{"id":520,"date":"2011-07-01T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T01:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natashabarr.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2019-05-08T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:52:21","slug":"favourite-artists-yoshitaka-amano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/inspiration\/favourite-artists-yoshitaka-amano\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite Artists: Yoshitaka Amano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Yoshitaka
Yoshitaka Amano<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It seemed fitting to post about Amano’s work since he did the concept art for Final Fantasy X, which I only just finished! I know that game came out years ago, however it’s been in my pile of shame of ages anf I thought I should finish it (the ending was so sad, I got teary eyed :() – but back to the artist! This week I’m featuring Yoshitaka Amano<\/a>, a well known Japanese artist who has created numerous character and logo designs as well as concept illustrations for Square Enix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work is always so full of detail and beautiful wispy lines that seem to just flow through the artwork. I like how he uses colour as well; it’s not exactly bursting out of the canvas like Sylvia Ji’s paintings<\/a>, but he knows how to balance it with the surrounding space and work with tones. His illustrations are often of fantasy\/sci-fi subject matter and have a lovely asian styling to them, despite being influenced by Western comic books. They remind me a lot of traditional Japanese paintings<\/a> actually, in the way he uses colour, the thin pencil lines and the intricate details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Below is just a small selection of his work. He doesn\u2019t have a website but you can google him and find more information about him and his illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Yoshitaka
Yuna<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Yoshitaka
Vampire Hunter D<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Yoshitaka
Tidus & Yuna<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Yoshitaka
Tidus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Yoshitaka
FFX-2 Gullwings Team<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Yoshitaka
Final Fantasy VI Concept Art<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Yoshitaka<\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seemed fitting to post about Amano’s work since he did the concept art for Final Fantasy X, which I only just finished! I know that game came out years ago, however it’s been in my pile of shame of ages anf I thought I should finish it (the ending was so sad, I got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19],"tags":[92,21],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","tag-favourite-artists","tag-illustration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}