Self Portrait School Blog

This is an interesting case. It’s modern day art, in a modern situation, but it’s drawn with an updated version of the traditional Korean artstyle.

Korean artstyle is quite distinctive. Every Asian artstyle has its own traits, and Korean is no different. Korean art tends to use minimal shadows, with the only ones really used are on the ground.

This is traditional Korean calligraphy. 

Korean calligraphy is done similar to many others. using gentle ink brush strokes to write sentences writing down and back. The red ink in the middle is used to represent how it is finished.

This graffiti art was done in tribute. The art is of YouTuber Desmond Amofah, who’s known as Etika online.

Desmond committed suicide several months ago, losing a battle against deteriorating mental health. His many fans have created a lot of art in tribute for him, but several artists went the next level and created a mural in his honor.

Not only is it a beautiful art piece, it truly shows how much the fans cared about it.

A wallpaper from a recent video game, Devil May Cry 5. Why is this one unique and influential? Well, not only does it mix 2D and 3D elements, it had been 11 years since the last installment of the series.

They pulled out all the stops for this video game, and it shows. Not only can you feel the effort, you can feel the love in it, how much the creators appreciate their fans. Was it worth the wait? 

And now, a manga shot from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Said manga series has been running for a very long time (in publication since 1987). What makes it so unique is that the art is fantastic, even though it’s from an older series.

The picture of a more obscure video game, Project X Zone. (Specifically, the sequel.)

Why this is unique is that it is a crossover. Crossover video games usually have a new art team to work on all the characters. However, for this game series, they actually bring back the artists from ALL of the video game franchises to work together. While some may think this would create a clash between the more ‘anime’ characters and the realistic ones, it surprisingly doesn’t, and it blends spectacularly well.

An now for a more recent jump in animation, this is a scene from the hit anime series, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Demon Slayer. This is a scene from episode 19, where both anime watchers, manga readers, and even those that are not a fan of the show found fantastic.

The animation, which was already beautiful, makes an astronomical jump this episode, making one of the greatest scenes in modern anime.

This jumps from artwork to animation. This is a screenshot of a scene from Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders. What makes this unique is that the artstyle is supposed to be a recreation of the older Batman films that starred Adam West and Burt Ward (who reprised their roles for this movie).

This is a wallpaper based on the hit manga and anime, Death Note. It features two of the main characters; Light Yagami and L.

Death Note is one of the older series in the manga and anime industry. What makes it so unique, however, was the fact that it was one of the first mangas to have a Villain Protagonist. Light (on the left) is the main protagonist, but he has evil intentions. L (on the right), is actually a detective that’s firmly on the side of good. The contrast is shown, the black on the left, the white on the right.

This image is from the fighting game series Under Night In-Birth. I chose it due to my interest in the fighting game series.

The tenth self-portrait (though 11th artist) is of Bisco Hatori, mangaka of Ouran High School Host Club.

Like some of the early ones, it’s a self portrayal of themselves in the small break segments in their manga. There’s a bit of symbolism, as it’s a lot more simple in comparison to her normal art. Hatori is known to be lazy, so many consider the reason she did such a simple artstyle was due to how much quicker it would be.

This one is a double. We have Matt Groening (left), creator of The Simpsons and Futarama, while on the right we have Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad. 

This one is a more interesting case. Both of them are drawn in their respective cartoons artstyles (as Simpsons and Family Guy had a crossover), and trying to steal the others ideas in the picture (which is self-depreciation, as fans have noted similarities between their series).

The 8th Self-Portrait/Reprisentation is of Hiromu Arakawa, who’s most well known for being the artist for Fullmetal Alchemist. 

Interestingly, she (yes, she) portrays herself as a cow with glasses, and occasionally with beer.