Aoi Takeda was born in Chiba, Japan in 1994 and currently still lives there. After working at an elementary school as a school nurse, she decided to start working independently as a freelance illustrator in 2018. She usually uses watercolor to draw her pictures, sometimes in combination with Photoshop . She also can create digital art using only Photoshop. She draws her art in an innocent, fantasy-like style, mostly made up of cute animals and colorful, dreamy landscapes.
Until now she worked on children's books, educational material, illustrations for candy packaging, TV Kids program and a lot more!
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