# Artist

> An illustrator, with a maintained count of the cards they drew.

Source: https://pokemontcgapi.com/docs/objects/artist

Deliberately small. `card_count` is denormalised and maintained by the importers, because recomputing it on read is a `GROUP BY` across the whole catalogue for a number that changes once a day.

399 artists are credited across the catalogue today.

## Fields

| Field | Type | Null | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `slug` | string | no | Stable identifier used by `/v1/artists/{slug}`. Not free text — "Mitsuhiro Arita" is not a slug. |
| `name` | string | no | Name as credited on the card. |
| `card_count` | integer | no | Cards currently attributed to this artist. |

## Example

`artist.json`

```json
{ "slug": "mitsuhiro-arita", "name": "Mitsuhiro Arita", "card_count": 760 }
```

## Getting the cards

There is no `/v1/artists/{slug}/cards`. Search instead, so you get the same filtering, sorting and paging as everywhere else:

```bash
GET /v1/cards?q=artist:"Mitsuhiro Arita"&orderBy=-index_eur
```