Japanese artist Tomohiro Inaba  probably loves drawing.  So much so that a sketchbook became too limited and the drawings broke out of boring flatness of 2D pages into exciting 3D realm of a gallery floors




Less is more.  Why continue making the whole deer if you already fully expressed its graceful delicate fragileness by showing just the front part?


She was a beautiful girl.  And it was impossible to look away from her elegant dancer feet.  Everything else just blurred..

Looking at Tomohiro's personal site it is interesting to study how this style had developed. 

From 2002 solid Eating


Things started melting away in 2005


By 2008 amazing works like this one start appearing (or partially disappearing)...

And the artist had learned how to make full impact by making just a few right "pencil marks"


Less is indeed more!

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