While discussing how to fit an entire production team in an 8.5”x11” photo.
Client: Can’t everyone stand in the front for a while?
Me: Excuse me?
Client: Yeah, I saw that photo effect in a Harry Potter movie once. Isn’t that photoshop?
Me: No. That’s magic.
It’s amazing how many people are confused about the difference between magic and photoshop.
I made this because I desperately miss sakura and hanami.
I’m not too good at drawing things in nature, so I struggled with making the petals in the background.
When I was younger, I used to be so excited when the flowers bloomed. We had a big magnolia tree in our yard and I would pluck one and put it in my hair before I went to school. Other times, I would do the same with our azaleas. The craziest thing I did as a kid with flowers was I would go around to neighbors’ yards and take some of their flowers, make a bundle, and try to sell them to a lot of the same neighbors. I don’t think I ever made any money from that, though.
I grew out of caring about when flowers bloomed until I lived in Japan. Now, I have a better appreciation for them once again. On my daily walks, I took a couple of pictures of some of the flowers I saw about two weeks ago.
Me: (observing a girl dye a man’s hair with a friar’s cut) She’s doing a pretty good job of not staining his scalp.
Sis: It’s a cartoon.
” —my sister and I watching Venture Bros.“If we crop out the fat kid, will it knock the file size down enough?”
I can’t stop reading things from here. It makes me laugh and feel smart.
” —(via clientsfromhell)The following comic was inspired by a quick 15 minute tan I got by just walking outside this week, all the rage comics I read all the time (if you don’t read them, I encourage you to check them out. http://ragecomics.memebase.com/), and memories of being in Miyazaki. We lived in a southern environment with temperatures much similar to my home in the states and getting a tan was easy there too. One thing I didn’t like was that some non-black people I knew kept talking about their tans and using me a point of comparison. My comic might suggest it really pissed me off, but it was more of an eye-roll worthy annoyance (just made me to say “bitch, please—look at my tan”).
I bought a few volumes of different manga I was behind on and read most of them while traveling last week. It was nice to see that I still could read things with generally no problem (although, I wish I had brought my dictionary, but I didn’t have any AAA batteries). I read the final volume of one series (was only 3 of them) called “He is Diablo!” (彼はディアボロ!) One page made me laugh out loud, which I tried not to do because it’s awkward reading comics in public when no one could understand what you’re reading. Anyway, two otaku girls from some anime club were taken off-guard during a fight because their opponent threw some doujinshi (fan-made books) at them. What was mostly funny about that was it was Reborn and Gintama based ones. Those are two of my favorite JUMP comics, so I appreciated the reference.
The scan is not great, mostly because I’m too lazy to actually edit it or bend my manga too much. Although this is a gag, there are many, many fan books about the Reborn/Gintama characters they mention. Even if you can’t read the Japanese, you can clearly make out Gintoki, Hijikata, Hibari, and Tsuna (or at least you could if my scanning was better—haha).
I went to see my friend for a few days last week, and she gave me this card. I actually thought it was from her nephews at first glance because she said we were going to see them soon. I haven’t seen crayon in a long time (I asked her to make sure it wasn’t colored pencil). There aren’t really many little kids in my family at the moment, so it’s not like I’ve gotten accustomed to random crayon drawings.
Anyway, my friend did this at work. I won’t show the message she wrote because I need not add any further sappiness to this post.
On another note, I rarely let others nickname me, but “Tin” is about the only one that has my “seal of approval.” It was made popular through my Japanese friends, and I grew to like it because it reminded me of those friends. Typically, no one outside of those friends use it, but the friend who made this card does. I call her “Double T” or “TT” depending on how much time/space I have. Haha.
