Illustration We Love: Mogu Takahashi
Hello and welcome to a blog post about Japanese artist/illustrator Mogu Takahashi.
Mogu Takahashi creates artwork that brings a smile to our faces and warms our hearts. She seems to be one of those people who can’t stop drawing and making things, as you can tell by the sheer variety of work on display on her website. Mogu was born in 1984 and lives and works in Tokyo.
She has a paintings, illustrations, drawings, ceramics, stuffed animals, “cut and scrap” and a “something fun” section in the gallery part of her website. We love her sense of fun and playfulness as well as the bold use of colour everywhere in her work. You can see all of her daily doodles on her instagram feed.
Best of all are her “daily doodles” sketchbooks which she has filmed as she flicks through them, accompanied by nice music. The pages are really colourful and chock-full of wonderful drawings and paintings. This is our favourite one: