Work in Progress - Wonderland

For me, Tokyo is like a giant amusement park. Attractions, distractions, and intrigue wherever you turn, in every nook and cranny. Everything you need to live is right at your fingertips, and everything you could want is available if you know where to look. This place even shuts down at night, as if everyone living here is just a visitor and after midnight we all go back to our boring real life. Then it starts all over again. I could spend a lifetime exploring.

This drawing is about being Alice (Pizza Face), flying kites with schoolchildren, and the anticipation of spring.

Pogo

This guy is my current reason to illustrate. He creates these songs/videos using sound samples from films. The result is truly beautiful. Work like this is an example of what fandom can do for a piece--these films, enjoyable in their own right, are a degree more complete now, having been re-arranged. Like taking an old drawing, cutting it up, and taping the pieces back together, sometimes the act of deconstruction can open up the hidden potentials of something once thought a stagnant, unmoving piece in time.

On a related note, The Secret Garden is one of my all-time favorite flicks. If you look closely, you'll see that the whole world is a garden.

Haiti

For my first illustration of the semester, I decided to pour my heart into a piece for/about the Haiti Earthquake aftermath. I've been following the news as it comes out. One story that struck me was this short piece about an orphan girl. She's one of many--but how many? I shudder to think.

I eventually intend to add a few color washes to this in some places. But I haven't yet decided what colors to use. Suggestions?

Intermediate Drawing

Sorry, these pictures were taken with my cell phone camera and are therefore very crappy.

This class is a throwback to middle school and high school. Except, I wish I'd been this good in middle and high school. Ha! Well, they aren't works of art, I definitely still have room for improvement. It's a good studio class for staying loose, if nothing else.

DESIGN FESTA IN HARAJUKU

I might have a show here at the end of my semester. The whole building is beautiful but each gallery space is very small. Still, its a chance to have an opening in Tokyo! In Harajuku! What do you think?

The Japanese Cell Phone Game

I just got a sweet japanese cell phone (see hamburgerdesu for more details) with unlimited texting and e-mail. I can get e-mail from anyone, anytime, anywhere. So, why not make full use of it? I want to hear from you all, I miss you!

The game: e-mail my japanese cell phone with international love and greetings (or requests!) sometime today, or this week, or whenever! and I'll e-mail you back a sweet picture of wherever I am at the time. No charge to you or me! It's unlimited!

The address: rmock@softbank.ne.jp

Check out these dorm photos

My apartment in Japan

it's 6 am here and I am stiiiill jetlagged.
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Trouble Shooters

For concepts, a re-design of an old video game cover. I chose Trouble Shooters, or Battle Mania in Japan, an old side-scrolling game. The original American re-design for the cover was just awful.


My hand letters didn't come out so well, and I think the poses are a little stiff. Oh, Haji in the background is a character from the game--the prince who the girls are trying to save. Awesome, right?