Hisaharu Iijima (飯島 寿治) is a Japanese art director, background artist, and CEO of art studio Ryuubidou (竜美堂).
Early life
During high school, Iijima did watercolor and oil painting and decided to go to a vocational school where he found that he liked to paint landscapes and backgrounds.[2] He became a fan of Rembrandt and wanted to paint with expressive light and shadows similar to him.[2]
Career
Iijima started to work in the anime industry as a background artist at art company Studio Easter around 1986. In 2003, he was promoted to the role of art director and given responsibilities for Gad Guard and Le Portrait de Petit Cossette (2004) alongside studio representative Junichi Higashi under the collective pseudonym "Easter Princess Group" (イースター姫組),[3]