art movement that takes inspiration from themes or stylistic elements of prehistory, tribal cultures, or children's art.

For the 2023 "Pokémon x Van Gogh" art collaboration, Komiya contributed illustrations of Sunflora and Smeargle, inspired by Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers and Self-Portrait as a Painter, respectively.

Artwork

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Core series games

This is a collection of core series Pokémon games that Komiya has contributed artwork to.

2020 Legendary Pokemon Gen III.jpg
 Sw  Sh 
Crown Tundra wallpaper
(Hoenn)[2]

Other games

This is a collection of other Pokémon games that Komiya has contributed artwork to.

HOME Sticker Bidoof, Bibarel and Staraptor.png
HOME
Sticker
(Bidoof, Bibarel and Staraptor)[citation needed]

Merchandise

This is a collection of official Pokémon merchandise that Komiya has contributed artwork to.

There are 262 cards illustrated by Komiya. For a list of cards he has illustrated, go here.

Works

Manga

Title Date Publisher
Ready, Set, Dodo! (Pokémon Tales #16) (no English release) 1997-11 Shogakukan
Nazonokusa's Hide and Seek (Pokémon Tales #29) (no English release) 1998-04 Shogakukan
Heart-pounding Sand (Pokémon Tales #39) (no English release) 1998-12 Shogakukan
The Important Feeling 2000-07 Futami
Corsola's Brave New World (Pokémon Gold & Silver Tales #9) 2002-08 Shogakukan
Contact with the Sea 2005-07 Shinpusha
The Mysterious Drum (Pokémon Daisuki Tales #8) 2007-07 Pokémon Daisuki Club


Work for the TCG

Tomokazu Komiya has been illustrating cards since the Expansion Sheet 1 expansion. Komiya exaggerates the features of Pokémon in his art, particularly facial and bodily proportions, focusing on the eyes or length of the face. He often uses vibrant colors or unusual tones to create a stark contrast between the Pokémon and the background environment. He also varies his style to convey different feelings in his art, using soft blotches of color to emulate placidity, or using very deep areas of color and rapid brushstrokes to give a dominant feeling. Thus far, Komiya has illustrated 262 cards. For a list of cards he has illustrated, go here.

References

  1. ↑ "A Conversation with Two Pokémon TCG Official Illustrators Kouki Saitou and Tomokazu Komiya." Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest 2022 Column
  2. ↑ PokéTimes confirming Komiya drew the Crown Tundra wallpaper for Hoenn.
  3. ↑ Komiya confirming he drew the Pokémon Center Osaka postcard.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tomokazu Komiya confirming his work on the Pokémon x Van Gogh collab.
  5. ↑ Komiya confirming he drew the Bidoof sleeves.
  6. ↑ Komiya confirming he drew the Skwovet & Greedent sleeves.
  7. ↑ Komiya confirming he drew the Cramorant & Pikachu sleeves.
  8. ↑ Komiya confirming he drew the Chansey, Wigglytuff and Clefable sleeves.
  9. ↑ Komiya confirming he drew the Paradox Pokémon sleeves.

External links


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