InterviewFeatured Artist

In June 2017, he won the award for his first overseas exhibition at the JARDIN exhibition held in New York. I won the award for the cherry blossoms blooming in the garden and the oil landscape painting of Mt. Tanigawa in the background. The most impressive thing is that many people came to the venue at other overseas exhibitions and were able to convey their works in their own words.

The painting class has been in operation for 10 years, but I also have good memories, such as the nervousness when I joined the first student and the fact that I displayed many student works in the nearby exhibition facilities and art galleries in Yokohama at the classroom exhibition. To be honest, I was frustrated that I received complaints that the students came home crying and that they could not improve. We are trying to improve every day so as not to make students feel uncomfortable in the future.

F100 oil painting, Symphony with the air. This is a work of oil painting of an art model playing the piano. Although it is a solo piano performance, I depicted the sound of the space through the collaboration of costumes, backgrounds, and indoor scenery.

In depicting a girl, this work expresses the subject's view of life by combining backgrounds and combining costumes and postures. I wanted to draw a piano with a girl in my atelier, so I installed a piano. On the other hand, there are works that are purely dedicated to expressing the cuteness and beauty of girls, especially in watercolor.

In the past, most of the paintings were oil, but now I mainly work in oil, transparent watercolor, and digital. Transparent watercolor is the most common ratio these days. It is natural to draw people, landscapes, and still lifes by exhibitor and seller, but the strong desire to draw girls remains unchanged.

In recent years, we have exhibited not only in existing galleries and public exhibitions, but also at doujinshi exhibitions and sales events at roadside stations. In addition to the existing exhibition announcements, I wanted to convey the wonderfulness of girls' drawings, especially to young people, so I exhibited them at doujinshi exhibitions and sales, and in principle, I have created comics even though they are framed paintings. Roadside stations mainly sell landscape paintings. There are times when girls' drawings are surprisingly sold at roadside stations.

Exhibitions and sales in the doujin industry and roadside stations can also promote artists and classrooms to people who are not interested in paintings that are usually seen in galleries and museums. In addition, there is also a plan to increase the number of people who are interested in paintings by providing works at a low price in line with office paper standards, not painting standards such as F No. F, which is expensive for frames. The work that takes time to create will be a full-fledged frame according to the painting standard and will be worth the expensive price. We have set prices according to the requirements of customers who buy the work.

The paintings of people and girls are mainly real (art models) and primary creations, but there are also times when secondary creations are drawn. In my experience, the pictures of seasonal popular anime sold well at the exhibition and sale event. I only draw works that I want to see and draw (love the original).

Although it was mostly a business specializing in oil painting, it has been four years since I started teaching digital paintings and creating works due to concerns about the decline in the oil painting population and the decline in the painting population. Even if you print a digital painting, if you frame it and put it side by side with oil and watercolor, you will feel a sense of security that makes you think that the picture is a painting. Currently, we can see the sale and distribution of works through the delivery of e-books and data, but in a situation where many doujinshi exhibitions and sales are held for digital paintings, I feel that there is a lot of demand to get not only digital data but also physical products.

Before I started working on digital painting, I was worried about whether I would be able to handle it because it was completely different from existing analog paintings, and I had only drawn analog paintings such as oil paintings for many years, but as long as I learned the functions of digital devices, the basics of painting are the same, so I can easily create my work. In the future, I would like to further pursue expressions that can only be done digitally. Even digitally, the expression of color and space remains the top priority. Useful functions such as color correction with digital tools and layering color filters also have the advantage of being able to adjust color and space more easily than analog paintings. Taking advantage of this advantage, we also simulate color and space in analog paintings.

Currently, I feel that it is okay if you sell well, or if you have a lot of followers and likes. Even in the doujin industry, where there are many young people, and public exhibitions where there are relatively many middle-aged and elderly people, technology is not everything, such as selling at an instant sale or reducing the quality of the work if you are promoted to a member, and there is also a trend that it is useless if you do not have sales and communication skills, but it seems that the technical ability of the work production is everything. The concept of the Tsukiyono Art Institute is a painting class that enjoys being beautiful and cute, but the production technique is the most important. We are working on technology development every day, including faculty, staff, and students.

I hope to continue to pursue the beauty of girls' skin, hair, and outfits.