Yoshitomo Nara

Yoshitomo Nara is a japanese artist who is one of the most influential artists to emerge from Japan during the Pop art movement. Most of his paintings are sculptures of cartoon children and animals. Many people can easily approach his drawings because most of his drawings are familiar child-like art. Probably most of people might have seen the similar characteristics of his paintings in some kinds of Japanese cartoons.  He draws mind toddlers or infant animals with balloon heads...I was surprised that his art is the product of a painfully lonely childhood. I think thats why some of his paintings are little girls smoking in order to express the painful lonely childhood! I personally liked this artist paintings!

Chris Johanson

Chris Johanson is an American painter and street artist. He is a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement. Johanson's works, involving expressing urban themes through found and recycled materials and graffiti, are a response to his suburban childhood.  Most of his works are brightly colored and and humorously colored. First of his drawings is very colorful and it seems like he wants to express every different type of cultures. He draws many different types of people with various colors in most of his drawings. I read explanations about his artworks and learned that bright colors not to draw an insect to a flame to be harmed but show possibility. I personally liked his drawing styles because his works were easily approachable. 

Ryoko Aoki

Ryoko Aoki is a japanese artist who draws landscapes of pastoral scenes, and everyday objects. Her drawings looked very simple and child-like to me when I first glanced at her art works. Drawings feel spontaneous and improvised, with lines that are alternately delicate and thick, looping, and stick-straight. Her drawings also have a feel that they are definitely East-Asian drawings. When I first looked at the first drawing of her works, I didn't think it would be such a masterpiece of an artist because it looked just like non-artists could draw it like this too. I saw so many kinds of the second drawing types of work in East-Asian cultures, but I was not sure she wanted to express... probably some flowers and trees? The last drawing captured my eyes... I thought this artwork was unbelievably amazing that she used unique colors to make the nature so beautiful. Delicate and fantastic illustrations take inspirations things around her like plants...She used fine lined drawings to create more sensible drawings and imaginations!!!! absolutely amazing!!!

Nobuya Hoki

Nobuya hoki is a japanese artist who was born in 1966  and a graduate from the kyoto city University of Art. When I looked at the list of artists on Journal's page, this person captured my eyes because Nobuya hoki was definitely a japanese name and I thought it would be interesting to explore Japanese's artist's world.  Nobuya hoki's drawings appear to consist of little more than nondescript linear expressions when I first glanced it, but if you glance at the drawing carefully, most of his lines are made up of two lines. First two drawings look like he drew these with a graphite pencil. I honestly don't really know what his drawings represent because his drawings look like doodling. The last drawing is a little different than the first two drawings that he used acrylic on paper.