| Hitoshi Asano Profile |
| 1958 |
| Mr.Asano was born on July 16 in Sendai city Japan. He lived there until 18 years old. |
| 1976 |
| He attended Tokyou zoukei university in the visual design department. While in university, Mr.Asano had drawn over 50 drawings, |
| That were use in the book called `How to doraw illustrations`. Released by Nippon Bungeisyawhich in 1981. |
| After that,Mr.Asano had competed in two art drawing contest, which he receive prizes for both competitions. Also,Mr.asano worked |
| part time for design company called Asaba Design in which he was an assistant illustrator to Mr.Yuji Kaida. During that time, |
| he had drawn A-size advertisementr that was used by the Seibu department store. |
| 1980 |
| Mr.asano had started to work as a free-lance illustrator. |
| 1981 |
| Mr.Asanno had started a contract with science magazine called Newton. |
| And for 20years untill 2001, he had drawn many scientific and medical related illustrations for that company. |
| 1985 |
| 1986 |
| Mr.Asano had started to include medical illustrations as well as mechanical and science illustrations. |
| 1990 |
| 1992 |
| Mr.Asano started to weight train and bodybuild. |
| 1996 |
| Mr.Asano had started to use computer graphics to draw his design and artwork. |
| 1998 |
| Mr.Asano had completely stop using conventional painting and drawing techniques and completely move over to using computers. |
| 2002 |
| Mr.Asano was contracted by Daiichi Seiyaku and Dentu Sadlar and Hennesey to produce `The new atlas for angiography' |
| which was not for sell at that time. |
| 2003 |
| Mr.asano had run the 12th Tokyo bay Urayasu marathon [he took part in 10km road race], and he took the 42nd place by running 44minuits and 15seconds, |
| out of 217 people. |
| 2004 |
| Mr.asano had run the 13th Tokyo bay Urayasu marathon [he took part in 10km road race], and he took 52nd place by running 43minuits and 18seconds, |
| out of 330 people. |
| 〜 at present. Mr.Asano is still working as a Free-lance illustrator in Japan. |
| A main contract： |
| Dentu Sudler&Hennesey Inc |
| Kao Corporation |
| Newton press |
| Shogakukan Creative Inc |
| k.k.Standard Mcintyre |
| Others (alphabetical order) |
| The self-portrait of |
| Asano |
| The self-portrait of Asano |
| which a portrait painter drew |
