Random Fantasy Moment

I've been practicing too much anatomy stuff recently, so just taking a break. 

Upper Torso Study1

I've attended one of workshops at Charamake Gym(which stands for
Character Making Gym) taking place at amps. That day was focusing
on upper torso. They used really unique ways to teach so that was fun,
and of course I could understand about upper torso much deeper than
before. Hopefully this study shows some of my improvement in anatomy.

Simple Modeling

My first character and environment I modeled in my life! I was overwhelmed
with MAYA first, but I'm slowly getting used to it. We'll start animation from
next week. I can't wait!

Picnic

I just cleaned up one of my doodles. I guess i was hungry when i drew it.

Business man & middle aged woman

Random character design from my sketchbook2. I'm getting used to Cintiq.

This thing makes my workflow much much faster, I love it!

Punk Guy

Random character design from my sketchbook. Testing Cintiq I got last week.

Usagi Drop

Usagi Drop is one of my favorite TV-series anime on this season.

This heartwarming anime is done by Production I.G known for 

Ghost in the Shell. 

I love how character's acting choices are really subtle and believable.

There are lots of child characters in this anime but all of them are 

really realistic and cute in natural way not like moe. I'm pretty sure 

that they studied lot about kids. 

Really recommended for anime fans who's already tired of moe, 

real cuteness in here.

Vol.4 Cutesies

My illustration posted on July 16, "Child with Monster"was featured on

cutesies magazine at sketchoholic.com. It's small on the page but it was
the first time for me to be exposed like this, so I'm pretty happy.

Check lots of cute illustrations at Vol.4 Cutesies here,

http://www.sketchoholic.com/flipbook/cutesies

Kung Fu Panda2

I've watched Kung Fu Panda 2 today! I was waiting for this!!! Sucks

thing about living in Japan is that theater shows foreign movies sooo

late...I'm still waiting for Rango, Damn it! anyway

the movie was great! Lots of cool actions, funny gags, and impressive

acting. Generally, sequel tends to not really good, but this one was

awesome. Some actions were way too fast and I couldn't see what

characters exactly doing, but at least I could feel that there's speedy

fighting going on. I liked last one's story better but this one was good too.

I can't wait for DVD!

Shinya's b-day

This is a drawing I did for my friend's birthday. He is studying architecture

so some how related to that.

Figure Drawing - July 2011

I really enjoy drawing but I often be too lazy to scan and edit my works...

finally finished uploading last month things.

Sketches July~Aug 2011

I started to use pencil from last month. I like how it's easy to put tones.

Animation Mentor

I was accepted to Animation Mentor last week. The class is starting from

September and I'm so excited!

Tangled

Quick sketch after watching Tangled again at Japan. Such a nice

animation and characters. I can watch again and again. I love it!

Child with monster

another work for the contest at sketchoholic.com! I don't really like

working for background but i guess i did okay this time.

Time Exploration

This is a work I submitted for the contest at sketchoholic.com. It's such a

good practice thinking of how character gets old or young.

Buddha（手塚治虫のブッダ -赤い砂漠よ!美しく-）

I've watched feature animation, Buddha which is an adaptation from Osamu

Tezuka's manga. I LOVE Tezuka's manga so I was expecting something

good, but It was pretty disappointing...

Weird acting, cheap super natural effect, and even one of voice acting was

so terrible so that some audience laughed because of that. From technical

view, they seem using 1's for scenes that they don't need and using 2's for

scenes that they should do in 1's. I can't believe that this happens on

feature animation. I didn't enjoy the story too.

If there's someone interested in this,I recommend to check original manga,

much better than this movie.

Figure Drawing - June 2011

Some of conte pencil drawings I couldn't put last time. I was experimenting with color pencil recently but I guess conte pencil works better for me.

Sketches May~June 2011

My sketches during May and June. I've done most of sketches around station. Second ones are done in a figure drawing class that I go every week.

Miku

Random illustration of Miku Hatsune. I just cleaned up(?) and colored my daily doodle.

Aim for the Top2! （トップをねらえ２！）

I've just finished watching all of Aim for the Top episodes. I really enjoyed

lots of classical robot anime expressions. Extreme actions and story,often

fool but somehow freakin cool! I could see the origin of Gurren Lagann.

Good stuff.

Lupin The Third

Lupin III has been one of my favourite anime heros since I was little. So cool.

KICK-ASS

I watched Kick-ass today so I drew Hit girl. I didn't really like the story but there were some cool actions I guess.

Despicable Me

I got the DVD for Despicable Me so I drew 2 favorite characters from that.

Maybe the first fan art in my blog.

Figure Drawing - April ~ June 2011

Some figure drawings done between April and June.

Animatable Cloth tests

I'm trying to design a character for some simple flash animation practice.

exploring for appealing and also animatable design...

Old Couple

Continuing from last one, a practice for old characters...

I'm really busy getting driver's licence now. can't draw much recently...Darn it!

Design Festa33

Last weekend, I went to Design Festa! It's basically a event for all creative

things. I went there to see mainly illustrations but I saw lots of other

interesting and inspiring creations there. Such an awesome event for

all artists!

link↓

http://www.designfesta.com/index_en.html

Here's some pics

These are some post cards with crazily cute illustrations I got.

Japan is filled with CUTE things! I love it!!!

If you're interested in artists from these post cards, I've put some of artist's

links in "Great Inspirations"(right corner), so visit them! Most of links with

(JP)s are links added for that. (JP) stands for Japanese website by the way.

You can use translation website if you need.

Old Man

Back to character type practice. I found that it's pretty fun drawing old

people. This was inspired by a man I saw in train today. I liked his glasses.

Mean Twins

little break from drawing not familiar character types. Drawing kids is so much fun!!!

Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below(星を追う子ども) Review

I've just watched Makoto Shinkai's(known for 5 Centimeters per Second)

new feature anime film, Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below.

here's Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T37GhIqsO28

Same as 5 Centimeters per Second, it shows lots of really well painted

background and I could see how Shinkai really focuses on making a

beautiful picture. Every frame got nice lighting and composition,

so beautiful.

There was big difference in story comparing to his old films. He often

showed somehow realistic and nostalgic love stories, but this time, it

was ghibli-like adventure story which is good for family. Personally,

I like this one better because it's so simple and got happy ending(some

people might say different opinion about ending but I assume as that).

5 Centimeter per Second is kinda depressing for me...

I could smell Ghibli-ish style from trailer like character designs, but

it really had Ghibli's influence than I thought. Some points I noticed are

how character's hair reacts with character's emotion(think of Nausicaa,

when she got mad in the scene when her dad was killed) , and how

character eats.(specifically, how character chews. It really reminded me

of Ghibli) These factors made me feel like this film is less original.

Overall, I really satisfied with this film. I think it was really well

animated for whole film and got good actings for anime. All technical

things aside, I could enjoy this film until the end without getting bored.

At least it was good enough to make me cry. I've watched several new

feature animes since I backed to Japan, and this one is the best so far.

I don't know when it's shown in US or Canada, but animators should

watch it. totally worth it.

Sexy(?) Girl

I'm trying to get various character types as possible as I can! I tried

"sexy character" this time but I think it's not sexy enough...

Tough Guy

Random character I developed from my sketches. It's so tough to draw guy for me...