Adonna Khare and Emi Nakajima

Adonna Khare






Adonna Khare is an American artist from Burbank California. She mainly focuses on charcoal drawings that range from small scale to large scale. Her work has been collected by prestigious art collectors around the world and has been featured in magazine's such as L.A. times, the Huffington Post, My Modern Metropolis and more. She received her masters in Fine Art from California State University. She specializes in melding realism and fantasy together. She says she "draws like one might sculpt." She starts her characters off by drawing an almost skeletal like structure and shapes and molds them from there. A lot of her work deals with "the absurdities in life." She says "juxtaposing predator and prey conveys a change of context, it brings the viewer in to really think about their understanding of not only the animals but of those that are around them." She also says "the elephant pieces have to do with the weight we carry around in our lives. I consider all beast of burden, symbolizing the human condition." Khare almost gave up her art practice due to her being a full time mom and teacher but a friend had convinced her to enter her drawing Elephants into a national competition where she rapidly gained recognition. 





Emi Nakajima







Emi Nakajimi is a Thailand based Japanese artist. She is an up and coming artist who is gaining internet fandom. she creates highly detailed ink drawings are of famous buildings around the world. For fans of architecture her art work is right up your ally. Judging from her work available on pintrest, instagram and facebook, she seems to favor drawing churches and gothic architecture. The scale of her work ranges from the size of your hand to the size of a drawing table. There is not much information available on Ms. Nakajimi as she has not been published in any major art magazines or has any work in museums. Her work as an "unknown" artist is inspiring because so many of artists out there, myself included, are struggling with the harsh reality of how hard it actually is to become recognized for our talents. Having done highly detailed ink drawings myself I have to say her work is incredible. There is no information as to how long her drawings take but judging from my own experience and taking into account the size, scale, and detail of her drawings I'd say each one took 60+ hours to create. The toll that drawing takes on your body after several hours of sitting hunched over in a chair is painful. The fact that she remained dedicated to finishing and perfecting to the best of her ability several large scale drawings speaks worlds about her character as an artist. She is drawing for the love of drawing.


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