about
Gaki Studio is a small illustration practice focused on the Japanese word gaki (ガキ), a bratty kid. Work is published as series, each series covering one register of the same subject.
Each piece starts as a written brief (subject, palette, posture, light). Drafts are generated using modern image models, then selected, cropped, color-graded, and captioned by hand.
AI-assisted work is labeled honestly. The practice is new.
English has brat, rascal, and urchin, but none sit where gaki sits: half-exasperated, half-fond, casual. Yoshitomo Nara has painted gaki for decades without using the word. Shinnosuke Nohara is a gaki. A kid poking their sibling at the dinner table is a gaki.
Commissions closed. Press via gaki.sh.