My lunch box was very popular...in the park

I went to the Golders Hill Park with my friends.

There were beautiful flowers everywhere in the park.

Especially, Tulip was just about the time to blossom out.

However, I was very hungry, so I had been to Eat Tokyo to have a lunch box for take away before I went to the park.

So, the flowers were all beautiful, but I had to smell of Miso-soup all the time with flowers as I was carrying it.

And, many animals came to my place as they were also hungry.

I wish I could share my lunch box with them, but I had chicken box, I can't give chicken to birds.

It was freezing, but we had really good time....

Great catch up with SUSHI made by dodgy Japanese

My friend has been asking me to teach him how to cook SUSHI.
So, We made a plan to make SUSHI tonight.

I wanted to introduce my another friend to him since the both of them are GREAT young Fine Artist. And also my another friend has just came back from his long trip in Europe!!

It was their first meeting each other, but surprisingly they got along very well and they were talking enthusiastically. I have found the both of them are very smart and talk in a productive way, which make their talking very smooth.

I was so happy to see they now know each other. It's always wonderful to see someone in different community meet with someone from others in one place and become friends.

But, honestly I am not good at making SUSHI (Although I have work experience in SUSHI shop), so they taught me how to cook SUSHI beautifully in the end.

We enjoyed talking and somehow kept talking more than 5 hours straight. It was like a magic.

I am glad to have such a kind friends who don't get mad to find out the truth that their Japanese friend was actually bad at making Sushi.

we went to shopping first!! such a narrow shop!!

not too bad, right?lol

amazing night...oh I look like ghost....

The Latest News!!!

I have 2 news!!

The first one, I did hair model yesterday and my hair is somehow like an acorn now!!! oh no------!!

The second one, my book will be exhibited in upper street gallery in London College of Communication(Elephant&Castle) from next week!!!
Anyone who is interested in art, coooooooome♪
There will be about 400 works in 6galleries!!

Romanian Dracula Energy Soup for Japanese Zombi...

My friend is from Germany but his family originate from Romania, where "Dracula" is come from.

Today I went to college to install my work in the gallery, but I understood that I can't exhibit my work until other people finish installing their works as I need table in a middle of the gallery.
I was calm but I was nearly dead with fatigue, like a Zombi.

Then, my friend texted me to come to his house for lunch.
I knew I still have pile of things to do, but I had no more energy, so I went to his house.

He knows about vegetables a lot as he is vegan and he always show me some new food which I haven't seen before.

While I was explaining about the mystery of my daily life, he cooked "Lime Beetroot Soup" quickly and efficiently.

I was surprised to see the colour of soup at first, because it was like a blood.
But he told me it 's natural colour of beetroot and not blood.
It was true, the soup was so yummy and I felt much better after eating his miracle Dracula soup.
Maybe he put some magic in the soup.

The London Book Fair -endless reseach-

 

I went to the London Book Fair after school today.

It was very close to my house compared to Bologna Children's book fair. But I still felt Kensington Olympia was so far away.

I went to the bookfair because one of my artist's friend told me that it's one of the biggest bookfair in London, which was true.

It was HUGE!! and so many people and so many professionals as I expected. 

This time, I didn't see anyone who is carrying portfolio. I have seen those kinds of young illustrators in Bologna Bookfair many, but I guess this bookfair was more for making contracts between publishers.

However I couldn't just leave without talking with anyone. I traveled to Olympia although my body was full of pain with fatigue from last few weeks. My main purpose of visiting there was to get feedback for my new book.

I walked around the booths and looked for someone who could give me a minute to talk. Very luckily, I found a few people from publishing companies who kindly accepted my favor. They quickly read my books and gave me some advices:) Many of them gave me the contact of art director in their company, in case I want to have more questions or feedback.

So, now.. I have got to make pdf file and send them!!

My adventure of making book never has a ending:))))

Preparing for the exhibiton -I love his work-

everyone's work

After yesterday's submission, we have started preparing for our final exhibition which start in 2weeks (from 28th of April). 

10:30am, their was announcement about where each student's work will exhibit. There are 6 galleries in our college. The lists showed us which gallery we were chosen for.  It reminded me of the announcements of entrance exam's results in Japanese universities.

Mine said "US", at first I didn't get it. Why US, not UK?
But later, I found out that it was "Upper Street Gallery" where I walk through everyday.
I was very happy because one of my best friend was chosen to the same gallery as well. When we showed our works each other, we were saying that it would be wonderful if we could exhibit in same gallery. And it seems our wish is becoming true!!

11:30am, we had an inductions about setting our works tomorrow. I can't really imagine what it will be like 400works in 6 galleries.

Me and my friend went to the flat copy studio. It's took 2hours to finish taking all pictures. But it was still smooth since we have worked together to shoot books in flat copy studio for several times before.

I love his work!! His work is amazing!!!!

Project "Food" by Daniel Faltys

I just can't believe why he is able to make such such beautiful works.
Everything is so detailed. He is very calm and relaxing person normally. But I can tell that when he come to make his work, he gets an obsession with materials and design. The great thing is that he knows what he wants to make from very beginning, so that he focuses on making his final piece with well planned.

