Doodles of the Month No.1 !!

Hi, guys.

I have started this Doodles of the Month project. Just like everybody who loves drawing, I draw tons of miscellaneous stuffs, and I thought it might be fun to put those on this blog.

I tend to feel a lot of stress these days, feeling I gotta improve, I wanna reach to that famous artist level, and so on. But main reason that I draw is supposed to be simply because it is fun.

One famous artist, Terada Katsuya published great book, called "Rakuga King." You can see many great sketches in this book, no restriction,but tons of imagination. Many people must have kind of experience that after feeling bored in the class, started to draw mustache on a female author`s photos in the text book. I`m feeling that I gotta go back to the very core feeling to draw. Drawing just for fun.

Anyway I will keep on doing this periodically, hope you guys like these Rakugaki !

Mikio

Imaginary Animal

This time I wanted to design animal for fantasy world, appealing enough to travelers, but also can carry stuffs on his back.

One thing I noticed is that I tend to find it difficult to make names for my characters/creatures. The name that I could come up with this time was, Camel butterfly........ (well, very descriptive,right?.....)

I may try another environment, or totally something else for next, you`ll see :)

Mikio

Environment design project No.2 (Gathering)

The scene that I really love watching of all the movies is a gathering one in Never ending story. First time I watched so many different characters and creatures at Ivory tower, I got amazed and fascinated by its imagination. The tree bears in Lord of the Ring is also my favorite, discussing about the war in the Middle earth. I also remember the gathering scene of old creatures in Dark Crystal.

I always wanted to be in those scenes as a chosen one from human kind, and discuss serious things in imaginary world...

What`s next?

I`m planning to paint imaginary animals for next project, plus I`ll start periodic project from this month :)

Mikio