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dirtymaidpanties · 5 months

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The girls are at it again

But tryna practice pony poses since due to my poll from earlier its something you guys wanna see more from me, and don't worry I'll still make oc and persona art and all that just gonna try to make more mlp art- its fun to mess with the poses though, younger me must be so proud lol ^^

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elegieenbleu · 2 months

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KEIICHI OHTA /

Cover art for うわさの人類 by ヒカシュ 1981

#keiichi ohta #heta uma

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dailydefunctmangamagazine · 5 months

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Comic ARÈ! (COMICアレ!) / Magazine House (マガジンハウス) / Aug 1995 issue

#seinen manga #90s manga #alternative manga #la nouvelle manga #heta uma #magazine house #COMICアレ!#マガジンハウス #issue month: august

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loonelytuns · 4 months

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made by loonelytuns

#heta uma #art pop #cowboy bebop #the cure #the smiths #joy division #ms paint

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beyourselfchulanmaria · 1 month

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独慎 || ひとりでつつしむ

1人遊びが得意な守一さんひとりで静かにつつしむ。物事をおろそかにしない。身の振舞いに気をつける。

熊谷守一 (クマガイモリカズ / Morikazu Kumaya, 1880-1977）

人が見ていようが、見ていなかろうが、自分と向き合って静かに過ごす時間も必要ですね。

朗らかで、気の抜けた書体に精神を落ち着かせる何かがありますね。

守一さんの書は、私が20代から注目して拝見してますが、しみじみと良い字です。

─ 北岡技芳堂 with photo

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藝術家熊谷守一終生奉行「獨樂��法則 (About artist His story)

by 中國南方藝術作者：劉檸 /原文發表於2019年5月9日《北京晚報·五色土》

#熊谷守一 #クマガイモリカズ #morikazu kumaya #1880-1977 japanese #独慎 #慎獨 #ひとりでつつしむ #heta-uma

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nebulacritter · 4 months

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an ode to outsider art

I got into outsider art recently, and what is this art movement all about?

Outsider art is created by those who are either self-taught, have a lack of an art education, disabled, or all of the above. Outsider art doesn't have a distinct style; it usually looks rough, but each outsider artist has their own unique style. There's also outsider music, which is kind of the same thing, but in audio form.

This movement might relate to a Japanese movement called "heta-uma", which means "bad but good". Outsider art may look "bad" at first, but when you get to know it a bit more, you will see the jankiness in a wholeheartedly "good" way.

As an autistic artist, I look up to outsider artists because some of them are disabled like I am. I can identify with the whole "bad" art style thing, because my art style has its flaws, like the use of a fill tool for coloring everything. I know it doesn't fill in the tiniest gaps, but I'm still trying my best.

Overall, outsider art is strange, but beautiful in its own way, and it sparks inspiration and imagination into my mind.

#voila #outsider art #heta-uma #disability

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captainhowdie · 2 years

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From the short time that I know your webcomic I have had a little doubt, what were your inspirations for your drawing style and humor?

I like "gekiga"-style comics and "heta-uma" drawing styles concepts. GARO magazine was a serial magazine that contained many different people's styles in it.

#captain says #humour style is from reality

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famiconblogs · 7 months

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The Heta-Uma Appeal

Garo 1982 September Issue with cover art by Yumura Teruhiko

Heta-uma. 'Heta' as in 'bad', 'umai' as in 'good'. Not officially recognised as an art movement, the wave of manga/art/illustrations that kicked off in the 70s were seen as being "so bad it's good". There are a number of different ways to describe heta-uma, with terms like "unskilled" and "ugly" being used to categorise the rough look of the art. Check out this highly detailed and informative article from Sabukaru for more on its history!

If you're wondering who pioneered the craze and led the charge, look no further than three artists deemed to be the most influential and notable: Yumura Teruhiko, Ebisu Yoshikazu and Takashi Nemoto. Garo was a platform that allowed these artists to spread the name and fame of their crude and raw drawings, often featuring gritty and vulgar subject matter. Heta-uma is a style that rejects the norm and pushes outside the box for new ways of expression, going against standards to evoke new reactions in readers. It aims to leave you laughing, gagging in disgust and everything in between with its sheer variety of storytelling. You can find gag manga, comedic shorts and satire. You can find political and social commentary veiled underneath raw and seemingly shallow drawings. It's a style that I honestly took me awhile to get into, but my appreciation slowly began to accelerate as I dived into alternative manga, especially mangaka like Ebisu.

