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5.0
"Most of the drawings take inspiration from day to day life. If every day was boring, I wouldn't draw anything even if I had the time."
"If just a single drawing makes someone happy, it may mean that whatever I was experiencing or thinking about at the time is the same as what you were thinking about today."
Posuka Demizu thus sums up her intricately beautiful works of art, which it's a privilege to have discovered. She has a real talent for steampunk landscapes and the ensuing collision between humans and robots, usually with negative consequences for one or the other but in rare cases, the possibility of an actual bond that transcends their physical differences. And then there's the depiction of both aboveground and underwater worlds, with the latter almost more alluring - towering buildings driven by gears, fish swimming above our heads, ships with gaping mouths that can swallow others in a battle. I especially love her exploration of little homes/cities in the most unlikely locations, such as a flowerpot, a mechanical fish, a donut-shaped space station, and even a minestrone soup bowl. Long story short, she has a serious imagination which I truly admire.
As far as technique goes (and I'm no technical expert on this, so bear with my lack of terminology) - I'm so used to art that is made up of clean lines, or hyper-realistic to where the shapes are just standalone with no outlines, but much of the charm of Posuka Demizu's work lies in her use of sketch-like lines and keeping them in the final product. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but there's a certain organic nature to her art that might be lost if she chose to clean up the lines, and it somehow is more fitting for illustrating complicated images such as an enormous robot or an entire city. Her use of color is breathtaking as well - perhaps I'm biased because blue is my favorite color in all its different shades, but in works like Wonder Portal, Travel Log, and Ghost Ship Rampage it's used to such a masterful extent that I really wished I could be in those settings myself; the deep blue color lending such an air of mystery and wonder to each setting she employs it in.
I could probably go on for hours about every single painting of hers that I liked (and there wasn't one I didn't like, though I think many of them are open to interpretation). Mainly, I'd like to say that this is a rare combination of concept, emotion and skill that's immensely inspiring and which I'm so glad to have come across. I really hope some of these artworks will be the basis of a unifying and complex story, if they aren't already, because I would definitely be the first to buy it.
"If just a single drawing makes someone happy, it may mean that whatever I was experiencing or thinking about at the time is the same as what you were thinking about today."
Posuka Demizu thus sums up her intricately beautiful works of art, which it's a privilege to have discovered. She has a real talent for steampunk landscapes and the ensuing collision between humans and robots, usually with negative consequences for one or the other but in rare cases, the possibility of an actual bond that transcends their physical differences. And then there's the depiction of both aboveground and underwater worlds, with the latter almost more alluring - towering buildings driven by gears, fish swimming above our heads, ships with gaping mouths that can swallow others in a battle. I especially love her exploration of little homes/cities in the most unlikely locations, such as a flowerpot, a mechanical fish, a donut-shaped space station, and even a minestrone soup bowl. Long story short, she has a serious imagination which I truly admire.
As far as technique goes (and I'm no technical expert on this, so bear with my lack of terminology) - I'm so used to art that is made up of clean lines, or hyper-realistic to where the shapes are just standalone with no outlines, but much of the charm of Posuka Demizu's work lies in her use of sketch-like lines and keeping them in the final product. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but there's a certain organic nature to her art that might be lost if she chose to clean up the lines, and it somehow is more fitting for illustrating complicated images such as an enormous robot or an entire city. Her use of color is breathtaking as well - perhaps I'm biased because blue is my favorite color in all its different shades, but in works like Wonder Portal, Travel Log, and Ghost Ship Rampage it's used to such a masterful extent that I really wished I could be in those settings myself; the deep blue color lending such an air of mystery and wonder to each setting she employs it in.
I could probably go on for hours about every single painting of hers that I liked (and there wasn't one I didn't like, though I think many of them are open to interpretation). Mainly, I'd like to say that this is a rare combination of concept, emotion and skill that's immensely inspiring and which I'm so glad to have come across. I really hope some of these artworks will be the basis of a unifying and complex story, if they aren't already, because I would definitely be the first to buy it.
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