A few weeks ago I bought one of those silly sexist manga capsule toys that you get about every corner out of a vending machine. I knew it would be fun to customize and not only because of the female shape. He. It’s a nice change to the never ending flood of round and simple western vinyl toys. I thought I’d also go into a different direction as the sculpt suggests and do something that an asian might not do.

Whew, just before the university closed its doors again and keeps them shut until next week I managed to get some pages of my current sketchbook scanned. Once again I am enjoying experiments with various liquid colored food stuff. Tea, coffee, nissin cup noodle soup, you name it, I probably tried it. I also seem to have developed a sense for finding fish in those blotches. I don’t know why but maybe it is because I have been eating a lot of fish ever since I arrived in Japan… Oh yeah, and do not miss to take a look at the last image wich is a good and honest preview for a little series of cartoony strips I am working on. I hope the subject will become easier to identify once the lettering and rest of the page is done.