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TATSURO KIUCHI
TATSURO KIUCHI
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Genkosha (2019/8/16)
Language: English and Japanese
Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 19.2 x 2.2 cm
It comes with a silver foil-pressed dust jacket, 320 pages in full color, more than 500 pieces of artwork included, and text in both Japanese and English. You can purchase this book through Amazon.com.
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I love art books. They are called gashu in Japanese. Gashu! sounds a bit like a sneeze, but my mind came up with the words gashu-nut. Of course, this is from cashew nut and being nuts about something is to be crazy about it, so its a good fit. Now I was really starting to chase my tail.
I dont often work in animation, draw manga or create 3-D objects. My focus has always been on drawing stand-alone pictures (flat stills). Even so, there was a point when I fretted myself into a mental block over the limitations of working within four corners and on unrelenting flat surfaces. Wondering if I should try working in 3-D to get out of my slump, I remembered the proverb about patience, ishi no ue ni mo san nen, literally, three years on a stone, meaning: persevere, even a stone will warm up if you sit on it long enough. In my case it was more like 10 years under a rock. Thats how long it took for me to discover my niche as an illustrator. I explored a lot of possibilities during that time, but ended up back where I started, with 2-D work. Ive realized that giving my all, within a plain and four corners, suits me. I find it infinitely satisfying.
I began this journey with my sights fixed on mainstream illustration work and inched forward in that direction until one day I realized how much time had passed, how much older I had become and that although I was striding determinedly forward, the mainstream seemed to have veered off in another direction. I am delighted to have my own gashu! art book. I am grateful to everyone involved.
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