Archive for the ‘Illustration’ Category[Illustration] Gallery of the PRC artist: Eno.Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Eno. (who is also known as 何何舞) is my favorite illustrator of all time. She published her first artbook in 2007 under the title "Marquee Moon" (华盖之月). Above is an image from a series of drawings called "night of sublimation" dated from 2004 - 2006 and collected in that artbook. [Illustration] Gallery of the PRC artist: iiiisSunday, November 8th, 2009 iiiis is a talented male artist in the PRC who is involved in music production as well as art illustrations. He is known for his soft, ethereal and graceful artstyle and has won many awards. Like another contemporary artist Eno, he follows the technical concept of 計白當黑 (ji bai dang hei) in traditional Chinese paintings. The idea is to leave blanks in a painting, and yet the blanks do not mean that the painting is incomplete. On the contrary, the blanks are part of the completed painting. In this way, not only the material world of touchable things is depicted, but also the immaterial world of void. [Illustration] PRC Artists: Xia Da, Wang Huan, Shao Hua, Sheep and Zhao JiaSunday, October 4th, 2009I always say that there are more talented Chinese illustrators / manhua artists these days than I have time to keep up with them. There is always a new name coming across my way every month and even then I feel that what I know is only a tip of the iceberg. Below are some of the new names I came across recently:  Above is an illustration by Xia Da (夏达). News reached me that her supernatural manhua series "Zi Bu Yu (子不语)" is to appear in Japanese translation as "誰も知らない 〜子不語〜” this month. [Illustration] Fujiwara KaoruSaturday, September 26th, 2009 A rare cover image of the magazine "Manga Erotics F" dated 2004 by Fujiwara Kaoru (藤原薫), a very talented josei manga artist who unfortunately seems to have stopped production of new works these days. Her fine sense of aesthetics, stylish drawings and thought-provoking stories will be missed. |
