Actual Illustrations I did on my Wacom Tablet
Because showing you my work instead of just telling you about it gives me cred.
Finally an Update! (And Simone Legno’s astounding advice)
This is my illustration blog for when the opportunities for Anime blogging posts dry up occassionally, but also to share with you my experience of becoming an illustrator and improving my work over time. Now usually I’m drawing, and most of it is rubbish, but in a day I get about five good images I can either use as a reference for another illustration or the basis of a work I can polish off for a quality print or something, which I’m a long way off achieving at this point in my career. What I can tell you is that I’ve reached the point in my illustrating career where you realise you have talent but you also realise just how small you are in the scope of things, because you haven’t even made your first quality print yet but some of your sketches look great.
Sketch every day, jot down ideas, I came up with a few today for t-shirts that I’ll share with you later when the final drafts are done. Yet something entirely unexpected occurred in my inbox today which changed my day’s direction from a run of the mill day of study into something inspiring: I got an email back from Simone Legno, the tokidoki designer:
Dear Jacob,
hope you are doing well. thanks for your eamila nd sorry if I will be pretty quick since I am in san diego for tradeshows and trying to clean my ton of emails that accumulated during those days.I think there’s not many secrets or tips to be a graphic designer. it’s a matter of dedicating your lifre to it. it’s not a jobm, it’ sthe way you have to think watching things. even when I wake up I try to focus on new ideas or all the boring heavy things of the business, behind every simple object can be a great idea. i always used to work from morniog to night and even during weekends. outthere there’s so much compewtitiojn that you have to really be one of the bests to get far. it’s important to be humble cause you never stop learing asnd getting into a style perfection and evolvement.Wish you good luck with your studies and lot of energy whn at the b eginning things will go pretty hard or wrong (happened to me a lot…it’s normal)Ciao ciao
Back from Kinokuniya
Bought two volumes today, the Starman Omnibus Vol. 1 and the OMAC: One Man Army Corps omnibuses. So far I haven’t been able to read much of them, but from what I’ve seen they contain a high level of awesomeness in unhealthy doses.
For instance, OMAC says: “I’m OMAC! Evacuate this section, I’m going to destroy it!” on his first appearance. No explanation, he just shows up and says this, with his daft looking haircut and blue outfit.
I mean who DOES THAT? I have never seen a comic book hero do that in my life. Not even Superman does that. Besides, he’s too polite. Perhaps I should read more to find out how OMAC got to that point in the story in the following pages.
As for the Starman Omnibus, there’s apparently going to be six of these hefty bricks to collect, which means it will cost me a pretty penny to find out what happens in the end. Oh well, the book is nice and the artwork doesn’t look like it was drawn as a webcomic, they actually tried with this one. And having looked through some of it I think they succeeded.
Having posted my current thoughts on the two tomes I will go to my bed and read them. Hope they stay fresh.
It’s Not an Anime Blog! But It’s My Other Stuff I Like!
This is the new space I have to talk about things that are not related to Anime. My Anime blog, Asperger’s Anime Blog, is where I usually talk about Anime, but I haven’t had a space to talk about other things as well for a long time.
Here is where I’ll be talking about what I think is good illustration, my art practice, and general things that wouldn’t fit in an Anime blog. Hopefully my Aniblogosphere buddies visit because it would be interesting to see what they like that isn’t just talking about big eyed bishonen characters.
I appreciate music, and also books, both illustrated and non-illustrated. Before I started blogging about Anime with my other blog I was a big fan of the Graphic Novel, and as I grew to appreciate Manga despite it being black and white my illustration became a blending of the capabilities of these two art styles. So you’ll see a few page pictures from comics that my good acquaintance Chris Sims covers if they meet the “Awesome Imperial Standard”.
Anyways, just letting you know about this new side-blog I have before I go to bed.
