Tomo's Blog

ISCA stuffs

2011-12-20T23:54:00.000+09:00

I forgot to post my stuffs I drew at ISCA convention in Florida!!!

Here you go!

LADY GAGA

2011-12-06T16:20:00.001+09:00

I drew this for Studio piece of ISCA convention.

I got "the best studio piece"! Thank you!

I wish you enjoy it!

2011 ISCA convention in Florida

2011-11-27T10:30:00.011+09:00

I just came back from "2011 annual ISCA convention in Florida".

This time 150 artists gathered from around the world!

They drew each other for 4days!

However it was hard to sleep because there were many great models & fun time!

It give me a new inspiration & motivation every time.

I Fortunately got a Golden nosey !!

Wow!!

Thanx to this society I've got a many foreign friend regardless of nationality.
It's a miracle!!
I could feel that we are thinking & feeling SAME thing.
See you again guys!!

My Wall

Live sketch

2011-09-13T20:23:00.003+09:00

I made a short movie of retail sketch.

Thanx to "Windows Movie Maker" I edited it easily;)

I hope you enjoy it!!

ISCA minicon in Osaka 2011

2011-09-13T10:39:00.002+09:00

Hi, everyone!

I organized ISCA Japan!

& we gave ISCA minicon in OSAKA this summer.

First of all I appreciate for them who came to "dangerous&expencive"Japan.

Still a hundred artists gathered!

Fortunately this minicon was supported by Osaka prefecture university & Sakai city.

They provided the venue & assistant payment as research funds of caricature.

But YES We expect those experience will bring this society a NEW wave.

& This experience let me notice to run the convention is too hard work..Oops:(

Anyway,,, see you guys in Florida!!

About ISCA Japan

*You can see all artist's walls.

ISCA EF COVER

2011-05-01T23:47:00.012+09:00

A lot of things happend recently to me.
As you know, we still have some problem because of earthquake.
But Tokyo has been almost recovered.
Thank you all for praying for Japan.

Now I'm working as ISCA JAPAN president.
We will give the mini con in Osaka on July 4-7.
I hope many foreign artists will join it!

I draw this illustration for promoteing it on the cover of ISCA issue named 'EF'.
Have you already got it?

Those are 'step by step' process for it.
I hope you'll enjoy!

If you are interested in ISCA mini con in Osaka 2011, check out this website.

http://iscajapan.blogspot.com/

or on Facabook page

ISCA JAPAN

I'm so excited to meet you guys on July in Osaka, Japan!!!

some commision works

2011-01-14T16:56:00.007+09:00

I've forgotten to post my work recentry:(
These are some commision works.

He is a famous Alpine skier,
and she is also famous Mogul skier in Japan.
Their friends presented it for their wedding.
I guess they like it!

(With photoshop)

She is my little sister.
They got married in Okinawa :)

Congratulation!

He is the Mayor of Atami City, Japan.

His photo is here.
Atami is one of the hottest hot spring area:)

I wish I could go to the Cripple Con.
Have a crazy time, everyone!

2011

2011-01-05T12:29:00.002+09:00

Happy New Year!

This is the year of the rabbit in Chinese astrology.

It is interesting story.

When Japanese people watch a full moon,

that crater's figure looks like a rabbit making the rice cake.

That's why I draw this image.

Anyway, I hope you guys had a great new years day!

Hero's babyhood

2010-08-03T15:36:00.002+09:00

It's humid here.

Last month I joined "AFTERCON Art show" in SD.

Several artists drew 'American Heros'.
I wished I could be there.

Korean famous Celebrity

2010-06-23T21:47:00.006+09:00

I drew these for 'Caricature Contest for 10 people who represent South Korea' with photoshop.

These will be displayed at a gallery in Seoul.

Byung-hun Lee : Famous actor

Mi-ran Jang : The world best weightlifter,
Gold-medalist of Beijing Olympic in 2008

Korea Mini Con

2010-06-16T10:39:00.012+09:00

I visited Korea for ISCA Korea Mini Con.
I got a great experience.
There were a lot of events, not only drawing each other but also some seminars, concerts and tightrope walking that we would be able to know well about Korea culture. I really don't know how they could this amazing mini con at the small cost.
Probably they help each other as a volunteer.

This time I got the 1st place and some awards.
I have no words to thank them.
I feel I have to treasure this memory and friendship in future.
I'll absolutely visit to Korea again!

These are my works.

My China trip

2010-05-27T21:55:00.006+09:00

Last week I visited Shanghai.
There were tooooo crowed everywhere.(espcially in Expo.)

But I enjoyed cheep&nice foods:)

and also EXPO.

...Who drew it?

Amazingly there were a man who makes a sculpture of tourist in 40-50min.

And He stay alive in China.

Some retail works

2010-05-17T20:30:00.007+09:00

These are my recently retail works.
There are many foreigner visiting to Tokyo Tower in Japan.
I'm lucky to be able to draw many kind of face there.

