Renowned Japanese illustrator Katsuya Terada is back with a new art book titled Real Size – a splendid collection of his black marker art works, many of which were created during his live drawing events. The title refers to the print size of the reproductions which are at 100% scale of the original art works, large mural pieces which are cropped and presented across several pages in the book. The complete drawings are also included, scaled down to 16% of the original size.

Any artist who has attempted a large piece of art work recognizes the challenge of getting scaled up proportions correct; yet all of Terada’s art work featured in this book were done with no rough drafts, a true testament to the amazing skill of the artist.

“Codex Binding” has been used for this book, which allows for the spine to be spread fully and allows for great appreciation of the art work.

The publisher of this art book ( PIE Books International ) has been releasing high quality titles for the past few years ( like Otomo’s Posters art book ), and this volume is no exception – Terada’s stunning marker drawings are beautifully reproduced, and each page pack a fantastic visual punch. This book gets my highest recommendations.

Note – An English language version of the book is due to be published in October, with a slightly bigger page count ( 218 pages compared to this Japanese edition’s 202 ). The price is fairly higher, and while this is purely speculation on my part I do not suspect the contents to be radically different from this version; the book is almost 100% images and contain very little text, so almost nothing is lost by way of translation.

“Real Size – Katsuya Terada 寺田克也原寸” art book details :

Dimensions – 30.2 x 18 x 2.2 cm
Hardcover ( codex binding ), 202 pages
Full Color, in Japanese ( book contains mostly images )

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