アートスタイル+Lime Green Lips

This morning at about 4:30AM I suddenly had creative juices flowing through my brain, and I made a couple of new illustrations. They are both kind of inspired by the idea of "Aato-kei", or "Artistic style" as I've mentioned a bit before. Its kind of a concept that I think could do well in Tokyo. I've seen some people with similar style in TUNE magazine, but its very rare. Elements of paint splatters, overalls, late 80's, early 90's, and geometric shapes. Lots of oversized proportions and big glasses, miss-matched, and colorful. Think previous art movements like the early Bauhaus movement and those unique styles you see kids wear that go to art school. These two illustrations do not necessarily match that concept, but they still contain elements of "Artistic Style." Who knows, maybe it will be the next Japanese fashion subculture tribe.

New RIDSNAP Illustration

One of my FAVORITE Street Snap web sites as many of you know is http://www.ridsnap.com . Their scouts always find the people and trends that are on the most cutting edge end of Tokyo style. Tonight when I was checking their site, I noticed my friend was on the site! I was really excited to see her. We became friends through Tavuchi, as she was one of her regular customers. I decided to do a new illustration of her here!

Be SURE and check out RIDSNAP at http://www.ridsnap.com if you haven't been yet.
リッドストリートスナップ) 新しいイラスト


**Photo credit RIDSNAP

Happy Valentine's Day!

New Art first featured on www.madewithjapan.com. Be sure and check them out! It's been awhile before I've had a post with new illustrations. After Tavuchi left, I've been busy trying to keep up with the online store, as well as making new stuff to sell locally. Let me know what you guys think about these specific illustrations. What do you guys wanna see more of?

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Photo Illustrations

Salamander Girl

What does she make you think?

Quilt! 80's Futuristic+Purple Hair!

I think was my trip to Tokyo+constant checkings on street fashion web sites like droptokyo, RIDSNAP, Japanesestreets, and others+a video on Tavuchi-san's blog that stirred up the inspiration for this character.



On Tavuchi's blog...There was a video that reminded me a lot of the old late 80's/early 90's cartoons that are now outdated, but many times had a "futuristic" theme. I think its really interesting to see era's from the past ideas of the future. Especially from that era. Maybe this is what originally gave me the idea that Tokyo was this futuristic-like city. Songs like "Mr. Roboto" from the Styx. Even games like Ducktales for the NES...Like this futuristc/outer-space level are inspriational!
One of my favorite things to draw on this image was the quilt skirt. I've seen a lot of that lately. I noticed in Tokyo that some of my favorite shops and shop owners were making things like raggedy old quilts that nobody wants in the states into something artistic, and creative.

Tavuchi's blog is here, with the exact inspiring post: http://yaplog.jp/spank-tab/archive/1237

Tokyo

Well, I have been in Tokyo since July 8th. It has been an AMAZING experience as usual.

This post doesnt really contain any new artwork, but some exciting news.

Some of you that are familiar with Japanese street fashion may know of the famous Tavuchi-san. She is the owner of select used clothing shops, and has been featured on basically every well-known street fashion publication and web site. She is famous for introducing American late 80s early 90s style vintage into street fashion culture in a way that is relevant to Tokyo fashion subcultures today.

As some of you know, I did an illustration of her before I went to Japan. I ended up emailing it to her, and she loved it. So, I had a custom tote bag design ordered for her to give as a gift to Japan, because we would meet.

Im glad I did. She ended up showing lots of cool street fashion kids the bag, I was so happy. The coolest thing that happened though was this....

Some of you may know fo the magazines STREET, FRUiTS, and TUNE. They are probably the most famous street fashion magazines in Japan, if not the world. FRUiTS has been a revolutionary part of changing fashion culture in Japan. FRUiTS features pictures of just women on the street, TUNE with men on the street, and STREET featuring international street fashion.

I ended up meeting the owner of all 3 of these magazines, Mami-san. She was incredibly kind and supportive. The coolest thing that happened was she ended up taking a picture of Tavuchi-san holding my bag with my illustrations on it, to hopefully be in FRUiTS! I will keep you guys posted on that status for sure.

I am looking for more and more ways to get my art out to the world. My dream is to sell my designs on products in very select shops in Tokyo, and maybe even around the world. What are you guys thoughts? What is something you would like to see with my artwork on it? Products? Any collaborations? I currently have some stuff in the works. Would like to get your opinions. Here are some pictures from the day I met Tavuchi!