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Today's practice

I've been doing a lot of things in parallel, three pieces for now.

2025-05-25 10:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Remembering my first impulse

For a while, I only drew lain's face.

After the work was completed, I rarely drew Reine's face unless she asked me to.

Since the completion of the work, I only draw Reine's face when she asks me to. Sometimes I draw her face with a signature or something, but that is just like a symbo...

Re-examining the balance between watercolor pencil and lain's face

Today my child sprained her foot and we went to the hospital together.

When they took an x-ray, there was a clear crack-like line on the bone of the foot, and they decided to take a CT scan in the big department of the hospital.

It turned out that it was just a sprain, and what looked...

lain only, I can't draw well with standard drawing.

I used to draw a cross inside an oval circle and use that as a guide to draw the face, but I am trying to change my drawing style to a more academic drawing style where I draw the skull of the brain and the skull of the face separately.

It is working well so far, but lain is t...

lain, acrylic painting study. Finally started!

I finally started the acrylic painting of "lain", which I had not been able to start yet, nor had I been able to start the rough sketch. If I'm so nervous about the study, I don't know what will happen to the main painting. ......

2025-05-21 10:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post

I failed to upload it!

Too bad, I was updating daily.

I left work early for a business meeting and went home, so I was unable to update the site.

I need to get a Mac so I can do some basic work at home.

This is the one I drew on May 20th.

And yesterday the Switch2 lottery was announced, and to m...

Today's 5 drawings.

Almost every day, I call it morning practice, and I draw a light croquis and record it, but it's hard because the videos have accumulated.

The videos of me drawing are very long and silent, but the editing process takes several hours, and if I'm not very good at it, the morning practice end...

I painted Lain with acrylic paint on glass.

I am experimenting with acrylic paint because it seems to be able to paint on a variety of materials.

This is a thick glass plate used for processing leather products. I do not know the details, bu...

I am getting better at croquis while speaking. This has allowed me to update my videos daily.

However, if I make two videos a day, I have accumulated so much stock that I can no longer keep track of which videos I have posted. It is a happy cry.

And although my days are busy, with no weekends or holidays, they are somehow fulfilling. There is a lot of pressure when I draw for work, ...

I've been doing morning croquis for a few days now and I'm getting a little used to it.

I started doing some croquis in the morning before work. I hadn't posted the first ones I drew, so here are those three and today's three side by side.

First, the croquis from May 13th.

2025-05-16 10:12:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Practice is fun!

Practice in the morning! but it ends up being lunchtime, and I draw a simple croquis every day.

It is important to go back to the basics. If you continue to draw in your own style, distortions will accumulate before you know it.

朝練！と思っているのについ昼になって�...

I painted lain with acrylic paint on an aluminum plate.

When I started using paints, I wanted to have fun and paint on different objects, so I bought an aluminum plate and a sheet of glass.

I painted a light coat of gesso, let it dry for a day, and then...

Doodling to get an idea of character design

Lately, I do a lot of doodles like this in my notebook to get an idea of the character.

This is the main character of the story I have in mind.

I had a vague image of the character in my mind, but when I drew it, I realized that it was not at all what I had in mi...

How to Draw a World Standard Head 01

I have been practicing this for a while. I will make a video with explanations.

Also a sheet of colored...

Head Drawing Practice

I have been practicing drawing in my spare time, it took me a long time at first, but I think I will be able to do it much faster if I do a lot of drawings.

とりあえず隙間時間を見つけて描いてます。最初は時間がかかっていましたが、枚数こなせば、け�...

YouTube Video Finished! And today's is unfinished.

Yesterday I re-recorded the video on how to draw a head several times, but I threw away the recordings I made yesterday and re-recorded it from scratch, which means I re-recorded the video 5 times, over an hour long. I'm busy at work and you can see it at .......

And I am drawing another pi...

I've been shooting video all day and I can't get the story straight. And one of my favorite images.

Lately, I've been trying to change the way I draw a picture. I am trying to change the way I draw from the so-called "circle with a slat" to a more academic way where I draw the skull of the face and the skull of the brain separately, but it is difficult to change the way I have been drawing by h...

Is this a rejection or ......?

I'm trying to get used to acrylics and I'm painting different kinds of paintings every day. I wanted to practice painting thickly, so I painted this picture, but it is not my original way of painting, so I am struggling with it. I think it will come together if I continue painting, but it seems t...

New Shikiqhi(autograph board) are now available!

Some of the Shikiqhi(autograph board) I have been working on are now for sale.

One acrylic painting on canvas, three pencil drawings, and another painting on paper not meant for painting, which was very difficult to work on because the paper absorbs water, but in the end it turned out to be...

An acrylic painting. Leopard Gekko escapes.

My oldest daughter woke me up last night in the middle of the night. She told me that her Leopa, Yuki, had escaped from her cage. After a long search, we finally found her under the bed. I am glad that she did not escape outside.

2025-05-06 08:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Morning walk with my second daughter. And try to paint paper paste on canvas.

今日の進捗です。

昨日、早朝に歩いたら、集中力が切れずに一日作業できたので、今日もちょっと歩いてみました。早起きして散歩をしたよ、と子供に話したら、8歳の次女がついてきてくれました。

帰宅後、雑...

Today I'm finishing up an acrylic painting of lain, while also painting two miniature Shikishi(autograph board).

Yesterday I left my bike at the bike park in front of the station, so I got up at 6:30 in the morning and went to pick it up.

I walked around Inokashira Park and took some pictures, then came home and spent the rest of the day at work, drawing pictures and making videos.

2025-05-04 10:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Today's drawing. I'm drawing lain with acrylic paint.

I bought a small canvas on Amazon and am painting Lain with acrylic paint. It's like a study for a solo exhibition. It's my first canvas and I've only been using acrylic paint for a few days, so I'm still not sure how to use it and it's a lot of trial and error, but it's fun. The way the paint ad...

Today's Shikiqhi(autograph board).

This is a picture I drew to generate ideas for a character in a story I'm planning to write. It's a little more mature and solid than the image I had in my head, so I'm going to draw a few more to get closer to the image. Someone might recognize the character from that Shikishi later on when the ...

Characters that may one day appear in some story.

This is a autograph board. This is a character design rough, or rather a study, for a character that may one day appear in some story. It is relatively close to the image, so it may appear as it is, or it may change for balance when the other characters are finalized.

2025-05-01 10:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Drawing on square autograph board, a struggle with water-absorbent paper

The picture is drawn on autograph board. Today, I'm having fun with acrylic painting tools.

However, I'm drawing on a type of paper that absorbs water on the surface, coating ...

We paint on square drawing paper.

We paint on square drawing paper.

The first series of paintings is sold out.

I am working on the second series of paintings, which will first be developed as reproductions, postcards, etc., and then sold at a private exhibition.

色紙を描いています。

第一弾の�...

Early sketches of Gyolo

This is an idea for the character design of Gyoro for Hitomane no Machi (tentative).

As for Gyoro, I have a clear image in my mind, but when I draw it, it is a little different from the image, which is frustrating.

Project Proposal: “The City of Human Mimics”

Project Proposal: “The City of Human Mimics”

Title (Tentative)

“The City of Human Mimics”

Overview

This story takes place in a world where humanity has perished. In a deserted town, remnants of hum...

水彩習作 watercolor painting

This is a circle cut from Comitia.

Actually, I am thinking about various ideas for my next manga.

I haven't decided what the content will be yet, and I have several seeds of stories and characters germinating, growing and withering in my mind.

This is an image of a character tha...