Kent Kanetsuna

Pokémon card illustrator

Kent Kanetsuna (金綱賢人) is a Japanese Pokemon TCG illustrator active from the Diamond & Pearl era through the Black & White era, whose work is distinctive for being rendered entirely from 3D models rather than traditional painting. Their first card was Lucario from the Diamond & Pearl Trainer Kit, and they became closely associated with the metallic 'Pokemon Prime' cards and Special Energy cards of the HeartGold & SoulSilver Series. They illustrated roughly 71 original cards before their last new artwork appeared on the Energy Switch and Energy Retrieval item cards in Black & White.