The E4 Art Contest is an annual event hosted by Elite Fourum, a community focused on Pokémon card collecting. Officially known as the E4 Art & Illustration Contest, it invites participants of all skill levels to submit artwork in four diverse categories. The contest is free to enter, encourages participation from both novice and experienced artists, and emphasizes inclusivity, welcoming original creations, childlike drawings, and digital art.

This is the first time i will be entering. but not for myself, for my 8 year old daughter Leila (Lee-la) She is a fantastic little artist with her own style and enjoys spending time drawing on paper as well as digitally on her tablet. Regardless of the results on the forum i am planning on creating her a card featuring her art for her as well as a prize for her effort.

I entered her into 2 category’s i thought she would excel at

Child Drawing
Recreation

Recreation
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She first set out at Recreation, i asked her what her favorite Pokemon was and she said Eevee & Pikachu. i visited pkmncards.com on my Laptop and showed her Eevee cards and Pikachu cards until she chose one to draw, She chose the common Generations Pikachu illustrated by Atsuko Nishida. Atsuko Nishida is one of my favorite artist’s, maybe my #1.. though it’s hard to choose.

Throughout my TCG collecting there has been many times i’ve come across a card art that really grabs my attention and it turns out to be Atsuko Nishida. So i was especially suriprised when she chose this card and again i look down and see it’s Nishida. She said she likes the style and that it’s similar to hers. I downloaded the image, cropped it and sent it to her tablet for her to recreate.

I left her to it for a while but checked on her from time to time to see how she was doing, i could see she was excited and knew exactly what she was going to do for this art piece. She loves drawing her own things with her own style, this is the first time she has ever drawn Pokemon.

She showed me the finished piece, and we are both very happy with it. She was literally bouncing up and down with excitement and pride with what she had done. I am also very proud of her, especially since this has all been self taught. In my opinion she is extremely talented and has a great imagination.