Takato Yamamoto (Part 2)

Takato Yamamoto () is a Japanese painter and manga artist. He is most known for developing a unique style that he termed “Heisei aestheticism”, which blends influences from Japanese ukiyo-e painting with Western gothic art to create dark, but beautiful images. His surrealistic and highly detailed works often explore themes of violence, death and sexuality to create unsettling and highly symbolic imagery. [from: ] What kind of tools and painting materials do you use for drawing? Drawing the rough sketch I use pencil and mechanical pencils. And I start to draw on paper by pigment-ink or on canvas by an acrylic pigment, etc. You have so many art works, all very detailed. How long you take to create one piece? About one week with a small one. It takes one month or more when it is a large one. It rarely happens for it to take several months. What is your process to create art works? Day by day the artwork is changed by meeti