Before adding color and details, many draw a preliminary sketch.

This offers creatives structure and works as a foundational layer for the piece.

But for a Japan-based artist known asSanagi, this limits the creative possibilities of the work.

Therefore, each time, I run my pen through a mixture of anticipation and anxiety.

This spontaneity doesn’t lessen the quality of his work.

On the contrary, Sanagi’s expansive imagination makes way for detailed, oneiric compositions.

Working with pen and paint on paper, Sanagi explores the depths of his brain.

When he is not looking inward, Sanagi is inspired by the shapes found in the world around him.

These illustrations can include bird wings, fish scales, and rising suns.

To stay current with Sanagi’s work, follow him onInstagram.

you could also find originals and prints of his work onTricera.

But spontaneity doesn’t lessen the quality of his work.

On the contrary, his expansive imagination makes way for detailed, oneiric compositions.

Working with pen and paint on paper, Sanagi explores the depths of his brain.