BTW I will visit to Shanghai with my wife from tomorrow to this weekend.

I'm soooo excited!

Another 3D stuff

2010-04-23T14:20:00.004+09:00

These are another sculpture recently I did!

New 3D stuff

2010-03-25T22:02:00.006+09:00

This is my recently work of 3D for wedding.
I enjoyed to make it very much!

Some of the retail works

2010-03-15T00:26:00.006+09:00

It is this.

Do you know the Studio Ghibli?

2010-03-10T19:47:00.003+09:00

These are my recently commision works.
They love the Ghibli caractors therefore I drew them like these.

Ponyo!

Totoro!

I also love the Ghibli works!

BOSSES

2010-03-06T21:42:00.005+09:00

Feb & Mar my artist's friends visited Japan.

And they stay my narrow and ragged house.

We had a ha ha happy time!

Yonie and Sonya from South Korea.
I may visit there this year!

Beau and Brian from San Diego.

I may visit there...someday!

The Godfather part1

2010-01-28T19:06:00.002+09:00

I finished a piece of The Godfather part 1.
I'm gonna see the part 2!

trying to draw new stuff

2010-01-21T22:15:00.003+09:00

Now I'm drawing " The God Father".

Here is some of sketches using photoshop.

BTW I wanted to join the Cripple Con!

Happy New Year!

2010-01-04T15:58:00.002+09:00

These works are Japanese New Year's Card
for my customer and mine.
This year's theme is TIGER in Japan.
I hope you guys have a great year!

This is mine:)

my sketch...

2009-12-13T19:02:00.004+09:00

I usually don't sketch...

These may be the sketch for me :)

CHICAGO

2009-11-29T21:31:00.013+09:00

This is new work of movie series.

At first I drew those characters separately.

And put them together on photoshop.

It's one of my favorite movies.

Completion

ISCA convention 2009!

2009-11-15T00:01:00.004+09:00

I participated in ISCA convention in Ohio!
The hotel was huge, and there were many participants.
I tried to use the color drawing paper first time.

It was fun!

And also I tried to talk in English,

sadly it was difficult...

I should keep learning it :o

But I made friends with several talented caricaturist.

Thanks, guys!

Those are my works in the ISCA convension.

Facial Recognition System

2009-10-04T12:58:00.005+09:00

Japanese company, Canon released new handy video camera

which has 'Facial Recognition System'.

They wanted to know,

whether a caricature is recognized as face by this camera,

and when it's done while I draw it.

One day I helped them.

You can see it on YouTube.

(But it's so short video.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq1-o-ZgIUc

http://www.youtube.com/user/iVIS

The poster like Japanese oldies

2009-09-14T22:33:00.004+09:00

This is my recently work.
It's the poster of small Japanese movie festival

that will hold at my hometown in October.
It's diffrent from my regular style, but I did it.
Because I thought I want to try drawing in other style .

MJ

2009-09-04T16:07:00.003+09:00

In this Summer, I drew Michael Jackson.
I've never seen any person who make whose face change like him.

But I love his music and performance..

Barter

2009-08-17T22:06:00.004+09:00

I made my friend's sculpture.
He is leather craftsman.
And he'll make my new wallet.
Acutually, we'll do barter these each other :D

Wedding Board

2009-08-05T20:51:00.002+09:00

Recently, two caricaturists of my friends got married.

I drew their wedding board.
Some artists drew them.
So a lot of wedding board were displayed at hall.

A happy life together!

And he is ISCA member, Ryo.
You know him, don't you?

Sign paint

2009-07-16T12:14:00.003+09:00

I displaied my illustration on the window of realestate.

Actually my father is sign painter.

He helped me.

That was good experience for me.

Self-published book 'anima'

2009-07-02T13:59:00.004+09:00

These days I made some figures of animals, and a short story with them.

Actuary my friends of caricaturists, kunikazu,

Tomoko Sasaki, miki, Tom and I made the self-published book 'anima'.

This book are made up with illustlation and photos of animals.

If you want this, please email me:)

(The cost is $15 and shipping.

*shipping: Asia area/$3, Europe & America area/$4, other area/$5

How to pay is PayPal. )

My live paint

2009-06-23T22:33:00.003+09:00

Last Sunday, I and Tom did live paint.

We drew each other and peaceful....

But finally, we painted the yellow balloon of center Black.
Actually the balloon that we held was bomb.
Soon we exploded and painted red all, and broke it.

That was crazy painting.
But we enjoyed that very much.

little by little

2009-05-31T22:43:00.004+09:00

Those are my recently works.

I've drawn the siblings of bottom every year, this is five times.

A child graw up little by little and change every year.

I wanna describe this variation.

Live paint

2009-05-23T18:46:00.006+09:00

Earlier, I saw the live paint of my friends, Taka Watanabe and Tom.

