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:

Mastering Inking: Basic and Pro Techniques

   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