Kentaro Miura

Did you know one artist spent decades drawing tiny lines to build a huge, stormy world? Kentaro Miura (1966–2021) was a Japanese manga artist from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He is most famous for creating Berserk, a dark fantasy comic series. Today we’ll focus on how Miura’s drawings and stories changed fantasy art.

Berserk tells big, serious adventures with brave heroes and scary monsters. What made it special was Miura’s art — pages filled with incredibly detailed linework that made landscapes, armor, and faces look real. He mixed powerful action, friendship, and deep feelings so the story felt emotional and grown-up. Artists and game makers admired his style; creators of games like Dark Souls have said Miura’s work inspired them. Berserk also became anime, movies, and games, helping his ideas reach the world.

Miura began drawing when he was very young, and he published Berserk in the late 1980s. His pages use hatching and cross-hatching — thousands of tiny lines — to create deep shadows and texture. If you like to draw, his work shows that patience and careful practice can make pictures feel alive and full of mood.

Miura kept improving Berserk for decades and helped shape how many people imagine dark fantasy. When he died in 2021 the series was unfinished, but his fans and fellow artists still celebrate his art. Kentaro Miura shows how bold imagination, careful drawing, and hard work can build whole new worlds that inspire millions.