The KAWAII Artwork by Nemupan!

Hi! Well it’s a kinda long story haha. My old user name was “Manly Rainbow”. That used to be an inside joke among my friends. As time passed, that inside joke stopped being funny and I didn’t want to people know me for that name. I went around asking all my friends for help with a new username. A friend came up with Tanoshipan, that translates to “fun bread”, being the direct English translation to a type of Chilean barbecue dish we have here (Choripan). We considered it was a good fit for me, since I always end up drawing food (I love food). But another friend said I should be Nemupan. Nemu translates to sleepy, and I used to have a habit of falling asleep anywhere at anytime. Plus Nemu sounds like my last name. Thanks for the name, Cami!

I guess I started drawing as a little kid and never stopped. But my decission to become an artist started when I was in my last year of highschool, when you have to decide where to go to college and that stuff. I felt I would never be happy if I went for my “normal career choice” (I wanted to study nutrition), so I went to Animation school. Once I finished that I started working on videogames as concept artist and animator. I drew my stuff on my spare time and I don’t know how, people started liking what I did a lot. That’s when I realized I could actually be a full time artist with all the support I was receiving from my followers on social media and cons I was attending on weekends.

That’s a tough one. I could say it is a heavily anime influenced style sorta thing? Sorry, I’m really bad at describing specifically my art style, so I just normally go by pastel color/cute girl/ Asian culture style.

My art supplies are just huge collection of fine liner pens and sharpies. I like to go with copic fine liners, the disposable ones are my favorite. I also use a lot Uni Color Leads (mint blue, 0.5) for sketching and my favorite eraser of all time is the Mono Black. For paper I go with Bristol, it has such a nice texture (and copics look great on it!). Also one of my mains tools is a Huion light box. It’s super usefull when I want to clean up my sketches.

What inspires me the most is other atist and artwork. When I see artwork I really like, I get super excited to make something inspired on it. I inspire on their take on composition, colors and theme/concept. It makes me want to try and do it my way to see how it goes. But what most inspires me is japanese and pop culture. It’s really hard for me to want to draw something outside those things, they really make me happy.