Updating to share my favorite new artist with you! I've seen his work before, but forgot to look it up. Then I picked up the latest issue of Juxtapoz.
I think Suehiro Maruo has singl-handedly cured my creative slump.
There are some crazy-awesome Japanese paintings, design, tattoo art and even Kustom Cars in the latest issue of Juxtapoz, so if you have a soul or even a spark of curiosity or creativity you should pick up a copy.
I'm going to try and get my new web page up before the end of the month... it will be totally knock your socks of awesome. I promise... scouts honor! I am also going to finally get off my ass and finish this painting. The spell has been broken! My crazy brain is finally working!
xoxoko
I think Suehiro Maruo has singl-handedly cured my creative slump.
There are some crazy-awesome Japanese paintings, design, tattoo art and even Kustom Cars in the latest issue of Juxtapoz, so if you have a soul or even a spark of curiosity or creativity you should pick up a copy.
I'm going to try and get my new web page up before the end of the month... it will be totally knock your socks of awesome. I promise... scouts honor! I am also going to finally get off my ass and finish this painting. The spell has been broken! My crazy brain is finally working!
xoxoko
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anyway, in attempting to track down a dealer for Suehiro, i found this bio. maybe it mention all this in Juxtapoz, but i'm not at work right now, so i can't look it up. it makes me want to find out more...
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Suehiro Maruo is a self-taught high school dropout and former shoplifter who began drawing comics at the age of eighteen. His first work, submitted to the weekly manga Shonen Jump, was promptly rejected. His dark style fantasy dreams didn't fit in the commercialized, mass-market magazines. It took five more years before he started drawing comics again, this time for Ero-manga. Besides trying to make a living out of his talents, it was also part of a quest for artistic freedom. Maruo draws nightmares. In the tradition of muzan-e (atrocity print) woodblock masters of the 19th century, he drew short stories of axe murders, abortion, rape and incest in as much graphic detail as the obscenity codes allowed.