ART: Sketches of Ancient Asia by Kim JungGi (김정기)

JungGi Kim (김정기) - (17 Images)
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   The argument over artistic talent vs effort ends with Kim JungGi. He is a uniquely gifted master artist who draws sprawling wide-angle murals, in ink with no references, relying only on images in his mind & without making any mistakes. His most recent accomplishment was setting the Guinness World Record for longest & fastest fish-eye art illustration at Odeon in Penang, Malaysia.

HAIKU Art Review: Jung-Gi Kim

Freehand sketch master
Eraserless perfection
Divine fish-eyed view

   To fully understand Jung Gi's genius, watch the drawing performance he did for Christie's Auction House. He travels all over the world performing his art. Typically, he works for 2-3 days on a large mural while cameras record his progress, then the time-lapse video gets upload to his YouTube channel.  

JungGi Kim's Drawing Performance for Christie's

The Monkey King Art Collection

Sun Wukong (孙悟空) Art Collection
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    For over 400 years the tale, Journey to the West has been entertaining & inspiring audiences around the world. The handsome Monkey King is such a richly complex character, developing & changing through the course of his miraculous adventures.  

   Here I present for you, 16 artists from 8 countries with their interpretations of the Sage Equal to Heaven.

Felix Ip - China

ART: Peking Opera - Portraits on Silk

Portraits of Peking Opera Characters

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via: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

   Qing dynasty (1644–1911) album featuring 100 opera characters painted on silk with ink & gold. This post contains my 25 personal favorites.

   "This album records in detail the makeup and costume of one hundred characters drawn from nine plays. Each character is identified with an accompanying inscription, and the plays are named at the top right of nine of the leaves in slightly larger script." -The Met

ART: WangJia (王加) - Silky History

WangJia 王加 - A-she 阿舍
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HAIKU Art Review:

Textures of aged silk
Longing for what never was
Dreams of ancient times

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HAIKU Art Review: Yokai (妖怪) by Yellowmenace

Whimsical creatures
In fantastic fairy tales
Live again thru art

   Arrogant priests become 'Tengu' after death. They live in the mountains & can be good or evil.

   A video from The Japan Society listing the various types of Yokai.

ART: Yuko Shimizu (清水裕子) - The Men in Her Life

YUKO SHIMIZU (清水裕子)

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   Learn from a master, Yuko's SkillShare online class:

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   YUKO SHIMIZU (清水裕子) is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts.

   This post examines her depiction of males. Being Japanese, she seems to get lots of jobs illustrating samurai, martial artists, ninjas, & other traditional archetypes of the Asian male. But first...

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Crisp, crunchy colors

wavering youthful lines, say: 

a human drew this

Photo of Yuko photo: ©Anton Repponen 2012

    Although art has always been her passion, she had initially chosen a more practical path of studying advertising and marketing at Waseda University and took a job in corporate PR in Tokyo.

More of Yuko's unique inklings below