The Japanese tradition, the one cataloged not only by the ancient classical masters, but also by contemporary interpreters who stick to the most codified Japanese tattoo style, includes the taste and personal touch of Ichibay, a point of reference now celebrated internationally for this style and author of the new book just published by Tattoo Life, Ichibay, Lines and Drawings.
ICHIBAY – LINES AND DRAWINGS
ART BOOK + TRAVEL TOOL BOOK
A fine art book, over 300 pages with thousands of drawings, to browse through in the studio plus a handy softcover book to take with you wherever you go, practical in format with over 100 pages and hundreds of additional line drawings.
Nowadays so many artists worldwide emulate his work and model their work on his. Because his tattoos have this traditional flavour, not only in the classic themes which anyone approaching Japanese includes in their language, but also in the brushstroke of the drawing, the softness of the lines, the taste for movement and that study of poses of the same subject which means no piece is ever repeated.
“I believe Ichibay’s work to be the link between traditional and modern Japanese tattooing – says the publisher Miki Vialetto in the intro of the book – No one has succeeded in this task better than he, and this is why I have chosen to include his name in The Great Books on The Art of Tattooing series dedicated to international tattoo artists whose work has added a crucial piece and set an example to follow in the art of tattooing.
Flowers, warriors, dragons and iconic characters such as geishas, demons, ghosts, each characterized by different features or cut, have been collected by Ichibay for this new volume as study drawings, pure in shapes, essential in lines. Sometimes characterized by that sense of magical irony that Japanese culture manages to instill in visual art.
Real and imaginary animals, such as cats, carp, foxes, frogs, Fudo, snakes, foxes, crabs, tigers, spiders in hundreds of different poses and movements, are studied in close-up details in a succession of 300 pages and thousands of drawings.
The intention of this book, this art volume, is to offer an object of study to refer to when setting out to draw a particular subject, in the knowledge that this is the point of arrival for which to strive for perfection.
Therefore, in addition to the already more than complete 300 pages of the main volume, a second book is added, practical in format, a tattoo tool with hundreds of images to take with you to delve into the Japanese style step by confident step.
ICHIBAY – LINES AND DRAWINGS
ART BOOK + TRAVEL TOOL BOOK
A fine art book, over 300 pages with thousands of drawings, to browse through in the studio plus a handy softcover book to take with you wherever you go, practical in format with over 100 pages and hundreds of additional line drawings.
