生物イラスト / Biological Illustrations

この2つの作品は対象の生物を正確に描くということを心がけて制作しました。

図鑑の絵が描きたい、と子供の頃に思ってから数十年。この1年位の間に、その図鑑の絵とはどういうものなのかを勉強しなおす機会を得ました。正確に描いているつもりでも、どこかで手癖が画面の中に入ってしまったり、思い込みで描いていることが多々あることに気づく事になりました。

きのこはイボテングタケという種類の幼菌、つまりまだ生えたてのものです。もっと大きくなると傘の部分が濃い褐色になりますが、若いのでまだ全体に薄い色でみずみずしい感じです。自宅近くに発生していたうちのひとつを透明水彩などを用いて描きました。 鉛筆デッサンの方はシジュウカラの正面、側面、飛んでいる姿をそれぞれ描いています。グレーの紙に描き、白色の部分はダーマトグラフを使用しています。 イボテングタケの水彩画は、Guild of Nature Science Illustratorsのウェブ展覧会に出展しました。

まだまだな部分もあるので、さらに精進しつつ、今後はいろいろな方に親しみやすい表現方法も同時に模索していきたいと思っています。

These two works were created with the aim of accurately depicting the target organisms.

It has been several decades since I first thought as a child that I wanted to draw pictures for illustrated books. In the past year or so, I have had the opportunity to relearn what it means to draw pictures for picture books. I realized that even when I thought I was drawing accurately, somewhere along the way my hand habits got into the picture and I often drew things based on my own assumptions.

The mushrooms are juveniles of a species called Amanita ibotengutake, which means they are just beginning to grow. When they get bigger, the pileus turns dark brown, but because they are young, the whole area is still light and fresh. I painted one of the outbreaks near my home using transparent watercolor and other materials. The pencil sketches show the front, the side and the flight of the Japanese tit. They were drawn on gray paper and the white areas were done with dermatograph. The watercolor of the tit was exhibited in the web exhibition of the Guild of Nature Science Illustrators.

There are still parts of my work that are in the process of being completed, so I would like to further develop my skills while exploring methods of expression that are friendly to a variety of people in the future.