Yoshitaka Amano

If you know the famous video game the Final Fantasy, you should know this artist. That is Yoshitaka Amano. He works in many fields, illustration, character design, logo design and so on. His drawings are full of fantasy.


Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝)(born July 28, 1952) is a Japanese artist. He began his career as an animator and has become known for his illustrations for Vampire Hunter D and for his character designs, image illustrations and title logo designs for the Final Fantasy video game series developed by Square Enix (formerly Square).^[1] His influences include Western comic books, art nouveau, and Japanese woodblock prints. He has won awards for his work, including the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for his collaboration with Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Dream Hunters.^[2]

Here are some of his works:

Duane Michals

Have you thought of using photos to create a poem/story?Duane Michals tried this and did many great works. You can find his photos are very interesting. They really show the photographer's fantasy!:D

Duane Michals (born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Michals is largely self-taught; his work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.

Reiko Shimizu

Reiko Shimizu (清水玲子, Shimizu Reiko^?, born March 26, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese shōjo(teenage girl) manga writer and illustrator. She made her professional debut in 1983 with Sansaro Monogatari in LaLa, and has written primarily for the publisher Hakusensha. She is noted for her works of science fiction and her art style, and is also known for her illustrations of tarot cards called the Miracle Tarot deck.

Her paintings are really beautiful.See:

You can hardly distinguish who is female or male, that's her style~:D like it

Pierre et Gilles

I have introduced many photographers, they work as individual. And now I want to introduce a photographer pair.They are  Pierre et Gilles.

Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, are French artists and romantic partners. They produce highly stylized photographs, building their own sets and costumes as well as retouching the photographs. Their work often features images from popular culture, gay culture including porn (especially James Bidgood), and religion.

Let's see their works!

Actually, they do not just take photos , but also "draw" photos. What's that mean? Pierre is photographer while Gilles is painter. Pierre first take a black and white photo, and then Gilles add colour on it and add more elements on it, that is, draw on the photo. So the photos you see can actually be called paintings! Really love the idea~:D

Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter is another great photographer that I know from the photography lectures. He always captured photos of views and people of city. I like the romantic atmosphere created by his camera.:D

Saul Leiter (born 1923) is an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as The New York School

See more his works:

↑This is my favourite~:)

Tegami Bachi(LETTER BEE)

Afer introducing zetsubo sensei, I want to introduce another good comic. The author,Hiroyuki Asada's drawings is really beautiful, peaceful and very romantic. You can't imagine that Hiroyuki is a male!

Tegami Bachi (テガミバチ LETTER BEE) is a shōnen (teenage) manga series by Hiroyuki Asada. The series was first serialized in Monthly Shōnen Jump for ten chapters, and is currently serialized in the new monthly magazine Jump SQ.









Here are some of his works:

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei

Recently, I read a Japanese comic called"Zetsubou-Sensei", zetsubou means despair and sensei means tearcher. It is a comedy about a teacher who takes all aspects of life, word and culture in the most negative light possible. It satirizes politics, media, and Japanese society. In 2007, the manga received the thirty-first Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category,^[1] and was adapted into a twelve-episode anime series.

I love the setting and also the plot of this comic. Besides, the images inside are really my favorite. It's like "old Japan" style.Here are some of the works:

great~:)