How Japanese Artists Bring Digital Art to Life

I kept seeing this method called “UV Printing“ being used by so many artists like Taiki, Yoneyama Mai, and Mika Pikazo! So I decided to look deeper into it, and give it a try myself! Artists Mentioned: Yoneyama Mai: Taiki: Mika Pikazo: MON: Rella: Teru: LAM: rurudo: & BufferinChudoku (Book Designer): Vincent Chansard: BUNBUN: Levinky: Artworks That I Used For Prints: [1] [Yoneyama Mai 1] [2] [LAM 1] [3] [SWITCH Magazine] [4] [Yoneyama Mai 2] [5] [Yoneyama Mai 3] [6] Screenshot From Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Ep 17 [7] Various manga : Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man [8] [Yoneyama Mai 4] [9] [Yoneyama Mai 5] [10] [Wood Levinky] [11] [Wood Yoneyama Mai 5] [12] [Wood LAM 2] —————————————————————————— Helpful Resources For Video’s Research (Books, Video, Stores, Websites, etc) - No Affiliations: Stores & Books: Levinky’s Print Store: SSS Rearise - Taiki Book: SSS Rearise’s Book (A lot of info on UV Printing Process!): SSS Rearise Store: Yoneyama Mai’ EYE Book (BTS of exhibition): LAM’s Store: Mika Pikazo’s Store (Latest exhibition’s merch): These 2 companies; FlatLabo and SHOEI INC. handled most of the UV printing for illustrator’s exhibitions that I saw: FlatLabo: SHOEI INC. Videos: Yoneyama Mai’s Exhibition BTS: FlatLabo BTS Vid: FlatLabo PV: ——————————————————————————- Big part of this video was inspired by Taiki, Yoneyama Mai, and SSS rearise exhibitions. Their works broke the norm of a typical illustration gallery, which inspires me to broaden my horizon as an artist and illustrator! Taiki Exhibition: Yoneyama Mai Exhibition: SSS Re＼arise: Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:36 What Is UV Printing? 02:38 My Attempt & Experiments 06:17 Conclusion Any questions? Feel free to message me! 🤔 edit: name of mon’s artwork @1:58 is 業火 ! edit 2: A lot of people asked about the printer. I think it’s a UV printer by Roland VersaUV series.. I did my prints at a school print shop, so I didn’t get access to the printer myself sorry!