Nobumasa Takahashi draws

8 Feb 2006 Category: Events & Exhibitions, Features, Graphics, Illustration, Japan, Top Page 10

Nobumasa Takahashi draws

Nobumasa Takahashi drawing on a small part of the huge, white wall

Nobumasa Takahashi is a young Japanese illustrator, who possesses an impressive range of different styles. He does contract work (e.g. beautiful abstract paintings for Isetan) as well as free artwork (e.g. individual respect series he dedicates to his favorite artists Egon Schiele or English fairy tale illustrator Arthur Rackham).


illustration for Isetan

part of the Arthur Rackham serie

illustration of the Egon Schiele series

With his interactive project Japanese Graffiti he pays his tribute to traditional Japanese sumie-drawings, the origin of manga comics. “And then look at what is happening on the streets in Japan - this rising awareness of street art and graffiti. Somehow I can see a connection between these two ways of drawing. With this exhibition I am trying to fusion these two, expressing my respect for both of them.” is what Nobumasa Takahashi told me, when I came to see his current exhibition at Space Force in NakaMeguro.

Nobumasa still drawing …

The exhibition started on January 17th and the goal is to fill up the entire big wall with Nobumasa’s drawings. What an incredible amount of work! When I asked him what is going happen with the finished work when the exhibition is over, he only smiled, saying:“They will paint it white again - and this no problem for me at all! I enjoy having the chance to draw here everyday and watch this project grow.”

geisha and….customer?

I could have spent ages in front of the wall only gazing at the images inside the images. So many ideas!

Shige-car and Betty-tower

Nobumasa asks his visitors to Give him ideas! and everyone seems happy to write a “wish” on a piece of duct tape.


wish-tape

finished! - written on completed wish-tape

English wish-announcement

The artist examines the tape and then puts it on the wall, somewhere where he thinks this “wish” would fit best into the huge collage of ideas. Beautiful to see it grow constantly.

I gave him a hard one, asking for the Japanese interpretation of my name “Uleshka” (which can be read as something like joyful scent in Japanese). He came up with the drawing of a fragrence-smoke-person coming out of burning incense spreading lots of hearts (they stand for the happy part he said) … thank you!


Uleshka interpretation

visitor wanting Nobumasa to include her flowers in the drawing

Seems like he can come up with visuals for any idea. Look! Girls dancing Hawaiian hula dance on a heart-shaped laptop.

Hawaiian hula dance on a heart-shaped laptop

And now look at these sockets!!!

invisible sockets

Sometimes Guest Artists are allowed to draw something, too. Then Nobumasa Takahashi finds a way to embed their graphics in the big picture.


space-men-chain by guest artist

Super-Lobo-Superman by guest artist

My favorites were these children’s scribbles! (They are actually the scribbles of an artist’s kids … beautifully embedded!!!)

scribbles by guest artist’s kids

This is definitely the exhibition with the most positive energy I have ever been to!!!
I highly recommend to go and see it if you have a chance! It’s on until February 18th and will end with a big “wall completion party”. Full info on Tokyo Art Beat.

Keep drawing, Nobumasa-san!!!

Nobumasa draws non-stop

NOTE: We just received the completed painting from Nobumasa! View the finished event space HERE and the completed wall HERE! About 1000 people came to view the exhibition and submit ideas. He is very happy about that and says thanks to every single visitor! Nobumasa is now working on a DVD - editing the footage of him drawing (from the first day to the last).

113 Comments

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  2. hey - that really reminds me of super-boring highschool classes. i guess nobumasa had some really bad teachers at school … but i still like his work a lot!

    Posted by: mattes on February 8th, 2006 at 3:27 am

  3. It’s wonderful how he’s able to add a sense of 3-dimensional space even with a sprawling unplanned drawing.

    Posted by: Jdesign on February 8th, 2006 at 3:30 am

  4. This Nobumasa is great! Very impressive, very talented! Keep the good work with these wonderful articles!

    Posted by: Eriksen on February 8th, 2006 at 4:02 am

  5. kakkoi desu yo! reminds me of kozyndan!
    please post a pic of the whole finished wall when it’s finally completed. :)

    Posted by: natalia on February 8th, 2006 at 8:32 am

  6. wow, that’s really awesome and detailed! i like nobumasa’s art and yeah like natalia said above, it reminds me of kozyndan’s work also. i wonder if nobumasa was told off by his parents not to draw on the walls as a kid… hehehe ^______^

    Posted by: G on February 8th, 2006 at 11:12 am

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  15. i love it very very very very very much. can i ask thou, what kind of marker he used to draw on the painted wall?
    i want to start doing my own at my backyard! such an inspirative artist. love the work.gorgeous style. :)

    Posted by: jovietajane on February 22nd, 2006 at 10:12 pm

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    Posted by: jovietajane on March 10th, 2006 at 11:09 pm

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    Posted by: dagang on April 8th, 2006 at 6:27 pm

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    Posted by: Justin on April 22nd, 2006 at 6:29 pm

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    Posted by: farmerbob on April 23rd, 2006 at 2:36 am

  23. I really like your art work - the wall is amazing I wish I could see it in real live!

    Posted by: Alexandre Rosa on April 24th, 2006 at 3:29 am

  24. This dude is a true genius.

    Posted by: Tommy Kane on April 26th, 2006 at 3:11 am

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    have a nice works ;)

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    Posted by: Ryu on February 15th, 2007 at 8:48 pm

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