This Espeon is my illustrated take on the Espeon V Alternate Art (SWSH064/203) from Evolving Skies. The original card by Sanosuke Sakuma shows a giant, drowsy Espeon napping above a tiny pastel village, ribbons drifting in the breeze, half-closed eyes catching the soft afternoon light. It's one of the dreamiest scenes the Pokémon TCG has ever printed, and one of the most sought-after alt arts of the Sword & Shield era.

Like every print at Palette Town, this Espeon 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 rooftop in the village, every flowing ribbon, every wisp of cloud 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 pastel palette stays punchy whether you go matte or semi-gloss.

If Espeon is your favorite, this is the alt art that captures her best, calm, cosmic, watching over a quiet world from above. This print is for the people who want that scene on their wall every day, not sleeved away in a binder.