Ken Sugimori

Ken Sugimori was born on 27 January 1966 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a game designer, illustrator, director and manga artist. He was well known as the character designer of Pokémon series. He design 151 Pokémon by himself. Even now, he had a team for designing new Pokémon, he still the one who made the final design. He made Pokémon character by observing animals, plants and other objects. Like for example a cat Pokémon Meowth, rose Pokémon Roserade, a gothic Lolita inspired Pokémon Gothielle

For me he was a great observer and very creative. Making 151 kinds of monster must not be easy moreover if he had to make the Pokémon speciality, the Pokémon ability, setting another colour for the rare Pokémon, etc.