This Charizard is my illustrated take on Charizard VMAX (SV107/SV122) from Shining Fates Shiny Vault, the chase rainbow rare of one of the most beloved modern Pokémon TCG sets. It's the shiny Gigantamax form, black instead of orange, covered in yellow diamond markings, wreathed in flames so big they read as rainbow at the edges. The TCG community usually just calls this one Dark Charizard, even though "dark" technically refers to a different vintage card. When you've seen this Charizard, "dark" is the only word that fits.

Like every print at Palette Town, this Charizard started as a TCG card I love and got rebuilt from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. There's no painting and no photography in here. Every flame, every diamond on his belly, every rainbow shimmer ray is a vector shape I drew by hand and stacked in layers. Even what looks like linework is shapes. It's slower than digital painting, but it means the file scales cleanly to any size. The print on your wall looks exactly as crisp at 24"x32" as it does at 8"x10", and the flames stay punchy whether you go matte or semi-gloss.

The original card pulls for $200+ on a good day. This print is for the people who want that scene on their wall every day, not sleeved in a binder.