Makiko Sugawa is a Japanese illustrator whose highly detailed line drawings are both playful and provocative. She has a way of effortlessly mixing the two qualities with an end result that makes you wonder how one ever could exist without the other.
Many of her images feature women with prosthetic or amputated limbs, this a reflection of the artist’s real life, as Makiko herself has a prosthetic leg. There is a striking contrast of beautiful women dressed in layers of lace and erotic lingerie with the sometimes robotic imagery of a mechanical leg.
The spur of the moment aspect found in her drawings, makes one feel as if we are stealing small glimpses of these ingenues’ romantic and fantastical lives.
All images copyright Makiko Sugawa. See more at her website: Ladie’s Time