Ongoing Project with WACOM

Here I show some photos from an ongoing project with WACOM,
which is a world company of pen-tablet.
The first article has already been uploaded here.

In this project, I am teaching how to use Bamboo tablet and "Illust Studio" to an idle girl, Arisa Kumazawa.
*I teach "Comic Studio" at a school. "Illust Studio" is a different software but similar to it. So I can teach it too... (I believe I am capable!!)

Arisa is a freshman in high school, who loves art.
She is very tall like a model, but has a very cute face!
and... she is always nice to everyone!
Well, a bit clumsy, but it made her look much lovelier, I guess :)

...On the project itself, actually, I "was" teaching Illust Studio techniques only at the beginning.
After all, I have had to teach from figure-drawing...

It's been so hard to teach what I haven't taught (figure-drawing).
But Arisa has been working so hard and getting better and better!!

It is a great pleasure for teachers that students get such a progress.
It will be my sweet memory to have such a good student.



The shooting took a place in one of the meeting rooms of WACOM. (WACOM is such a big company!)
I hadn't seen this kind of light!!
Exciting!

I wish I was better looking...
I had no chance to lose my weight before the shooting got done!




















Just a few things to be done, but the project is almost done.
I have to work hard!!!!

Hong Kong Trip!

I had a Hong Kong trip in Feb (a while ago...), for Chinese New Year!
Just picking up photos to put here...

It's coming soon...

The Books in These 5 Years. (Magazines are NOT included.)

Hello.
It was about a month ago that I wrote my first article.
How many articles do people usually post in a month??
I think I am not a good blogger...

Well, this time, I would like to introduce the books I drew for in these five years.
I have drawn many pieces (like 2-3 in a month, which is 50-90 pages),
but most of them are just for magazines and they haven't published as a "book."



The books I completely did, including their covers:

"Case Study 100 - Respiratory System" Dec. 2009.
(Kind of a text book for nurses, or students studying nursing.)



This and the previous one below were something I had really a hard time...
I have to learn a lot of words, cases, diseases, etc.
Also, some people in the medical fields have never read comic (!).
Thus it was really hard to interprete their idea to the comic-story, and to explain how it should be like (as comc).

Well, they are all done and good (funny) memory now :)



"Case Study 100 - Cardiovascular System" Aug. 2005.
















The Books in which I drew a piece:

"The Japanese Fixers" Jan. 2008.


















"Sex Elite" Sep. 2007.

(Sounds like erotic, but not at all.
The stories are about women, fighting
against the prejudice, social problems, etc.)











"Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese Ghost Stories" May. 2007.

(My piece was, at first, just a sample for the publisher.
But the Sean, the writer, talked them and put it in the book! )












Most of them are available in Japan.

So if you come here, just take a look at big book stores!!!

Hello! It's me, Akiko.

Hallo.


My name is Akiko.

I am a professional comic artist living in Tokyo, Japan.
I have just started this blog to tell my friends how I am doing.
...and in case if there were anyone who would like to know my activities or my life.

The first thing I like to do is to upload an winter greeting card!




This year is a "Tiger Year" of the zodiac.


Hope you all have a great 2010!