


She recalls not being very interested in a lot of her classes, since they often had the students do black-and-white sketches of plaster busts from different angles over and over again, which in her opinion could sometimes lead to being unable to produce anything good due to an unfortunate angle. The first time Q Hayashida had her artwork printed was in a pamphlet at the fine arts prep school she was attending at the time. Her mother usually told her how bad it was too, though thereby only making her tougher and giving her the will to progress. In her own words, her art style used to be "awful" before college, and she "wasn't even able to copy Toriyama's Dragon Ball style if her life depended on it". Not much is known about her, not even her real name, and most of the information we do have about her childhood, art style, and studies is thanks to the various interviews she has given.Įven before starting college, Q Hayashida had already settled on becoming a manga artist, submitting art to different magazines, and working as a freelancer for a while.
