Naoyo Kimura
Naoyo Kimura (Japanese: 木村直代 Kimura Naoyo; born 1960[1]) is an illustrator for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Her first cards were Seel, Zapdos, and Graveler from the Japanese Expansion Sheet Series 2. Her first cards released in English were the Wizards Black Star Promos Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres released alongside The Power of One. She is notable for creating illustrations for the Neo Series and the Southern Islands promotional set.
Besides contributing artwork for the Pokémon TCG, Naoyo Kimura illustrated multiple books from Pokémon Tales picture book series including Come Out, Squirtle!, Seel to the Resuce!, Beroringa Licks Everything, Fly On, Butterfree, Dragonite's Christmas and Don't Laugh, Charizard. For the 2023 "Pokémon x Van Gogh" art collaboration, Kimura contributed illustrations of Pikachu and the evolutionary lines of Honchkrow and Corviknight, inspired by Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat and Wheatfield with Crows, respectively.
Artwork
Thus far, Naoyo Kimura has illustrated 276 cards. A full list of cards illustrated by him can be found here.
Naoyo Kimura has also illustrated 44 cards appearing in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket. For a full list of TCG Pocket cards he has illustrated, see here.
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Pikachu artwork for the "Pokémon x Van Gogh" art collaboration -
Corviknight artwork for the "Pokémon x Van Gogh" art collaboration
References
- ↑ Pokémon at the Van Gogh Museum - Van Gogh Museum official website
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