Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Nakano report, Canadian Embassy.

I had some Extra time after going to renew my passport today and went to Nakano, Spoke to a cute nekomimi maid for an hour, in Japanese, not sure how I accomplished that, and then raided Nakano Broadway.

Interestingly, there's a new Mandarake shop.
It's not really interesting though, but the entrance looks super cool.



It's kind of like the 4th floor old toy museum, this one is kind of a museum for old plastic model kit.

I found a goldmine of nice ToAru stuff in one of the Mandarake, and that super cute Asuka's figure.
I haven't bought an Evangelion figure in a long time, but that one was too cute. And cheap...
Now I'll have to hunt down the Rei that goes with it.


And I'm adding 1 more Misaka Imouto to my strap/keychain collection.



I posted the collection yesterday on G+ but I'll post it here as well.


While I'm actually writing something on my blog, I guess I could talk about the Canadian embassy in Japan, since I had to go there today to renew my passport.
It's the second embassy I go to in my life, the first one being the Japanese embassy in Montreal.
The Canadian one in Tokyo is super huge compared to that little room in the middle of a big complex building in Montreal.
The Canadian Embassy is called Place Canada, and is a super huge building. I didn't visit any of it though, just went straight to the consulate place. Where I was told, I can only submit passport renewals in the mornings...
That's super stupid, fortunately, the girl let me submit it anyway, so all was fine in the end.
Passport renewal is super easy, hand the papers, pay, and wait 2 weeks (or so), no real hassle so that was fine.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

2 years of drawing

This week marked my second year since I started drawing.
I had big ambitions, even applied to summer comiket to make a doujinshi. But failed to be choosen.
And after that I kinda stopped drawing for a while and got into a slump.

I don't think I improved much this year, except maybe in speed. But I'm starting to wonder if this increase in speed may not actually be what is holding me back. I draw faster but I don't really spend any of that saved time improving.

I'm hoping to buy a Surface pro 4 whenever they are released, I wonder how this will actually affect my drawing.
I'll be able to draw on a tablet with my eyes actually looking at where I'm drawing.
Right now I use a hybrid style, doing the draft on paper with pencil, and then do the lines on paper too, and finish coloring/shading on the tablet. But I'm always having hard time getting the lines to look good with my scanner.

Anyway. I started drawing a bit more recrntly, and did some things which I don't dislike, so I'm hopping I can carry on that momentum for that thrid year and actually succeed at publishing a doujinshi, and improve.

here's last year in drawing, starting from october 2014(sorry for the bad quality of the resizing):

I also made a poll like last year to know which of this year's drawing is people's favorite.
http://otakushurikn.blogspot.jp/2015/09/best-drawing-092014-092015-poll.html
Please take a second of your time and vote on it please!

Best drawing 09/2014-09/2015 poll

Like last year I'm gonna ask you all to vote on your favorite among my drawings this year.
I think overall it'sll be easier than the previous year.
Also, if you'd like you can leave a comment as to why you selected the one you did, but this is of course not required.
I'll use the result and the comments to get better, hopefully.

Miiverse Ika Musume

New Year Kagami

Tama

Hajisai Ema KonaKaga


Main Character Chinatsu

Chicken Girl

Too Hot

Happy Birthday de geso!

Kagami brooming

Kagami whatever

KonaKaga

Konata Witch

Mystia's feel

Christmas Teen Shinobu

Winter Konata

Shy Kagami

KonaKaga Circle Cut

Urara

Mio

Imouto

Cast your vote here by using the name in the caption of the pictures: