tanaka is a multi-disciplinary creative based & raised in the Bay Area, CA. currently spending their time tattooing, hosting workshops, painting, coding, sewing, & gardening.
tanaka is a multi-disciplinary creative based & raised in the Bay Area, CA. currently spending their time tattooing, hosting workshops, painting, coding, sewing, & gardening.
Stationary & Print Shop
lounging series prints
Series of illustrations from a life drawing session done in 2022 with 2bornot2b, redrawn and formatted for prints. Will later do a run of glicee prints, put happy with leaving it where it is now
shop the prints here
tokyo turnip
shop the gumroad
embroidery & fiber adventures
Recently I have been embroidering with more dedication, incorporating them into jewelry in place of jewels (i.e. rivoli settings and earrings)
life drawing session highlights
Sessions started in the pandemic, ranging from guoache, marker, ink, and ipad
femme flowers
An exploration of flowers and the feminine form. Ranging from themes of objectification and growth, early iterations involved plucking and violence, now they tend to strive towards the sun and celebration of the body
life painting
Oil paintings done at SFSU over studio classes.
anthropomorphised food
Concepting smiling strawberries, dumplings, onigiri, etc