Tadahiro Uesugi
Tadahiro Uesugi is an illustrator and an animator, who works in Japan. He creates intuitive drawings of landscapes, characters, and scenery, using innovative colours and textures. He was born in 1966. HE graduated Setu Mode Seminar of Nagasawa Setu, a school focusing on fashion illustration.
After graduating, he worked as an assistant for Manga artist Jiro Taniguchi for 7 years. He now is a freelance illustrator, illustrating for magazine, advertisements, book covers, movie posters, and concept art and CD jackets. He appreciates France, and French artists such as Moebius. As part of his works, he contributed to French Elle, and designed a one-sheet poster for Japanese theatrical release of the French feature film “Fauteuils d’orchestre”.
He recently won an Annie Award for his work as a concept artist, and a production designer on the stop motion Feature Film “Coraline”.
Not a lot about Uesugi is shared to public, but he has been sharing his techniques and step-by-step processes of creating his work on Japanese magazines.
It is not rare that people do not notice that he is work are computer graphic art. He uses Photoshop, and his custom brush tool to create his work. Firstly, he draws everything in grayscale with his graphics tablet. Then he changes the image into colour by changing each different tones of grey into a colour. When that is done, he adds texture to the image by overlaying the texture image onto the artwork.
He explained in the interview he did for a magazine, that he is trying to make his pieces close to reality yet not too realistic and keep some bits abstract.
He also talked that at the earlier stage of his career, he was trying to fit the target audience of the magazine and was trying to create a piece that fitted the purpose rather than freely expressing himself. Recently however, the types of job that he gets got wider in range, so he has much more freedom to work with.
“Before I mainly drew people, but it slowly
After graduating, he worked as an assistant for Manga artist Jiro Taniguchi for 7 years. He now is a freelance illustrator, illustrating for magazine, advertisements, book covers, movie posters, and concept art and CD jackets. He appreciates France, and French artists such as Moebius. As part of his works, he contributed to French Elle, and designed a one-sheet poster for Japanese theatrical release of the French feature film “Fauteuils d’orchestre”.
He recently won an Annie Award for his work as a concept artist, and a production designer on the stop motion Feature Film “Coraline”.
Not a lot about Uesugi is shared to public, but he has been sharing his techniques and step-by-step processes of creating his work on Japanese magazines.
It is not rare that people do not notice that he is work are computer graphic art. He uses Photoshop, and his custom brush tool to create his work. Firstly, he draws everything in grayscale with his graphics tablet. Then he changes the image into colour by changing each different tones of grey into a colour. When that is done, he adds texture to the image by overlaying the texture image onto the artwork.
He explained in the interview he did for a magazine, that he is trying to make his pieces close to reality yet not too realistic and keep some bits abstract.
He also talked that at the earlier stage of his career, he was trying to fit the target audience of the magazine and was trying to create a piece that fitted the purpose rather than freely expressing himself. Recently however, the types of job that he gets got wider in range, so he has much more freedom to work with.
“Before I mainly drew people, but it slowly