Birth by Kazuma Kaneko
About: When starting his illustrations he will start on paper, then eventually scanning his work onto his computer.
The first subject of the drawing Kaneko made was Demi-Fiend as he was the main focus of the piece. He will often draw the “essential” or main focus of the piece first. After that he begins drawing the demons, ignoring what sticks out.
Due to the limitations of his computer at the time he would split the image into four parts as the image can take up to 100-200 MB of RAM, keeping in mind that at this time computer RAM was just now hitting a gigabyte in size allowing Painter to run smoother. Since Kaneko doesn’t have to meet many deadlines for several pieces of work he will often take his time and add many details to his art.
The tools Kaneko used for the works is as follows:
Software: Painter 6, Photoshop 6.1
Hardware: PowerMacintosh, G4/450 Dual, memory 1024MB (equivalent to 1GB)
Tablet: WACOM intuos2 i-620
(Source: Interview scan and translation by dijehtranslations.)
Mod thoughts:
I... REALLY love this artwork, it’s one of my favorite pieces created by Kaneko, specifically the limbs as odd as it sounds. The way he tends to draw characters, around the time of Nocturne and Persona 2 duology look like a porcelain dolls. His digital work is gorgeous and I love it, I can’t get over it! — Luna
(Artwork Scan taken from Larrue’s Kaneko Artwork Folder, the High Quality version can be found here.) UPDATE 6/19/2023:
So... Larrue’s Megaten Archive is gone. I tried to find why but there was nothing but he mentioned that someone uploaded his stuff to the Internet Archive. I am too dumb to find it. Luckily I have saved his Kazuma Kaneko art folder! So now you can get the image here.