Miki Tanaka
Miki Tanaka (Japanese: 田中未樹 Tanaka Miki; born September 22) is an illustrator who has contributed artwork to the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Her first card was Slowpoke from the Fossil expansion. Her artwork is very recognizable due to her simplistic style, which involves little variation of shades, and there is hardly ever any line art around the subject.
Personal Life
Miki Tanaka was born in Tokyo. She initially majored in English at her university, but while she was working part-time at a traditional Japanese dance prop shop in Asakusa, she started painting custom designs on fans and bamboo hats which eventually led her to become an illustrator.[1] By the time she first started working on her first work with the Pokémon Trading Card game, she had already been illustrating for a variety of magazines, books, and advertisements.[1]
Artwork
When crafting her art, Tanaka does not use digital tools. Instead, she uses gouache—a type of opaque watercolor—on A4-sized watercolor paper.[1]
Thus far, Miki Tanaka has illustrated 208 cards. A full list of cards illustrated by her can be found here.
Miki Tanaka has also illustrated 37 cards appearing in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket. For a full list of TCG Pocket cards she has illustrated, see here.
Trivia
- Tanaka has two children, as mentioned in her Twitter bio.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (August 4, 2025) Passion in a Single Pokémon Card | Uniqlo Magazine Retrieved on January 16, 2026.
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