A Drawing Life : Katsuya Terada Illustrations And Interview

Posted By yonghow on March 9th, 2015

Update November 2015 – Many of Terada’s illustrations featured in these online interviews are now collected in this art book.

On-going since November 2013, A Drawing Life is a series of monthly online interviews with famed manga artist/illustrator/concept artist Katsuya Terada, presented by Japanese publisher PIE Books.

The interviews ( in Japanese only ) are pretty in-depth and covers a wide range of topics including Terada-san’s working methods, discussions of his doodles and sketches, his wishlist for an ideal hardware set-up, experiences of his recent time spent in the U.S and much more. Peppered between the lengthy written interviews are numerous sketches and illustrations, all tasty stuff, some of which I have reproduced below :

Katsuya Terada Interview PIE Books

I wish I had the time to do a full English translation of the interviews ( it’s a fun read ), but I don’t. To read all the interviews, go here.

All images shown on this page courtesy of PIE Books & Katsuya Terada.

I also recommend my Katsuya Terada Art Books – The Big List, a comprehensive list of Terada-san’s published art books.

Update November 2015 – Many of Terada’s illustrations featured in these online interviews are now collected in this art book.

“A Drawing Life – Katsuya Terada 絵を描いて生きていく方法? 寺田克也” book details :

Dimensions – 20.2 x 15.4 x 2 cm
Softcover, 312 pages
Full Color, in Japanese

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Tags: Illustration, interview, katsuya terada, manga, PIE books

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6 Responses to “A Drawing Life : Katsuya Terada Illustrations And Interview”

Olbert
March 10th, 2015 at 4:11 am

Do you know if there is à différence between the international and japanese edition of dragon girls artbook?

yonghow
March 10th, 2015 at 10:29 pm

Olbert – From what I can understand on the Japanese edition’s Amazon product page, the Japanese edition seems to contain a couple more illustrations and words by Terada-san. I would say the majority of the content is unchanged though.

Vikau
March 15th, 2015 at 8:03 am

Many thanks for the great reviews. I have been meaning to get my hands on a Terada artbook, but there are many choices and your reviews of them makes me want to buy them all, alas, I can only get one. So I thought I would ask you if you could recommend just one of Terada’s books, which would that be?

Many thanks again and keep up the good work!

yonghow
March 15th, 2015 at 11:28 pm

Vikau – Thanks for the kind words. I think a good one to start with would be his Dragon Girl And Monkey King – The Art Of Katsuya Terada, which covers the biggest chronological range of his art work :

http://halcyonrealms.com/illustration/katsuya-terada-art-books-big-list/

Hafiz
March 18th, 2015 at 11:27 am

I would actually highly recommend his Rakugaking book because it contains literally millions of his works (although they’re primarily sketches) and comes in a well shaped format. Not as heavy and bulky as the Dragon girl book and not as tiny as his 10 year anniversary book. While i enjoyed the dragon girl book, it doesn’t give me as much joy as looking at the sketches available in Rakugaking.

Additionally i wish the 10 year anniversary book could come in a slightly larger format. There are some really fantastic Terada work in there i’d wish to see big. Especially his tokusatsu designs.