KATSUYA TERADA REAL SIZE Hardcover – October 1, 2019
This is one of my favorite books published in 2019. I picked this up directly from the publisher SUPERANI back in October. Here’s a link to their site - SUPERANI
I was lucky enough to get a copy with an original sketch by the artist - Katsuya Terada! (You can see the sketch at the end of the flip video - at the end of this post.)
Sadly they are sold out but you can get the unsigned version from Amazon HERE!
I’ve been a huge fan of Katsuya Terada since buying the “Creature Core” book back in ’92 - that was published by Hobby Japan and Yasushi Nirasawa! Get that book if you can!!!
Terada’s work had a huge impact on my teenage brain. Whether it was sculpting or illustration. I had never seen ideas drawn like that before. It was sexy and dark! I wanted to draw subject matter like this guy! Everything he was doing was just so damn cool! I did a series of “stitch girls” for gig posters that were heavily inspired by Terada.
Since then I’ve been trying to get my hands on any and every book that features Terada’s work. The most current book - “KATSUYA TERADA REAL SIZE” makes it 14 books total I’ve been collecting on his work. I find his work VERY inspiring.
If you dig Moebius aka Jean Giraud then you’ll dig this artist!
I chose this book to start the BOOK FIEND CLUB blog because I had just watched a great mini-documentary on Terada - “Katsuya Terada - Life Drawing”. I blame Dave Crosland for turning me onto Archipel - the people behind this doc and many other cool docs about Japanese artists!!!
This book showcases a lot of the current (2011-2018) “life drawing” pieces he has done. The pieces are so big that they are printed at 16% of the original size with cropped parts printed at 100%. The scale and amount of detail is amazing. Especially since a lot of the pieces are drawn directly with a marker and no sketch underneath. Personally, I don’t have the guts to attempt something like that yet.
The whole book is inspiring! But I had to limit my picks to a few pages that I liked the most and found inspiring. I also made a quick flip video of the book so you can see all the amazing art inside. Hopefully, it’ll inspire you to go to a convention, bookstore, the SUPERANI site or AMAZON to find out more about Katsuya Terada!!!
KATSUYA TERADA REAL SIZE Hardcover –October 1, 2019
Hardcover: 202 pages
Publisher: PIE International; Bilingual edition (October 1, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 4756251870
ISBN-13: 978-4756251879
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1 x 12 inches
