The Art Of Tokiya

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I was pretty damn excited to finally track down the works of Tokiya, an artist that I ran into briefly in 2010, while researching an underground Japanese DJ called Technorch. Tokiya had created some truly awesome illustrations for the slips that came with the albums, albeit having an anonymous monicker (Arma Eater) that made it impossible to track him down.

I love his work for its experimental nature, with each piece in his gallery typically encapsulating a few different techniques and visual styles that surprisingly work really well together. Whereas some artists choose to find contrast via color or subject matter in their illustrations, Tokiya experiments with ideas like placing a flat rendered character on an incredibly painterly background, among other approaches, or intentionally generating compression artifacts in his images for visual flair. Check out more of his unique work after the break!