Nishimata Aoi on her illustrations
Half Moon Diary posted up a review of Nishimata Aoi desu. (amazon), which is an essay book released on the 30th of Jan. It’s basically Nishimata’s personal autobiography, with 29 pages of illustrations and slightly lesser pages with photos in the 132 page essay book.
In the review, there were some interesting quotes from the book from the parts where Nishimata talks about her art.
There are probably a lot Illustrators that will go through the full process of starting from roughs before drawing a character, my direction is a little different from these people, what I try to do is try to make everything look good on the whole.
Basically I’m not pursuing strong artistic skills, but rather I’m going for art that looks cute with an appearance that looks fancy and balanced on the whole.
My concept is to draw art that can be easily understood with just a quick look.
My art appears to be mainly popular with the younger generation, people that are not too much into anime yet, or people who don’t know much about the industry yet.
That is probably why there is a tendency where fans look at my art first and begin to like the world of illustrations, and then they start to look at the art from other illustrators and start thinking “Hey this guy’s art is much better”, and end up becoming a fan of another illustrator instead.
She actually analysed herself pretty well!
Also according to the review, she talks about her doujin and cosplaying stuff too, but she doesn’t get too much into detail with those subjects in the book.
