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We have found Ashiya on Instagram due to her Hungry series. From ice cream and sandwiches to ramen she has them all! Check out her answers to our questions:<\/p>\n

Ashiya<\/span>: Hi! I\u2019m Ashiya Kisa, I work as a freelance designer and illustrator, mostly in watercolors, but sometimes in digital too. I draw since I can remember myself, spending every free second on it.<\/p>\n

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Subsign: What was your childhood like? Do you think your experiences from childhood have influenced your present creative endeavors?<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashiya<\/span>: My childhood was kind of hard because of the economic situation in our country at that time and my father who left us with my mom. We barely had any money or stuff to eat and it really affects my collecting behavior now. That\u2019s why I\u2019m trying to have a big reserve of paints and paper for like 10 years in case I will be left out without money again \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

I started to draw when I was like 8-9 y.o. after watching Sailor Moon series on TV, we, me and my friend, started to create our characters what could exist in that universe and I drew a lot in anime style after it.<\/p>\n

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Subsign: What did you want to be as a grown up?<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashiya<\/span>: I clearly remember that I said in my graduation video that I want to be a comic artist! But I didn\u2019t have any patience for a big long continuous thing like a comic so it took me about 10 years to train myself to do this stuff! And I\u2019m finally ready to launch my webtoon which I was preparing for almost three years! I\u2019m super excited as well as super nervous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: How does your workstation look like?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: Do you have a work style? How would you describe it?<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashiya<\/span>: Do you mean an art style or the style of working? If first, it\u2019s kind of semi-realism, I don\u2019t like to do things completely realistic but I also don\u2019t like a complete cartoonish style. I really like background style of Studio Ghibli works and an anime called Tekkon Kinkreet, so I tend to direct my background style this way. <\/span><\/p>\n

If it\u2019s about my work style then it\u2019s like\u2026 \u201cdraw until you faint\u201d style, I barely have any barrier in terms of having proper rest or working time, which bothers me quite a lot and I\u2019m trying to solve this problem this year because it\u2019s simply not healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: Can you share with us how your creative process works?<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashiya<\/span>: Well, there are two ways of working, First, if I\u2019m drawing an illustration for myself, I just eventually see the picture inside of my head, then sketch and paint.<\/p>\n

If I\u2019m doing something like a project, first I do some research for concepts and inspiration, then I do a lot of sketches to choose which one is the best and after that, I paint it. Of course in this process, there can be a lot of change steps from a client.<\/p>\n