Ayami Kojima

Ayami Kojima (小島 文美, Kojima Ayami) is a Japanese artist. She has often worked in video games as a character designer and is most known for her work on the Castlevania series of video games with Konami. She is self-taught and enjoys reading shōnen manga.[1]

Ayami Kojima
Born
小島 文美
Known forcharacter design, illustration
Notable work
Castlevania series

Introduction and achievements

Kojima Ayami is a famous artist with more than one jobs, born in Tokyo, Japan. Kojima’s last name is the same as Kojima’s college as Hideo Kojima, both work for Konami. Kojima Ayami is a character designer and illustrator for video games, Kojima Ayami’s hobby is to read some bizarre manga and do some drawings for other authors, drawing characters in books like series of Vampire, illustrations for novels or some catalog covers, for instance, Cluster Saga and Nobunaga's Ambition. Also published self-made works.

Style and media

Media which Kojima has often employed in paintings include the use of molding paste, Conté Crayon, acrylics, India ink, gloss polymer medium, stumps and finger smudging.

Generally speaking, the sketch and composition is laid out using the Conté crayon. Shadows are darkened monochromatically using both Conté and India ink. The color composition is then blocked in using diluted acrylics. The three-dimensional textured aspects in the majority of her paintings are created using molding paste and a palette knife. During the addition of stronger colors additional water and the artists' fingers (smudging) are used to create the glowing gradiation which is apparent in much of Kojima's artwork. Once the base paint is finished, metallic paints are applied with a palette knife. Glows and highlights are enhanced using a gloss polymer medium.

History

She worked on the packaging artwork for physical copies of the game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night for those who donated 100 dollars or more.[2] She has said she could "only offer a small amount of time" for the project.[2] The game was released in 2019.

Works

Video games

Art books
  • Santa Lilio Sangre (2010) (ISBN 4-87031-923-3)

Books

References
  1. Bozon, Mark (18 January 2007). "IGN: Castlevania: The Retrospective". IGN. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  2. Porter, Matt (26 May 2015). "Ayami Kojima Joins Bloodstained Kickstarter Backer Rewards". IGN. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
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