Ebisu Yoshikazu: First Exposure

My very first read from Ebisu was a book titled "I Wish I Was Stupid" (Watashi wa Baka ni Naritai), now being released in English by Breakdown Press, an extremely exciting occasion for alternative manga fans. As far as I know, there are few heta-uma mangaka with an official English book, one being Hanakuma Yuusaku with his "Tokyo Zombie" published by Last Gasp in 2008. Takashi Nemoto also had his "Monster Men: Bureiko Lullaby" published in English by Picture Box in 2008. At the moment, Ebisu's "The Pits of Hell" by Breakdown Press is also being reprinted, so I'd hope that demand is high enough for more heta-uma exposure to the English market. There are also alternative manga anthologies like "Ax (Vol 1): A Collection of Alternative Manga", "Sake Jock", and "Comics Underground Japan" that feature heta-uma mangaka and artists like Suzy Amakane and Carol Shimoda amongst others.

But back to Ebisu. I was again exposed to his works via a haul video by Shawn from Japan Book Hunter, and the cover of the manga was enough to get me interested. The book is raw, disgusting, incredibly vulgar and in-your-face with its crazy drawings on confronting subject matter. It blends dark humour with satire on Japanese society extremely well, all supported by rudimentary character designs of salarymen, housewives and naïve children. I loved the weirdly random and surreal settings that feature UFOs flying in the sky, coupled with the desolate backgrounds that emphasise the other-worldliness of Ebisu's work. Its content is extreme, and it left such a lasting impression on me that I had to explore further into the world of heta-uma. I picked up "The Pits of Hell" after that, and am definitely planning to get more Ebisu books in the future.

AX Magazine: A Bigger Picture

Assorted AX issues featuring heta-uma artists Takashi Nemoto, Goto Yuka, Shiriagari Kotobuki, Family Restaurant and Hori Michihiro

After discovering Ebisu, I had bought myself a whole stack of AX issues, opening up a whole new world of more contemporary heta-uma. This is where I became addicted to artists like Goto Yuka, Shiriagari Kotobuki and Family Restaurant, all centred on more a more comedic/gag style of manga. I still have a long way to go in terms of reading up on all the wonderful heta-uma out there, so I would say I'm still only on the first couple of steps in. One of my favourite heta-uma works that I'm still reading at the moment is Goto's "Justice Corps" (Seigitai), a gag manga following a group of vigilantes fighting to protect the city from monsters and villains. It's a pretty simple premise, but the slapstick humour combined with very rudimentary drawings gives off a nostalgic kids-show vibe. Addicting, straightforward and fun.

Justice Corps vol 1 by Goto Yuka

Shiriagari's "Jacaranda" is another amazing story that follows the violent and chaotic destruction of a city and its subsequent rebirth. The manga begins with a woman on a train brutally beating an old man for accidentally leaning on her shoulder as he struggles to stay awake. Nobody tries to do anything to help, a common critique of passivity in Japanese society that you can find in lots of other manga. Over the course of the story, the city is ravaged by a giant Jacaranda tree that sprouts and destroys the entire landscape, massacring the people around it as buildings topple and fires burn. The art is intense and the civilian deaths are brutally depicted through most of the book. Though, the end result is that of a blooming Jacaranda tree that towers over the city, hailed and prayed to by the survivors. There is little dialogue with most of the sound dominated by screams and onomatopoeia, but Shiriagari's raw and rough art style very much lends to a violent story like this. You can interpret the narrative in many ways, with one observing the first event of the woman's violence on the train as a karmic catalyst to the Jacaranda sprouting. This book is a good example of how the heta-uma style can also lean towards quite sincere and more serious works, a great display of versatility.

Jacaranda by Shiragari Kotobuki

Although, I must say that not every heta-uma work I've read is a favourite for me. "Jacaranda" is, in my opinion, an amazingly raw and hard-hitting work, but Shiragari's "Twin Adults" (Futago no Oyaji) series is very much a hit or miss. You can find individual chapters throughout many of AX's early issues, and there are also tankobons that collect all the stories into one book. The series features two twins arguing and playing, both up to whatever antics they may be up to, but not many of them land for me personally. On a different topic, Takashi Nemoto's subject matter is also a bit too raunchy for my tastes. I appreciate his art style as a whole and actually really love some of art that don't feature extremely explicit imagery, but the usual abundance of the dirty stuff isn't for me.

Left: Takashi Nemoto page from Garo 1983 April / Right: "Futago no Oyaji" from AX vol 8

The King Terry Obsession: Present Time

Various 1983 Garo issues featuring cover art by Yumura Teruhiko

Yumura Teruhiko. King Terry. Terry Johnson. Flamingo Terry. My current artist obsession. The artist is a man of many names. King Terry is attributed as the founder and pioneer of the heta-uma movement from the 70s and onwards with his "artfully artless" illustrations, a quote from Ryan Holmberg which I find is an extremely fitting description. You can find his article below!

