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Beautiful Darkness, Boys over Flowers, bunny rabbit, comics, drawing styles, Hana Yori Dango, Illustration, illustration styles, ink drawing, Ironiya Sudby, Irony of Fate, Ivan's Childhood, Ivanogo Detstvo, kiss, Kuragehime, manga, movie poster, Omar, princess, Princess Jellyfish, Sarah Andersen, Soviet illustration, Stand Still Stay Silent, The City of 1950, The Cossacks, The Wire, Things I like, Tolstoy, Urban planning, webcomic
With this post I start a new, illustrious series: Things I like. Obviously this has something to do with my unending narcissism and general proclivity for collecting things. Illustration is something I’ve always been fond of, and I collect them in a folder on my computer. I don’t really follow particular artists, though I do like mid-century style stuff, simple drawings, and nice colours.
I’ve always liked manga and some of the soft way of drawing they have:
Some Western comics too have beautiful illustrations. I bought Beautiful Darkness because of it. You can read the first few pages here.
I recently found a webcomic called Stand Still Stay Silent which I adore, beautifully and dreamily illustrated. The world too is beautiful and a little creepy, and I feel like it has sometimes a similar feeling to Beautiful Darkness.
I also like simpler illustrations/comics, like those by Sarah Andersen. Sometimes I feel like they capture my essence:
I also like this type of illustration, where it’s mostly lines, hatching, and one colour. I guess they’re ink drawings? I like the level of detail in them. You often find them in older books, I suppose because they’re cheaper to print than photos or full colour illustrations.
I also like the Soviet-era illustrations you find on books and other media, like movie posters. Since most of my books are packed, I can’t take pictures for this post, but I have the posters for Ivan’s Childhood and the Irony of Fate, as well as of a Tolstoy cover I found at a bookstore in Toronto.
Anyways, that’s all for now.
Em out!