Arai Ryoji

Arai Ryoji, campaign for Parco department store . Image taken fro his website, http://www.ryoji-arai.info/index.html
Arai Ryoji works as a children's book creator and illustrator.

When I imagined the artist who created this image, a Japanese man in his forties was not my first guess. It feels so carefree and enthusiastic while still being aesthetically beautiful.


I know it's cliche to say that young children's drawings are inspirational but that's because it is! His drawings here look unafraid and spntaneous like a child's, as though he has no worries. Of course, being an actual "grown up", he's thought about composition and colour. It is such a shame that by the time children can begin to use colour in a more sophisticated way like this, most of them have already began to be too self-concious.