To provide an image forming method, by which the life of an electrifying member and a photosensitive layer is prolonged and stable image quality is attained, and an image forming apparatus.

In the image forming method of forming an image by impressing voltage to a non-contact electrifying member arranged on the photosensitive layer to uniformly electrify and irradiating the photosensitive layer with a digital-converted original image, the image is formed by supplying electric charge from the non-contact electrifying member on a photoreceptor having a coating layer formed by dispersing inorganic fine particles on the surface of the outermost layer of the photosensitive layer, and the image forming apparatus is constituted so as to perform the image formation.