Japanese Street Style, unplanned drawings
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Two things at the moment:
- My face is puffed up like Marlon Brando. I had a wisdom tooth removed. I have some time off work!
- I’m scouring the web for links to my blog and to socialise. This is a source of inspiration.
I came across a blog by Droog79 (reference below), it inspired me create a piece of Japanese Surf Art in the unplanned street style:
Three Zoomorphic Curls Sketch 1.Â
I used Pro markers and aimed for bold lines, high contrast and lots of detail. The surfers are like Jelly Babies, like a pop cult reference. The soap suds are a reference to Graffiti writing.
What prompted me to create this…
Droogs art: awesome! For the UK it reminded me of
- ‘Supermundane’ an artist/illustrator I’d seen under that name (anything but run-of-the-mill)
- as well as album art of Mr Scruff.
- Generally it reminded me of unplanned drawings of the Japanese Street Style:Â A great example of being Nobumasa Takahashi:
Check this out, an entire wall painted by Takahashi San from ideas given to him as he worked (spot the surfer heading towards the mouth of a giant head)
http://www.pingmag.jp/images/title/nobumasa_drawing.jpg”>Source: Nobumasa Takahashi pingmag.jp
http://pingmag.jp/2006/02/08/nobumasa-takahashi-draws/
There’s some great art out there, surfing the web is a great way to find grassroots artists and big names which can open up new ideas to you. Cheers for the blog Droog79 (check it out at http://www.droog79.blogspot.com/)
Also see:
- Supermundane: http://www.supermundane.com/
- Mr Scruff: http://www.mrscruff.com/
- Florence Manlik:Â http://manlik.blogspot.com/
- Akira Yamaguchi: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/features/arts2005/fa20050105a1.htm (if anyone knows an official website please let me know!!)
You can also see a timelapse movie of my sketch:
Now I’m off to eat some more chicken soup :-/