【Illustrator】シオミヤイルカ (SHIOMIYA Iruka)
Part Three.
Haruka and Chihaya from The IDOLM@STER. Click to enlarge.
シオミヤイルカ (SHIOMIYA Iruka) is a professional illustrator who also releases independant doujinshi. He is best known for illustrating the covers of the two 戦姫 (Senhime/Battle Princess) light novels, and also for contributing this ED sequence artwork of Senjougahara Hitagi from Bakemonogatari. However, most of his non-commercial artwork are of The IDOLM@STER characters. Shiomiya owns a Mystic Silver PSP, listens to NAKAJIMA Miyuki and The Carpenters while drawing, uses Photoshop CS4 with a Wacom Intuos 4 on a Mac, and his favourite movies lately are Roman Holiday and Ratatouille.
Shiomiya’s not-really-anime style is marked by realistic shading, and the themes of his artwork are usually non-fantastical. His characters all have large round (sometimes oval-ish) eyes, but they usually have plausible poses, hairstyles, and clothing. Faces are wonderfully expressive, with many different emotions. Hair is probably one of his strongest points, since it always looks like it has weight and actual strands. However, Shiomiya’s colouring style is what makes his artwork stand out. Shading is sharp and accurate, and even though uses a lot of different colours, they’re always skillfully coordinated and never clash. He also has a good grasp on lighting, and knows how to integrate his beautiful backgrounds with the characters in the setting. Incredibly, his rough drafts are almost equally awesome as his coloured artwork.
Website: http://www.geocities.jp/shiomid/ (Downloads of his artwork+sketches for each year are posted here)
Blog: http://yaplog.jp/shiomid/
Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=9769
mefloraine 3:22 am on November 10, 2009 Permalink |
I’ve seen this artist before. I’ve always found their http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=3012867 to be attractive (I love that color balance), but I never wanted to bookmark him.
Guy 9:39 am on November 10, 2009 Permalink |
Request/suggestion?
Give more than 1 picture, like you’ve done sometimes before. I think 4-5 photos is good, especially if of differing styles, for us to know if we like it.
This is also based on researchers that show the tiny amount of click-throughs. Once you ask people to click a link, especially if you didn’t really get them all excited beforehands are pretty slim. Exponentially so for multiple links :-/
polymetrica 11:09 am on November 10, 2009 Permalink |
I’ll…try my best to incorporate that, but the reasons for usually only using one picture include:
1) Making the post representative of its length (Adding a picture not only makes a post look longer than it is, but it looks terrible with short paragraphs like these.), and not cluttering up the whole blog page, which looks almost bad with too many pictures.
2) I’m better able to illustrate particular points through click through links since I can add a description to them. Captions on pictures are no good because I can’t align them side by side, and takes up way too much space.
3) Usually if they don’t like the OP picture, which is supposed to be either one of their best works or highly representative of their style, they most likely won’t love the rest. This point may or may not be an unfounded assumption though.
It doesn’t really matter if most people click the links or not either, because it only matters to me that the people who are genuinely interested will click them. Not being interested and clicking them won’t be able to change their initial opinions that strongly, I believe.