GR2: Nov 15th, 2014 Return of the Hot Pot Girls - Art Exhibition by Katsuya Terada

Return of the Hot Pot Girls

Exhibition of Art by Katsuya Terada 

November 15 - December 3, 2014

Reception: Saturday, Nov 15, 6:30-10pm

 

A year has passed since we hosted Hot Pot Girls by Katsuya Terada. Aside from his status as the "Doodle King," he practically holds, "legendary" status in Japan. While his audience for original art grows, his constant effort into work shows. He'll pursue a part II of his Hot Pot Girls series. We'll make an assumption that he hasn't had enough of the series. 2014 also marks his 30th year in illustration. 

 

We're hosting Terada in a series of events:

Sat  11/8 1p Signing / Designer Con Giant Robot Booth 814

Sun 11/16 2p Digital Demonstration / Book Signing

Sun 11/23 2p Live Drawing / Book Signing

 

Here's a Bio taken from Wikipedia. It's not the best bio, but it'll give you an idea of his greatness. 

Katsuya Terada is probably best known in the United States as the character-designer for the animated film Blood: The Last Vampire. He has also done work related to American comics, such as Iron Man and Hellboy (one of his illustrations was used for an official statuette of Hellboy). He also made additional contributions to old issues of Nintendo Power, including a special edition Strategy Guide for Dragon Warrior and "Zelda" artwork. In Japan, he has done the promotional illustrations for Detective Saburo Jinguji mystery-adventure video game series.

He was in charge of the book cover and illustrations for the Kimaira series written by Baku Yumemakura, and was in charge of cover design and illustrations for Garouden, Shin Majugari, and Yamigarishi as well.

Terada has defined himself as a "rakugaki" artist, more of a philosophy than a style of drawing, in which one draws a little everywhere, all the time, without thinking too much, on notebooks etc. He is a very prolific artist; one of his collections of sketches numbers more than 1000 pages, appropriately called Rakuga King.

He has done very little group-drawn work (an exception being the manga Saiyukiden Daienou (Monkey King)), his principal activities being illustration and character design.

His use of CG tools is integrated very well in his illustrations, giving his work a vivid and rich appearance. He has admitted various influences on his work, particularly European ones, like Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius) and the magazine Métal Hurlant which he has said gave him a taste for strong women who are slightly stripped.