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IMAI ATSUSHI

                                Lives and works in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
                                www.katanashimugyou.art









            1973 Birth of Ina City, Nagano Prefecture. Lives and   the main content to draw character design or fantasy
            resides in Himeji city from 1975. Illustration, color   illustration based on collaboration with Japanese
            pencil artist activity with pen name of TWO. AI's from   animation and photographs. I am also working on

            1989 to 1995. In 2014 I resumed illustrator as an idol   digital production using Gimp from analogs such as
            specialist Katanashi Mugyou after about 20 years.    colored pencils and aqueous magic. In addition to
            In the same year remix CD jacket illustration charge   painting women, when drawing buildings, plants, or
            for social media idol • notall. Resumed as a colored   animals, I will first fill in the details after capturing

            pencil artist in 2015. An exhibition debut at the British   the shape as an illustration. Sometimes I change
            pencil museum (group exhibition). Currently joining   pastel, watercolors, acrylic and painting materials.
            Japan, UK, Australia and Canada related societies.   That is related to having decided Katanashi Mugyou
            From 2017 we have also started exhibiting at the art   as artist name in 2014.

            fair. I am based on the concept of women's spirituality
            and cutenes s both on illus trations drawn on a      "Let me like my picture!"
            personal computer and drawings drawn on paper. The   Even though I use all the painting materials in order
            style combines illustration and abstract expression   to realize the thought contained in this catchphrase,

            with influence which originally drawn manga. When    it means that it means that I can express with my way
            drawing with colored pencils or graphite pencils, we   of use that is not anyone's usage from the past to the
            combine various techniques, mainly vertical strokes   present age. I think that as long as there are people
            that draw vertical lines or parallel strokes that only   who will see me even if only one person looks at my
          ARTIST  draw horizontal lines. When drawing illustrations, it is   picture, I will continue to draw a picture.







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