Taka drew caricature and Tom drew zebra.

I was sooo exciting!

Yes, she can!

2009-05-18T00:07:00.004+09:00

This is my recently work"Obama".

One day, My wife decided to make a small Magazine which feature Japanese Caricaturists.
It's called NIDO.

It might mean "master caricature"in English, Umm,,something like that.

Just like a EF "Exaggerated Features" of japanese version :)

Actually, I contributed this "Obama" to NIDO.

So she has been giving herself to make it.
I'm so exciting!

Have a good laugh!

2009-05-03T23:02:00.008+09:00

Last month, I visited Kagawa Prefecture where my friend lives in.
She brought her local friends together.
And I drew them.
I had a lot of fun and leisurely time.

All of them had nice characters!

The Simpsons???

2009-04-22T22:35:00.008+09:00

This is my recently work.

They are famous comedians in Japan.

I'm not sure why I made them like "The Simpsons"...

...Maybe their mood and behavior remind me of it.

Spring has come!

2009-04-10T13:26:00.003+09:00

Now the cherry blossoms are in bloom everywhere!
It's so beautiful!
If you come Japan, it will be better to visit while this season :)

And yesterday, I went to the exhibition of Caricature Japan(Kage's company).
There were various style of caricature, so I had a lot of fun!

What's up?

2009-03-31T22:50:00.003+09:00

These are recently comission works.
In Japan, the cherry blossoms will be blooming soon!

Crazy trip

2009-03-18T15:09:00.003+09:00

Early March, Andy Urzua and Jeremy Stock went back to their home. They stayed in my house for one month and we had a awesome time! We went to several crazy spots to meet Japanese friends, and talked a lot about caricature, each cultures and everything with simple English.

It's miracle for me! If there were no NCN(ISCA) and caricature, it might be impossible. I must appreciate them.

And also.... Thanx for coming to Japan, Andy and Jeremy. See you in OHIO!

Mini con in Tokyo

2009-02-21T18:56:00.008+09:00

This week, the mini con in Tokyo held in Asakusa.

I spend a awesome time!! He is JERO, the winner.

Here's my works in mini con.

And these are crazy works of my favorite artists.
Check it out!

Here's a painting by JERO.

Here's a painting by miki.

Here's a painting by Shinichiro Hashimoto.

Here's a painting by Chihiro Kagami.

Here's a painting by Yuko Tabata(Zengo), my wife.

Here's a painting by Ryohei Yamashita.

Here's is a painting by Tom.

Here's a painting by Midori Hayashi..

Here's a painting by Yasushi Ito.

Some Exhibitions

2009-02-13T20:53:00.003+09:00

Some caricature exhibitions are holding at once in Tokyo.
All of these are awesome!
I was inspired by them.

1. HOSHINOKO PRODUCTION, Inc
(Some NCN members belong to this company.)

2. Jero (He is crezy buddy!!!!)

3. miki & Tomoko

(Their works are sophisticated!)

And next Monday, mini con in Tokyo will start.

I can't wait!!

Mechanical photographer

2009-01-21T13:50:00.004+09:00

This work is for my friend who is a photographer.
I feel his body is mechanical.

He is model.

Andy in Japan!

2009-01-17T18:45:00.005+09:00

Andy Urzua in Japan!

He will stay a few month.

So we'll have a lot of fun, sight seeing, mini con, Karaoke and so on...

The new works in the chair

2009-01-09T22:11:00.006+09:00

Happy new year, folks!

New year I had cute customers.

New 3D Figure

2008-12-24T22:18:00.005+09:00

This is my recently 3D figure.

It was made by clay.

This work that change to the 3D image from the 2D is so fun.
And I can get a lot of learning.

Recently work

2008-12-16T14:48:00.002+09:00

This is my recently work of wedding reception.
I drew 22 people in it.
It spend a long time..

And more...

2008-12-12T22:34:00.002+09:00

Photos of original pieces.

(for Andy)

Original of the Sixth Sense

2008-12-12T14:10:00.003+09:00

Here is original.

The show finished!

2008-12-09T18:03:00.002+09:00

I had a fantastic time for a week. It was just like a Festival!
A lot of caricaturists came to see those.

And we had a lot of fun and relax time.

Much appreciate!

With Nabe, Sosuke and his wife Marie.

Kage and Akahori.

With Nikyu.

My small exhibition

2008-12-02T20:11:00.003+09:00

I'll hold my first exhibition for a week from tomorrow .

Pictures of this show will be uploaded at this blog.

Wait a few days :)

NYC & NCN

2008-11-29T11:15:00.003+09:00

Nov 2008, I went to NYC and participated NCN Con that held Raleigh.
This convention gathered a lot of crazy caricaturists.

It's happy thing to do my best.

It's start!

2008-11-28T23:13:00.005+09:00