Katsuya Terada is probably best known in the US as the
character-designer for the animated film Blood- The Last Vampire.
He has also done work related to American comics, such as Iron Man
and Hellboy . He also made additional contributions to issues of
Nintendo Power, including a special edition Strategy Guide for
Dragon Warrior. In Japan, he has done the promotional illustrations
for Detective Saburo Jinguji mystery-adventure video game
series.
He was in charge of the book cover and illustrations for the
Kimaira series written by Baku Yumemakura, and was in charge of
cover design and illustrations for Garouden, Shin Majugari, and
Yamigarishi as well.
Terada has defined himself as a "rakugaki" artist, more of a
philosophy than a style of drawing, in which one draws a little
everywhere, all the time, without thinking too much, on notebooks
etc. He is a very prolific artist; one of his collections of
sketches numbers more than 1000 pages, appropriately called Rakuga
King.
He has done very little group-drawn work (an exception being the
manga Saiyukiden Daienou (Monkey King), his principal activities
being illustration and character design.
His use of CG tools is integrated very well in his illustrations,
giving his work a vivid and rich appearance. He has admitted
various influences on his work, particularly European ones, like
Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius) and the magazine Metal Hurlant. The
author lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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