Obviously, our styles are opposite. maybe that is why we are very good friend as we miss some of our parts each other. 
I'm like I don't really know what my final piece will be until the last minute. Even if I planned very carefully, I always get a something completely different piece in the end. It's actually not only about my art work, maybe my daily life too.

He often wonders why I gets into trouble easily in my daily life. And I often wonder why he can keep so calm and so smart with what he does. The one of the reason might be that he does what he can expect, while I just do.

My sketchbooks are full of my junk and it's hard to close as I stick everything I like. But his sketchbooks are so simple and beautiful.

I really admire his style and appreciate what he is.
I'm looking forward to seeing his future.

But I hope he stop talking about cakes someday(His obsession about cakes are crazy!!). lol

Submitting works - We made it!! -

So, Today...Finally I have submitted my work!!

The deadline was 10:30am today, but I had been stack with my evaluation and I just stayed on my computer for last 3days for writing&editing, no time to sleep.

My friend came to my house to make me eat food and correct some of my English writing yesterday. And my another crazily kind friend, he helped me editing my loooooong evaluation, which I was about to give up.

What a surprise was I didn't know he was traveling in Europe when I asked help for him. He called me by Skype from the hostel in Spain. He corrected my bad English from the mid night yesterday, although he had to wake up 6am to catch a fright.

What is more, he edited my final draft at the airport in Spain in the morning and sent me the screenshot of correction at 9am as the airport didn't have wi-fi. And I finished editing the evaluation at 9:30am, run to college and submitted my work with it!!!

I can't thank enough him and many people who has been helping me for last three months...

Although my final major project is nearly ending now, I feel this is my new start. 3months have passed crazily, but I really loved making my book.
I haven't decided where to go after this course, but wherever I go, I want to keep writing stories and making illustrations.

Thank you very much for all of your supports.

Writing evaluation

I guess I have started writing my evaluation for my final project from 11am today and now it's surprisingly 2am, which means I've been stuck with my chair more than 15hours to just write and editing my never ending eveluation.

According to my tutor, it should be less than 1100words, but first I wrote nealy 3000words and now it's still more than 2000words now.
We submit this with our final piece and sketchbook.
It should explain the project well, but I'm very bad at writing in simple way.
My friends are kindly offering to check my English, but I feel very embarrassed to show such non-academic evaluation.
I love writing stories and journals but I'm not good at writing business mail nor academic reports.

"Practice makes perfect"

I hope....

Binding Books:)

After struggling with photoshop and InDesign, I have managed to print out my pictures in Degital Reprographic and I started binding from 1pm.
I saw them as tight as I can and I did gluing as much careful as I can.

When I noticed, it was already 8:30pm and the security came to told me that I had to leave college immediately as he is closing.

I was very exhausted on my way home.
but then, I wonder why I had to bind two books today.
I printed my contents twice in different papers as I wanted to see the deference.
but it doesn't mean I needed to bind two!!

oh well... at least, it was a good practice.  

I have two text blocks now...lol

Fonts and Cover

Today, I was re-editing fonts and also making a cover.
Although there are not much texts in the book, fonts completely change the atmosphere of story.

And also the font of colours are so important.
Especially, I'm making the cover design simpler this time, the shape of fonts, colours change the first impression of the book for readers. 

boring

too serious

too pretty

close!!

In the end, I decided to use orange+magenta:))

Back to work -Remaking a book -

When I woke up, luckily I heard the noise of freezer, which means there is electricity back in this house!! yay!!

Now I'm back in London, so I decided to re-edit my current book again.

I know I must submit the book next Monday and I already made one, but after showing the book to many people in the bookfair Bologna, I truly felt I need to remake it.

I thought colourful and big impression is important for making children's picture book. So, I choose high white papers to print so that the colours would standout. I made a book in A4 size with big fonts.   But now, I can tell colours are too vivid and all of my efforts to make "big" are actually destroying the atmosphere of story. It's not big story, It's tiny story.

So, I have decided to crop all of images from the white background, so that I can print on different colours papers.
And also, I'm making the font smaller this time and the size of book also smaller.

Adventure Never End -Blackout in London-

I came back to London today and I arrived 21:30 at home from Stansted Airport.

It was very dark, so I thought the people in my flat started to go to bed early or having a candle night.

But when I reached to my room which is in the top floor of the house, I understood that blackout has been happening in some of the house in this area.
It is so dark that I can't see anything,
Very luckily I still have power in my laptop.

According to my flat mate, it has started from 5pm and now it's 11pm.
I hope we have electricity back by tomorrow as I can't live without wifi!!!(I'm using my mobile's 3G now!!)

And also the house is sooooo creepy as it's very very very old.

It's not so surprising anymore that we get unexpected blackout or water failure in London due to the problem of system, although they don't have earthquake here.

However, why today??
I thought I finished my adventure when I arrived airport today, but it seems it never ends... orz

my room now...

Bye Bye PoPo&Italy -Going back to London-

I have stayed in Italy for 7days. Italy was unexpectedly thrilling and exciting.

Although there were several times I felt unsafe, I thought Italian people were very kind and friendly. 

I really enjoyed my time in Italy and I think my PoPo also loved the country very much...

so that he decided to stay in Italy....(I can't find him in my pocket now...)

Bye Bye Italy....

Bye Bye PoPo...