Girl Power: Madoka Kinoshita's Super Kawaii Characters

Madoka Kinoshita is an illustrator from Japan who specializes in creating ultra-cute, ultra-feminine characters. Drawing inspiration from anime, video games, comic books, and kawaii culture, her characters all have enormous, sparkling eyes, exaggerated expressions, and unusually colored hair.

They smile demurely, pout, and preen within their canvases, some of them palm-sized, others larger than life. Despite the characters' innocent outward appearance, there is occasionally something more sinister hiding below the surface, betrayed by a mischievous glint in the eye or a seductive pose.

This often imbues Kinoshita's work with an interesting tension.

The use of bold lines and pastel colors like candy-floss pinks, mint greens, and aqua blues, give Kinoshita's work a sweet and playful aesthetic and demand viewers' attention.

Though her art appears relatively simple, her creative process is actually quite complex; layers of acrylic paint, epoxy, and masking tape are applied meticulously to achieve the clean lines and smooth texture of her finished pieces.

To see more of Kinoshita's work you can visit her website: http://www.ma-do.net/e/top.html
You can watch a video of Kinoshita at work on her piece "Springtime," here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GmVpgoX_Xw