Naoto Hattori was born in Yokohama, Japan and was graduated from Tokyo Designer’s College in 1996. Soon he moved to New York to study illustration, and in 2000 received my BFA degree from The School of Visual Arts. While attending school, Naoto was selected to be in an exhibition of The Society of Illustrator’s annual scholarship competition, The Art Director’s Club in NYC, The 1st National CSF Award etc….  Currently, he is doing a group show every 2 months at the Subculture Gallery in NYC. Naoto specializes in super-realistic painting as a portrait, landscape and real life objects. He realized that if he uses a photograph or sees a real object he can paint exactly the same image, but that was just skill art and never satisfied his artistic needs, so he started painting images from scratch.  He designs characters and landscapes, sometimes he even changes the lighting and shadows or an anatomical state.  Mr. Hattori realized that he doesn’t like super-realistic styles so he paints things not too photorealistic or resembling computer art. [Naoto Hattori - Mind Garden Special Edition Prints]

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