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Yuko Shimizu

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YUKO SHIMIZU （日本名：清水裕子） is a freelance illustrator based in New York City and an illustration instructor at School of Visual Arts. Newsweek Japan has chosen her as one of "100 Japanese People The World Respects" in 2009.

Drawing had been Yuko's hobby ever since she could remember. However, growing up in a traditional Japanese family, pursuing a path in art was just not an option. After receiving BA in advertising and marketing – the most creative of the practical field – from Waseda University she landed on a position in PR for a big corporation in Tokyo.
It never made her quite happy, and she was in a mid-life crisis at age of 22.

It still took Yuko more than 10 years of office job before she figured out what she really wanted to do and to sa ...more

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Yuko Shimizu's Blog

Whether you make it or not is never about talent. message to the aspiring artists

“Can you tell who’s going to make it in your class?” I sometimes get this big question. And my answer is YES, I CAN. Their eyes open up twice as big. But wait! I need to explain a bit more.

Recently in my class, a students, who is very talented, but lacking a bit of focus, and hasn't been creating work up to his talent, said “I always wanted to be a concept artist, but not anymore”. I asked why. Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.86 · 49,752 ratings · 5,014 reviews · 108 distinct works

	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Yuko Shimizu (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 6,041,940 ratings — published 1925 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1) by Sōsuke Natsukawa, Louise Heal Kawai (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Kevin Shen (Narrator) 3.71 avg rating — 90,508 ratings — published 2017 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silence by Shūsaku Endō, William Johnston (Translation), Martin Scorsese (Foreword) 4.10 avg rating — 40,546 ratings — published 1966 — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Bill Willingham (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Peter Gross (Writer, Artist) 3.74 avg rating — 20,226 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unwritten, Vol. 4: Leviathan by Mike Carey (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Peter Gross (Writer, Artist), Vince Locke (Finishes) 4.01 avg rating — 4,939 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author), Yuko Shimizu (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 5,365 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unwritten, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words by Mike Carey (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Peter Gross (illustrator), Yuko Shimizu (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.05 avg rating — 4,058 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El ascenso a lo divino by Neon Yang, Carla Bataller Estruch (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Yuko Shimizu (Goodreads Author) (Cover Art) 3.97 avg rating — 2,779 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yuko Shimizu 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living With: Yuko Shimizu 4.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If getting old is about appreciating more in life, then getting old doesn't sound too bad.”
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“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
― Junot Díaz

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“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

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“It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: life

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“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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