Japanese Style Illustration with Photoshop

Japanese Style Illustration with Photoshop

From the Gez Fry Interview:

How do you draw? Do you need a lot of sketches or do you go straight to the computer?

I do pretty much everything in Photoshop.

Many people do, but I think that 99% of the Japanese illustrators still start on paper. If you have that ability to do a good drawing on paper, there is certainly a material satisfaction to it and it feels a lot nicer to have something solid. All I have is a paper print out – that is it. Doing everything in Photoshop has a lot of advantages, though and more and more people do the same.