This 25 year old started drawing in 1999 and had a solo show in 2004 at Kyoto Neutron. By using simple lines, he draws people and cityscapes with lively atmosphere.

Morning Glories

Old Tree

Tottenham Hall Station

Smoke

Passion Fruit

Kobayashi Arcade

Eat

Kinbzenjis

In Profile

More of Kosuke Ikeda's work can be seen on his portfolio website at www15.ocn.ne.jp/~worksbox/, and if you can read Japanese, he's got a blog here worksbox.mo-blog.jp/blobox/ - (even if you can't read Japanese, there are some neat pictures to see.)

Kosuke's work can be seen alongside miQ willmOtt, THUY3, Kenichi Hoshine, Martin Ontiveros, James Jean, Josh Cochran, GUYBURWELL, Kozyndan, Mr. H, Mio Matsumoto, Zanpon, Ben Tour, Jennifer Poon, Andrea Wicklund, Tyler Stout, and Natalia Fabia in the Black & White show at Compound Gallery in Portland, Oregon through June 30th, 2006.

Photos from the opening of Black & White are up on Compound's website: www.justbedesign.com.