My first experience of Yoshitaka Amano's work was through my all-time favourite comic, The Sandman. Amano-sensei had collaborated with Neil Gaiman and the result was a beautiful story with stunning artwork, "The Dreamhunters". And that was it - love at first sight.
His art always seems to me at once very simple - few doodling lines making up faces - and very elaborate - the attention to the details on ornaments, fruit, flowers is amazing. A friend once commented Amano-sensei's work reminded her of Klimt for its vicious colours - I can see what she meant. For me, it's simply a brilliant "marriage" of both Western and Eastern art.
After all the philosophising, let the pictures speak for themselves...
The Dreamer
Vampire Hunter D
Elric the Vanishing Tower
Flowers and Snakes
Aloft fruit of Paradise
Beast one that reveres DarknessAnd the man himself
image from photobucketMany thanks to elevenland.com for the images.
And, fuck. I only got the first volume of Hero and the second has been out of print for ages... *mutters curses*
1 comment:
did i tell you that i plan to get a tattoo based on an amano's drawing? he is unbelievable artist!
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