Illustrator with Horrible Fantasy Style —— Who is Kagaya, a Japanese Illustrator?

Find the original source of these two illustrations, the first one,

This is the cover illustration created for "Ancient and Modern Legends-Fantasy Edition". At that time, after receiving the invitation from the publishing house, I had a detailed communication with the other party on the positioning of creative style. I'm glad that the other party doesn't have too many restrictions on creative style and theme, which gives a lot of room for development.

In the view of commercial illustrators, it is good to have enough free creative space, which can show the author's own style and the pictures he wants to express to readers to a great extent. Of course, after all, this is a business cooperation. As an illustrator, we still need to keep in touch with customers in the process of creation, so as to get information in time and make necessary changes. Let's share with you the creative process of this commercial work.

First of all, introduce the equipment:

Before we get the business list and enter the formal creation, we usually communicate with our customers on the style and theme of painting. This picture is applied to the cover of a fantasy magazine, so the overall positioning of the picture is very clear.

So how to find the feeling of fantasy? In my opinion, fantasy illustration belongs to a kind of realistic illustration, or it is based on the sublimation of realistic evolution. On the noumenon of characters, there are the characteristics of realistic characters, and at the same time there is no lack of artistic refinement, which makes them look more beautiful and handsome; In clothing and environment, it is full of fantasy elements, adding symbols of Chinese and western cultures, and overhead history, giving readers a sense of modernity and retro.

In this work, I want to draw an elf. This elf is different from the sharp ears we see in animation and film and television works. She became the shape of a bow and an arrow. She is a fairy growing in roses and thorns, full of charm but hard to touch.

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Who is Kagaya, a Japanese fantasy illustrator? Kagaya was born in 1968. Japanese fantasy illustrator, good at digital painting.

1996, the illustration of Zodiac 12 Palace was released in Japan and was deeply loved by the public. Since then, many excellent works have appeared in CG field, and an exhibition called "KAGAYA Constellation Art" has been held. As an astronomical illustrator, Kaga Koga has been the cover painter of the astronomical magazine HOSINABI, and has created many astronomical illustrations. The production of "Exploration of Heaven" began at 1997. 1998 won the gold medal of trans-modernarttd.1998 "Digital Fantastic Art Conference", and published "Exploration of Celestial Bodies" in Japan in the same year and "Exploration of Celestial Bodies" in oil painting in the second year. In 2000, the oil painting of the zodiac was released; Ambiente won the first prize of digital painting in the 7th annual micro-publishing news digital art competition (test) held by Hewlett-Packard Company. His masterpieces include works of art such as Exploration of Heaven, Zodiac, Four Seasons Book Encyclopedia, Journey to the Interstellar World, Journey to the Solar System, Journey to the Universe and Night on the Galaxy Railway. His CG works are beautiful and profound, with a strong sense of transparency. The content combines ancient myths with modern technology, which is widely welcomed by fans and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

The most famous group of these beautiful pictures is the twelve constellations widely circulated on the Internet. The letter KAGAYA is often used as a sign to decorate the corners of beautiful illustrations. Please open your mouth and try to spell K-A-G-A-Y-A. This is the man who once looked up at the sky and looked forward to interstellar space, full of fantasy. Now he is an astronomical illustrator who is over 30 but still full of fantasy, and a Japanese CG master.

The pictures of Kagaya's works are extremely detailed, and all these pure and beautiful fantasies, such as clear and vast starry sky, dancing petals and goddess of stars, have built a new world. His favorite themes are human beings, the earth, the universe, dreams and longings, because these things are universal regardless of nationality or race.

What does Cthulhu style mean? Cthulhu style is a novelist.

Lovecraft

The legendary system was born.

Cthulhu's style is an anti-myth system. The characters do not distinguish between good and evil, God is not a god, magic is not magic, and there is no emotion for human beings. Cthulhu style originated from the mythological system created by science fiction writers headed by Lovecraft in the last days.

In the novel story of Cthulhu legend, characters may meet through exploration or some opportunities.

Great old friend

Or other cosmic races, their results are mostly death and madness.

but

cthulhu mythos

It is not a myth in essence, but a legend. Myth is a kind of folk literature.

A long time ago

The collective oral creation of the people.

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In the novel stories of Cthulhu mythology, God is not a god, and the devil is not a devil. There is no distinction between good and evil. There is no pity, anger and disgust for human beings. They even look at them lazily unless they are angered by humans.

To put it simply, in the myth system of "Wandering", it is characterized by expressing the smallness and nothingness of human beings through the infinite universe and powerful existence. All the exploration of the mysterious unknown will lead to the end of the disaster, which will make you more depressed, and then think about it with great fear, which is essentially a kind of

agnosticism

Derivation of

At present, the representative works with Cthulhu style in the online world are

cuttlefish

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The king of secrets

Of course, the Cthulhu style is also reflected in other literary works in the world, such as Japanese animation.

Ultraman

All kinds of monsters and Altman in the series are closely related to the myth system of Cthulhu.

Reference source:

The myth of Cthulhu