Yuko Ota
Lion Queen
Pencils and Photoshop
821 x 900 px (pixel)
2013
Yuko Ota is a cartoonist who specialized in digital format comics, though she has printed a few things. She is based in New York and lives with several of her friends and two cats in a shared apartment. She has recently been involved in several collaborative projects for the arts and how to bring and expose people to new art as well as properly supporting artists.
"Meticulously cleaned up and colored a thing I drew at a coffee shop today."
Ota has always been an artist interested in illustrating fantastical things as well as using line to lead the eye on a journey through waves and curves. Pulling inspiration from old stories as well as different cultures is a thing Ota does a lot. This particular piece plays into many things Ota is keen on. Such as cats, as well as transformations.
This piece connects to the theme of wild cats because the lion is one of the most majestic and wild cats out there in nature. Despite the fact that this painting is anything but wild outwardly, it does not mean it couldn't be wild within. Clearly something had to happen for that lion to be cloaked upon the woman as such. But there is a beauty in all of this, besides the obvious flowers. It is in the quiet peace of the woman wearing the lion, possibly ready to strike out and kill whoever comes by. And it is in the nature of the lion, draped down, the mane like flames licking down. I chose this particular piece because the colours and the line struck me with awe. I thought it fitting to put with all these cats.
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