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My art journey - who I am and how I got here
Hello! I just realized I haven't written a proper bio for myself so far, and think it'd be important to do so. My homepage's summary is...

sayuuiart
Feb 24, 20249 min read


How to develop the perfect Visual Novel game
Hi guys, this is Sayuui! I've been in the indie Visual Novel business as an artist since 2014. I've seen it all. In 2016, I talked to the developer of what would end up becoming the most prominent visual novel game in the west: Doki Doki Literature Club. I got rejected to be their artist. You can find my YouTube video about this story here . That's why I write to you now. If I was the artist of that game, not gonna lie, I wouldn't even bother. I would probably be relaxing, co

sayuuiart
Jan 285 min read


Money vs vision - Should I go onboard on a long-term project?
Hello! Sayu here again, and now for some career advisement for other artists. Recent events inspired me to write this, and since the...

sayuuiart
May 4, 20246 min read


Getting your first vtuber model? Here are some things to consider!
Hello! Sayu here again. You would be surprised at the number of people who show up to me who have no idea what to get for their first VTuber model. From the standpoint of an artist who's worked on a handful of models - and a lot of them abandoned without ever receiving rigs - here are a few things worth considering for an aspiring VTuber to be successful and to have correct branding. This is the only specific case I think that starting as a corporate vtuber might be an advant

sayuuiart
Mar 23, 20246 min read


3 Years of being a full-time anime artist!
Hello guys! Did you think I would stop these series? Not at all. I like writing, and even though I know not a lot of people are going to...

sayuuiart
Feb 12, 20245 min read


2 Years of being a full-time anime artist - my impressions so far
Hello! Sayu here again after some time of absence in this blog. I hope you are doing well. 2 years of my full-time artist career have...

sayuuiart
Nov 20, 20228 min read


For artists - what pays off and what doesn't
Hello my dear friends! Sayuui here again. I'm going to list here what artists normally come accross when trying to grow and what pays off...

sayuuiart
Jan 23, 20224 min read


A professional artist's guide to pricing
Hello my fellow artists! Hope you are doing well. Here I come with another insight coming from my pro mentors and my own experience as a...

sayuuiart
Jan 12, 20224 min read


For aspiring professionals : How the anime industry works
Hello! Sayuui here again. These last years, I've been trying to figure out how the industry works to be able to enter it. All the...

sayuuiart
Jan 9, 20227 min read


1 year of being a full-time anime artist - how to become a full-time artist in 2022
Hello! Sayuui here. I would like to give this a go to maybe help aspiring artists to know what it's like, since I get asked this...

sayuuiart
Jan 6, 20223 min read
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