Katsuya Terada is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist that I have admired for many years. I love his Saiyukiden Daienou (Monkey King) , Devil Man and Boold: The Last Vampire. I am impressed by his line quality . He has also done work related to American comics, such as Iron Man and Hellboy (one of his illustrations was used for an official statuette of Hellboy). He also made additional contributions to early issues of Nintendo Power, including a special edition Strategy Guide for Dragon Warrior and artwork for The Legend of Zelda.
My favorite is his Monkey King, Terada created and started this dark version of ' journey to the west', not only the drawing style but also the character and content itself. Even now we are still affected by it in China. I think his monkey king is more suitable for the original story background, he should be fury and rebel.
'Everyone grew up with the tale of journey to the west ; even Osamu Tezuka did his version. When Son Goku is put in a cave…someone who’s been crammed up for years in a mountain is naturally going to tend you towards violence—a natural reaction to that situation. I don’t think that’s really been depicted before.'
Terada has defined himself as a 'rakugaki' artist, more of a philosophy than a style of drawing, in which one draws a little everywhere, all the time, without thinking too much, on notebooks etc. He is a very prolific artist.
I’ll take a pencil and think, ‘that’s a cool thing,’ and especially being able to depict things to exist or don’t exist that are or would be three dimensions in a two dimensional way. That excites me, being able to go around and say ‘I can depict that, I can depict that.’
His use of CG tools is integrated very well in his illustrations, giving his work a vivid and rich appearance. I think he influence me to capture that sense of three dimensionality in my work.
"Realism doesn't mean making it look exactly like a picture would, but conveying the air, the feeling, the scene, the taste of the image, and conveying the feeling of the existence of whatever you're drawing."
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