Smiling friend Painting

Painter. Work in Tokyo,Japan.Born 1985. I was impressed by Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits of rock stars and movie stars thus began to draw paintings of whom I admire. (My characters are based on my own imagination while Peyton draws references from reality) As I grew up watching manga, animation and illustration, I can only draw manga-like portraits with relatively flat facial figures, as I also naturally think that they are attractive. I started drawing portraits because I like photographs. I often become emotionally touched and amazed easily by a photograph, which I rarely experience when I see an artwork. I try to keep that emotional feeling in mind at all time. When I look at my own work I am always very careful and try to be as objective as possible. As all sorts of outrageous happenings are going on in this world, I still try to maintain a distanced attitude towards it and possibly isolate myself from it. I would say it is quite similar to being completely alone in the midst of a chaotic tornado. Such emotion serves as an exceedingly important factor to the making of my works.