THE BEGINNING
– where it all started
ON 17th OCTOBER, 2022.
I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. Once I was able to pick up a pen and do scribbly lines with it, I never put it down. I have a very extensive background on making art, including seven years worth of voluntary course-based art education outside of my own school. There are less art mediums I am not familiar with than ones I have tried. That is to say that I have tried pretty much every traditional visual art medium under the Sun, and out of them all I have found a few things that speak to me: pencil, inking, and markers. I'm a traditional artist utilizing almost exclusively traditional mediums. I like to call myself an illustrator more than anything else since my focus is on illustrating feelings, emotions, thoughts, dreams, and scenes.
My foundation as an artist is built upon anime and manga. At eight years old, I fell in love with one cute anime girl with pink hair and cat ears, and I decided I wanted to learn how to draw her. That is what lead me to learning the human anatomy, and now, my illustrations consist of various human characters. I am not a mangaka as I don't draw Japanese comics, and calling me a manga artist isn't right either. Manga and anime are my biggest influences in terms of style, that is all.
DEATH ON A PAPER – ART PROJECT BY ICHIGONYA
I started working on this art project in summer 2022 when I was put into the psych ward. I spent about a month at the hospital, and during those four weeks I was drawing a lot. I was using art as a medium for dealing with my very intense and uncontrollable emotions. Now, I have decided I want to bring those drawings together and continue creating more in that same way. This collection of artworks is called Death On A Paper. These illustrations will be showcased on the blog articles on this site as well as on my various social media platforms.
This art project consists of multiple collections. Each of those collections is built upon either a feeling, a symptom, an event, or a reaction that is connected to my experiences with bullying, complex childhood trauma, and borderline personality disorder. This portfolio/gallery serves as an introduction to each of the collections, called ‘CHAPTERS’, as they start to take their form.