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gingersoll
Truly, Urushihara had a stronger flavor of style in his early days. His cel painting and airbrushing skills were amazing in not only their techinical precision, but also their uniqueness--they are undoubtledly his (unlike many artists who draw the layout for an image and then give it to someone else to paint). His line quality was also very striking, with bold variation in thinkness and texture without disrupting the consistantcy of the image. However, I think his work has decreased in quality enormously in recently years. He has become more and more fixated on a small handful of fetishes which are repeating themself into a boredom matched only by his pumping out of character-less pin up girl pages month after month. His transition to CG shows skill, but I believe maybe having unlimited layers (the dreamof anyone who has worked with cells) has made him loose focus on the quality of the original drawing, or sometimes obscuring the strengths of the original sketch with layers and layers of shading. Anyway, now that he seems to be over his super shiny girl stage, I hope he can begin to develop into some new directions... A critical, but hopeful fan.
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