February 2012
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January 2012
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Inspiration: The Erotic Works of Yuji Moriguchi
Nothing like some good old fashioned Japanese kink, amirite?
The Japanese panache for erotica dates back to when Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, dipped her sword into the sea creating the islands of Japan, and the nascent Nippon-jin began production of the first hentai. The heritage far predates “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife,” (NSFW) painted in 1820 by Hokusai.
I’d like to...
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Inspiration: Teicoku Syounen
The work of 帝国少年, Teicoku Syounen, or ‘Empire Boy,’ requires a superlative sort of descriptor; phantasmagoric, hyperbolic, colossal, sweeping, magnificent, …slightly terrifying.
It always struck me as curious that this work depicting epic, open spaces, could only be created by someone who obviously spends most of their time indoors, in a basement, given they never fucking...
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Art from ILLUST201
Last year I took a phenomenal illustration course, taught by a man who could only be described as a cuddly version of Voldemort, Justin Novak, a New York born Vancouver artist and one of my inspirations. The course kept its own blog to which I posted a lot of development art and finished work, and was thinking it might be interesting for my beloved friends, fans and stalkers to check it...
Inspiration: Cellar-FCP
Whenever I make digital paintings, I want them to look like Cellar-FCP’s.
Cellar-FCP is an artist from Hong Kong. Much of his work portrays prostitutes in different countries around the world, and many of those works appeared recently in the book ‘鶯~Erotica’. The information he gives about himself is very minimal, he publishes under his pseudonym, and he doesn’t even have...
Inspiration: East Monkey →
One of my absolute favorite artists is Liu Dongzi, a Beijing artist known as East Monkey online. I still have yet to achieve the harmony between scanned line art and digital paint that gives his work such luster. I find some of his work seems to glow.
Below are three of my favorite of his works, depicting ‘Pig and his Girl.’
I would seriously recommend checking out his blog because...
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Alright, fine.
Alright, fine. I got a got dang tumblr.
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