Range Murata @ J-List

Comickers Art Style 1 ~ Latest Color Techniques

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:04:11 -0500

Comickers Art Style 1 ~ Latest Color Techniques

With a large subculture devoted entirely to creating comic and graphic art, Japan appears to lead the globe in comic art, with many publications dedicated to just the creation. The most prominent is Comickers, a publication whose raison d'etre seems to be to teach the various methods of comic art creation directly from the professionals. In this side publication dedicated to color technique, Comickers assembles a gathering of pros to teach us how it's done, and the lineup presented here is...

Orange -- Koji Morimoto

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:13:41 -0400

Orange -- Koji Morimoto

Whether you know it or not, you have already been exposed to much of Koji Morimoto's work, especially if you are an anime fan. His credits include Franken's Gears (from Robot Carnival), Akira, Magnetic Rose (from Memories), Extra (with Ken Ishii), Survivor (with Glay), Beyond (from The Animatrix) and more. An impressive record of films and anime shorts that has lead him to become one of the top artists in Japanese design, art, anime, manga and commercial ventures in Japan. This large, extra...

robot 10 ~ Super Color Comic

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:49:17 -0500

robot 10 ~ Super Color Comic

Without a doubt, Japanese manga have given rise to some fantastic master artists who have taken the art form and raised it to new levels. Art imitating life that now imitates it in kind. The tenth in an ongoing series collecting the works of top notch, well-known artists is not to be missed by any serious manga fan. Gathered in this collection of color and B&W manga this time are Range Murata, Mami Itou, Imperial Boy, NeonVision, Miggy, Kei Toume, Lain artist and character designer Yoshitoshi...

Robot 9 ~ Super Color Comic

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:19:15 -0400

Robot 9 ~ Super Color Comic

Without a doubt, Japanese manga have given rise to some fantastic master artists who have taken the art form and raised it to new levels. Art imitating life that now imitates it in kind. The ninth in an ongoing series collecting the works of top notch, well-known artists is not to be missed by any serious manga fan. Gathered in this collection of color and B&W manga this time are Range Murata, SABE, Shin Nagasawa, Miggy, Roboinu, Tokiya, YOhshitoshi ABE, Imperial Boy, Neonvision, Yamato...