Pokémon Art Academy is a 2014 educational drawing game developed by Headstrong Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It is a spin-off of the Art Academy series featuring characters from the Pokémon media franchise. The game was made available as both a retail and downloadable release from the Nintendo eShop and is the first 3DS title with built-in Miiverse support for sharing artwork. Pokémon Art Academy is an educational art game designed to teach players how to draw various Pokémon characters through 40 advancing lessons. Players progress through three skill levels – Novice Apprentice and Graduate – while learning new techniques and art concepts with additional tools such as pastel and paintbrush being unlocked along the way. The Novice course begins with skills such as drawing head-on portraits angles and construction shapes while later stages introduce shading hatching opacity and freehand sketches. Each drawing can be transferred to a Pokémon Trading Card Game card border upon completion with the option to add a background image.