My favorite Artist: Terada Katsuya

posted on 22 March 2011 | posted in Arts and Entertainment


While I am a fan of many artists - from Banksy to Matisse, there's one I admire in particular.

Katsuya Terada is a Japanese illustrator, also famed as the illustrator for the hit anime series, "Blood: the last vampire." He also does illustrations for various American comic book franchises such as iron man, hellboy, and nintendo power. His artwork has a European look, and his female characters have a dangerous, elusive look in their eyes. He has an online clothing store called TEE PARTY, in which he showcases his work printed on T-shirts. The T-shirts go for around 3,675 yen, or 44.87 US dollars. He has an artbook named Rakuga King, which includes his artwork, including scribbles, drafts, and completely colored work that he has accumulated over the span of 20 years since he was 20 years old. His personal website is cacazan.com, which has links to his work, who he is, and making videos that you can download for his works, in which he films his own work in progress. He also sells two of his artbooks, FIGHT & DRAW and rakugaking 2.0 on http://bccks.jp, the homepage of bccks books.