Your art could end up on a future Pokémon card

If you’ve ever wanted to design your own Pokémon card, this is your chance.

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company International are launching a contest via the 3DS game Pokémon Art Academy. From Feb. 18 to March 29, you can enter drawings in two categories: Dress-Up Pikachu, which has you creating outfits for the franchise mascot; and Your Favorite Pokémon, which lets you draw a pocket monster of your choosing. The winning pictures will appear in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Entering the competition requires using Miiverse, the 3DS’s built-in social network. Nintendo outlined the process:

• Create and save an image in Pokémon Art Academy using Free Paint mode.
• Select the “Share” option from Pokémon Art Academy’s main menu and connect to Miiverse.
• Select the “Post to Competition” option and select “I Agree” if you are OK with the Official Rules.
• Highlight the category you’d like to enter (Dress-Up Pikachu or Your Favorite Pokémon) and then choose “Select Competition.” Only the first post you make will be recognized as your entry.
• Slide over the image and select it and then choose “Share Selected.”
• Enter a title to accompany your artwork in the comment field and then select “Post.” The image will be posted to Miiverse and entered into the competition.
• The only way to enter the competition directly is from the Pokémon Art Academy game, available exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

Best of luck, you Poképainters.