Artist James Franzen entered the Pokémon Art Academy contest, and hey, he was one of three winners! Nice one, James. In addition to internet fame, though, he also got a super sweet prize: 100 copies of an actual official Pokémon card featuring his art.

The new game, Pokémon Art Academy, allows you to upload your Pokémon artwork to the Miiverse. As the game released in PAL territories last week (and Japan two weeks before that), there are already scores of artwork to browse though. Some of it is pretty amazing -- even just in the last 24 hours on the Japanese Miiverse.

So, you like Pokémon? Are you looking to learn how to draw or to improve your drawing? Well, Pokémon Art Academy can help you with that -- as long as you're drawing on the 3DS anyway.

When I first sat down with Pokémon Art Academy over a week ago, I decided to do a little experiment. I drew the first three drawings of the game freehand on a notepad as I came across them. Then today, I tried again -- and I'm truly surprised at the improvement.

Pokémon just wouldn't be Pokémon without a rival to constantly challenge you. Thus, even drawing game Pokémon Art Academy has a rival -- a girl named Lilly. But while I thought I was the worst artist in the world, Lilly proved me wrong. Her art is terrible -- so terrible, it loops all the way back around to wonderful.

I may be the single worst artist on the face of the planet. So let's see if Pokémon can teach me to draw in Pokémon Art Academy.

Nintendo 3DS game Pokémon Art Academy aims to teach players how to draw Pocket Monsters the right way. But what if you don't want to learn to draw the right way? What if you just want to screw around? You can do that too.

Dear Diary, after mum kicked me out of the house because of my radical views on the role of Pokémon in our society, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life.