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Jave Yoshimoto… How can we use his influence to create our own artwork?

Miss Vega

disaster scene with woman carrying injured child

This term we have been looking at the work of Yoshimoto. He is a graphic artist of Japanese heritage that uses his artwork to depict the tragedies that occur across the world. We have analysed and unpicked the symbolism within his work and adapted his approach to develop our own collaborative pieces linking to our Geography unit: Natural Disasters. This week, we began to grid up; we analysed the composition of his paintings and used pictures of real survivors to create our own art.

Could you tell us (in the comments) what graphic art is, why gridding up is a useful skill in art and one fact that you have learnt about Yoshimoto?

Take a look at what we got up to!

19 responses to “Jave Yoshimoto… How can we use his influence to create our own artwork?”

  1. Xavier M.

    Graphic art typically is two-dimensional and includes calligraphy, photography, drawing, painting. Grid art is useful as it shows you the proportions and exact location of sketching.

  2. Aayan M.

    Graphic art is drawing, which includes cartoons, caricatures comic strips and animation.

  3. Mohammad A.

    Graphic art is the use of dimensional art.

  4. Umar H.

    Graphic art is the use of three dimensional art and uses an affect of portrait ing a certain occurance

  5. Harroop S.

    Graphic art is a type of art that uses line drawings to make a realistic effect. Graphic art is also a way to communicate and express your feelings within the picture.
    Gridding is really useful because if you want to find the exact position of a picture you can grid the paper to make sure to have the exact measurements.

    1. Harroop S.

      A fact I have learnt about Yoshimoto is that he includes Godzilla in every artwork.

  6. Arina A.

    Graphic art is a traditional category of fine arts / two – dimensional arts. Which includes any form of visual artistic expression (such as, drawing, painting, photography, calligraphy and printmaking). It is also designed on a flat surface.

  7. Umaiza T.

    What is graphic art?
    Graphic art is the visual arts used with line and tone, it is the opposite o using 3D work and colours. It is like black and white comics as some comics are colourful. It is made with pencils, ink, charcoal and pens!

    Grids are a useful skill in art because it helps us find the exact position if where a certain part of an image!

    Jave Yoshimoto is a graphic artist who had graduated on the exact day of the Nuclear disaster that happened in Japan 2011. He had Chinese parents and in schools in Japan, he was known as the “Chinese kid” and in China, he was known as the “Japanese kid.”

  8. Adeena K.

    Graphic art is a traditional category in which comes in any form of art expression e.g painting, drawing, cartoon, animation, sketching and photography.It is an art piece on flat surface(2 dimensional).
    Grinding is increasing the size of the image but keeping the proportion accurate.
    Have Yoshimoto was known for his graphic art for he created graphic arts based on natural disasters but drew in a metaphorically way.

  9. Ilyas I.

    Graphic art is a style of 2 dimensional art. Gridding is a technique used to enlarge an image while keeping it proportionally accurate. I have learnt that Jave Yoshimoto is known for his graphic art showcasing natural and human disasters.

  10. Iqra

    Graphic art is drawing, painting and photography produced on flat surfaces.

    Gridding is important because it helps to organise the elements of the design.

    Jave Yoshimoto was born in Japan and in Japan they called him the ‘Chinese kids’. When he went to China they called him ‘Japanese kid’. Also Jave Yoshimoto always draws Godzilla on his art pieces so you can tell if it is original or not.

  11. Bolu

    Graphic art is 2D and amimation .
    He used grid art because it is helpful to draw.

  12. Ridwan U.

    Graphic art is a category based on art. Most graphic art is always 2D. E.g Comic books.
    Have Yoshimoto was a born in Japan but from China.

  13. Muhammed A.

    Graphic art :
    Visual art based on line and tone rather than 3d work. As well as this it is also art where produced on a flat surface.

    Gridding is important to proportion your drawing on your paper; you use gridding to enlarge or make images smaller.

  14. Yalda N.

    What is graphic art?
    Graphic art is the category of fine arts based on any visual expression.
    Why is gridding important in graphic arts?
    Gridding is important to graphic arts because it helps organise the elements of the design.
    One fact about Jave Yoshimoto:
    One fact about Jave Yoshimoto is that his signature is Godzilla as he compared himself to him.

  15. Safya S.

    what graphic art is
    graphic art, traditional category of fine arts, including any form of visual artistic expression (e.g., painting, drawing, photography, printmaking), usually produced on flat surfaces.
    why gridding up is a useful skill in art
    gridding up in art can be very useful as it can help where to what in the correct place and proportions
    and one fact that you have learnt about Yoshimoto?
    he loves the Godzilla so if you see a painting with Godzilla in it it could possibly be his

  16. Aamina B.

    Graphic art is a traditional category of fine arts which includes any form of artistic expression. e.g photography,drawing,painting etc.Futhermore,the main purpose of graphic art is to visually communicate.Many people use graphic art to express their creativity too!
    Gridding up a picture into smaller blocks can help you see easily what part belongs where.It also divides the original image to see the proportion of the image.
    A fact that I have learnt Jave Yoshimoto is that he began to become a graphic artist because he wanted to spread the message of natural disasters that happpen and spread the word. this is why he chose graphic art because it is used to communicate.

  17. Aisha B.

    Gridding up is important because when you are drawing you can tell where your image goes and each line and shape.You can tell in more detail where every little thing is.
    A fact I have learnt about Yoshimoto is thqat he is Japanese and born to a Chinese family.

  18. Marwa H.

    Graphic art is drawing, which includes cartoons, caricatures, comic strips, and animation, as well as line drawings and sketching with pencil or charcoal, pen, ink, and etching.
    Grid art is useful as it shows you the proportions and exact location of drawings, I have learned that Yoshimoto’s parents were from China but was born in Japan, and whilst he was there he was called ‘The Chinese kid’ but when he went to China he was named ‘Japanese kid’.

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