Happy April!! I'm celebrating with new manga that just came in!! 9 books and only one is from Hana to Yume...!!!! What is the world coming to?! One book is for work because I'm tired of having to rely on digital files for font reference, so I've started just buying my own books for this one publisher that doesn't send me physical reference copies ( Read more... )

Today I've been dragged one step farther down the path of digital-art, with the inking for my current Heroes A2Z book. Rather than messing with micron pens that die after a mere 50 drawings or so, and a pad of tracing paper that certainly won't fit all 122 illustration, I decided to scan in my pencil drawings and ink them in photoshop with my ( Read more... )

All yesterday, I was thinking that the 30th was the last day of the month (I don't know why-the holiday Monday?). And I was thinking that that meant it was Hidaka Banri's birthday. And I was failing her, because I hadn't had a happy-funtime-Hidaka-manga-reading party for the day. I read a bunch of Hidaka-manga earlier in the month while ( Read more... )

I was gonna call my mum because she'd emailed me about my yesterday and I wanted to get back to her... but I got the answering machine! So I guess I'll have to call her later. So you get to hear from me instead ( Read more... )

I am so done with robots. For ever. Ugggggghhhh. I wanted to cry, to tear/crumple up my drawings and throw them out the window, to run down the street and abandon the world. But I didn't do those things, I just kept on drawing amidst sighs and groans and occasional internal raging, and as a result ( Read more... )

Oh oh oh, I am so excited tonight. Maybe it is just me. But tonight is a special edition of Daily Fashion with Lys! Sorry if you are all getting bored of this by now. You can ignore it! I'm having fun though :D

( Daily Fashion DX edition! )

So, like... the other week, this one day, I somehow got hit by this crazed buying-things bug, and before I knew it I kept getting stuff in the mail-socks, cute clothes from yesstyle, etc. And one of the things I ordered so whimsically was an OEL Tokyopop series called ShutterBox. It only has 4 volumes out now, of a total 6 planned, but from a ( Read more... )

I've been reading all kinds of stuff, seems like. We'll start with picture books, then a longer children's book written about 130 years ago, and then manga!

( A Story for Bear )

First: Done! with the final book for one of the series I illustrate last night/early this morning. It was both a happy and sad moment for me. Well, happy and sad and tired and worried and relieved and so on, because it was 1am and I also was co-leading the first day of the arts-and-sports camp at our church this afternoon. But the other woman ( Read more... )