Ms. Yoshimi OHTANI was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She began illustrating in 2000, but then in 2005, a great desire for creation came over her, and so she refined her passion, establishing a new style for her work using illustrator. In the Spring of 2008, she asked herself "what do I want to create?" This thrust her toward focusing her craft even further and she decided to launch a website joining the words "fun-" and "-arium"... "Funarium" and she began to focus on fine art exhibitions. "I draw my scenes with an emphasis on 'fun' while creating eye-catching girls who embody the essences of both Japanese and Western style and "Goth-Loli" fashion." OHTANI's creations combine a traditional mindset (iki) with a sense of modern Japanesque "passive demenor" (wabi), an "elegant simplicity" (sabi), and a "classic taste" (kare). The results give fascinating characters that are a hybrid of Japanimation/manga-comics and design/artistic expression. Today, OHTANI's works can be found in book cover designs, interiors of restaurants/bars, magazines, in video game music videos, cell phone icons and cases, and more.