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Get yours before the store closes on July 31st! 

hi i’m yumo! i love drawing girls, ocean life, and round things. aside from illustration, i’m really interested in jellyfish, cute foods, and cats.

Favourite summer activity: during the summer i like to go to the beach and look for jellyfish!! it’s so relaxing watching them swim.

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Today seems like another good day for… an artist spotlight! Today we’re featuring Dasha + Yumo (@yumomo)! 

🎨 Tell us about yourselves!

Hello! We’re Dasha and Yumo, two illustration students who like to draw and make cute things.

🎨 What is the story behind how you decided to table together?

We go to the same university and finally met this past year in our shared concept art class — we bonded through our mutual love of Ghibli films and traditional mediums. Since neither of us has tabled before, we thought it might be fun to try it together!

🎨 How do your individual art styles differ from and complement one another

Beyond the differences in our subject matter, colour palettes, and finishing processes, we both like using traditional mediums like watercolour and tend to circle around similar themes like animals and food. 

🎨 How long have you been practicing art for, and what inspired you to begin taking art more seriously?

Dasha: I have always been interested in making art since I remember, however I made a choice to work on drawing specifically during Middle School. That was the time in which I was first exposed to the internet, which led me to discover amazing artists all over the world. As my birth country didn’t have many illustrators at the time, I was very inspired to become one.

Yumo: Similarly, I’ve also been scribbling and drawing since I was a little kid, but I really started to get serious in sixth grade after I started watching Pokemon and saw other people’s fanart online. I was fixated with trying to draw Pikachu accurately.

🎨 What are your long-term goals involving art? How are you hoping to achieve these?

Dasha: Right now I am developing my technical and conceptual drawing skills in order to get myself into the editorial illustration industry. I am looking to work in children’s book illustration mainly, but I also would like to dabble in comics and visual development. I am also very interested in ceramics as a medium and really like to make functional ware and ball jointed dolls. I would really want to continue making ceramics in the future to accompany my illustrations.

Yumo: Careerwise, I would love to go into children’s book illustration and maybe visual development as well (specifically character design and matte painting). I don’t think there isn’t really a clear-cut path to either of these fields, so I’ll continue to work hard on all aspects of my work in the meantime.

🎨 Check out more of Yumo and Dasha’s art through their various social media pages! Yumo Tumblr: https://yumomo.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jellyfrill Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yumo.m/ Dasha Website: https://www.dashayildirim.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dasharonii/ Store: https://dasharoni.storenvy.com/

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Hello everyone! In order to celebrate the New Year, and our final two weeks of preorders open, we have decided to make one final sale for you all!

The Emperor 18% Off!

We are going to be offering 7 Emperor bundles at a discounted price, bumping its original value of $80.00 down to $65.00! Grab them quick as this Sale is only available as long as supplies last!

Introducing New Perk, The Star!

Due to popular demand we’ve also decided to offer an Enamel Pin only bundle these final days of the preorder campaign! Get all 4 of these absolutely stunning enamel pins along with a random postcard!

Thank you to everyone who has supported our project, it means a lot to us and we all hope you guys have a fantastic New Year!