King Terry mainly drew illustrations and has only put out one manga in his career, "Penguin Rice", where he drew the art for a story written by Itoi Shigesato for Garo in 1976. I haven't found a copy of it yet, but my eyes are always on the lookout for it. But for now, I'm satisfied with the various Garo issues he'd illustrated covers for, all of them addicting to look at. Yumura had illustrated all the covers for Garo's 1977 issues, reappearing and staying as the physical face of the magazine from 1982-87. He's an artist that has grown on me over time, and I can't give a clear reason why, but it's very much tied in with my love for alternative manga.

And that's pretty much my experience with the wonderful world of heta-uma. To conclude, I want to have one last section about an event that I feel was an extremely important one for heta-uma and alternative manga fans outside of Japan.

Heta-Uma Mangaro: Le Dernier Cri Exhibition

Le Dernier Cri, a French publishing house headed by Pakito Bolino, is your one-stop destination for underground and alternative art that thrives outside of the mainstream. They sell high quality silkscreen prints, books and posters from many Japanese artists and mangaka, many of whom I've talked about before. In 2014, Bolino and Taco Che owner Ayumi Nakayama curated an extensive collection of works from Japanese artists in the double exhibition "Heta-uma Mangaro", a gallery of 40 years of Garo and heta-uma history. There was a catalogue book released for the event that is long OOP, but I'm still patiently waiting for one to pop up sometime soon. But having such a large event specifically for alternative manga and heta-uma is an amazing feat that I hope will inspire bigger and more frequent exhibitions like these. Thanks for reading!

#manga #hetauma #alternativemanga #manga recommendation #art review #manga art #manga panel #japanese culture #japanese history #contemporaryart

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pgarfa2024hatle · 2 months

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Dessins que j'ai oublié de mettre

BD production personelle dans le style Heta Uma

Février - Juillet 2023

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dirtymaidpanties · 4 months

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MORE NICOLE AND EMILY FANART (I'm coping)

I'm still so sad emily died in the overdose ending bro like THEY COULD'VE MADE OUT- im hoping this isn't the only ending we befriend emily dude if it is I'ma actually cry i love her sm

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coldfarteditch · 5 months

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Talking about heta uma reminded me of mr ando of the woods and now we're watching all of takeshi taniguchi's shorts

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loonelytuns · 4 months

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#m'c donalds #art pop #heta uma #colorful #pastel colors

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yappacadaver · 2 years

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really into the heta/uma art movement and one artist i really like followed me back on IG and it feels epic

#i did a presentation on the movement in school #i just think it's neat

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please-click-on-robot-captcha · 2 years

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1. Omni system, Kappa X, Han Gao

The Brand Identity https://the-brandidentity.com/uploads/cache/articles/2021/08/workbyworks-pragmatic-identity-for-kappa-x-utilises-repetition-to-signify-collaborative-growth/23870/Kappa-Workbyworks-5-bc9e4.webp Binary https://sites.google.com/site/syhsguzmancsp/_/rsrc/1467889490506/creative-projects/binary-numbers/BINARY%20NUMBERS.png

When we first started learning about design systems, this was a job that helped me understand how they worked.

2. Diving Graphic, Yui Takada

Personal Website https://takadayui.com/Diving-Graphic Vice feature(Japanese language) https://takadayui.com/VICE-1 IDEA magazine No.384, Yui Takada: Figure and Attitude http://www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_magazine/384/

One of my favourite posters designed by Takada. Designed for his first solo exhibition in Japan.

Garo No.270,1987, Teruhiko Yumara https://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/82jxio/teruhiko_yumura_excellent_comics_no_270_cover_1987/ Heta-Uma & Mangaro: 40 Years of Wild Japanese Graphics http://paulgravett.com/articles/article/heta_uma_mangaro

I think all of these Japanese graphics that I'm interested in have drawn some influence from the heta-uma movement.

3. Uncommon Common, Yui Takada

Personal Website https://takadayui.com/Alibaba

Designed for Alibaba headquarters. Always had some interest in stars as graphics.

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nebulacritter · 1 year

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here's my opinion on my art.

even though it looks like i don't put much effort in it sometimes, it still looks kinda nice. i'm too lazy to color in everything with a brush, so that's why i use the paint tool. i like how every character i design looks unique; no two characters look the same, unless they're meant to be twins. finally, i was inspired by this japanese art movement called "heta-uma" which means it's kinda sucky, but also appealing to look at, which describes my art really well. i kinda like the whole vibe of my artworks, because it's messy, but the vibrant colors and the cute characters give me a sense of childlike wonder when i look at them.

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aparisa-illus · 3 years

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“ Heta-Uma ”

Japanese drawing style.

Japanese drawing style ~ meaning “Bad but good”.

A work which looks poorly drawn, but with an aesthetically conscious quality.

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