Crochet hat

This is my first crochet hat for Blythe. (50% reduction of size of human hats). I guess I need to work on it more...

The picture book Blythe pointed out is 'The story of Three bears' from Russian folktale illustrated by Piu Sudo, Japanese illustrator. Her illustration made this old-time story cute and interenting.

Practice.

Since I made some papercrafts, I wanted to make my own so I modified the initial kakukaku APH templates more and made animals. :-)
I use CorelDRAW X5. It was quite handy to modifiy templates. I had been struggling to take photos with sufficient light but I can adjust brightness in Corel photo-paint. Yay!

Katamari with Giraffe head

I found a giraffe head which matches with my Katamari cousins collections.

Digital Devil Saga

From PS2 'Divital Devil Saga Avatar Tuner'

Roald, Sera, Jena angel
Sielo, Heat, Serph, Gale, Aregilla

Persona 1

Here are characters from Persona1.

Ayase, Mary, Reiji, Mark
Nanjo, Yukino, XXX, Maki, Brown

Teddy in Persona 4

Teddy : 'Kuma kuma~?'

Teddy : 'Where's everybody?'

Teddy : 'I found you!!'

Restaurant

I made another doll house. It's a restaurant. There's more places to enjoy your paper toys.

bedroom light

sharp knife

It's essential to have a sharp knife. :-)

Mentor

I had an opportunity to refresh my heart that has swayed recently.

Then there was someone popping in my head.

He is Yoshitomo Nara.

He is from Hirosaki city where is the next door to my home-town in Japan.

His artwork is well known to people all over the world. (you'll know when you google his name.)

His characters have not only ordinal pretty looking face but also look angry.

His sentences touch my heart comfortably every time I open his books.

I feel a mysterious connection with him. (without him knowing of course! ;-) ).

When I returned to my parents' house several years ago, I visited Hirosaki for strolling window-shopping, taking a local train for 1 hour or less.

In Hirosaki, I met my friend on the street by accident (what a coincident it was) and she told me there was a private exhibition of Nara at a local sake factory.

I had no reason not to go so I decided to spend some time at the gallery.

Once I saw the character of his, I instantly knew I have seen them before. And was impressed to know the world well known artist was from my next-door.

I remember my heart felt pumped. I didn't wanna leave there as if I would loose the feeling if I did so. (the atmosphere was so comfortable.)

I loved every bits of his artworks. I couldn't see him personally at the event but even if I could, I didn't know what to talk... I can be too shy. ;-)

After the event, the feeling stayed in my hear for a while. Another years later I bought his books (one was Nara note which I introduced before.)

I was attracted to his work even more. I wanted to live in his world. His expression of feeling and thoughts were perfect for me.

When I think about my future with a heart blank, a work of Nara and another artist Jim Houser came out to a head.

I don't have any background in art industry (I'm just a fan of some artists) but it is fascinating me always.

How difficult it is to keep expressing oneself though works without failure? Not many people get fame out of it. Most artists would struggle to get 'there' yet they won't stop making art.

I know the feeling although I haven't even started to get 'there'.

Sometimes it gets praised Sometimes it's treated like a rubbish.

In such times it is important to have a faith in ourselves.

Believe in ourselves. Trust the future. Go! Go!

I want to communicate with the people I admire if I have to.

Thank you, everyone.

Persona 4

I modified Hetalia papercraft.

(PS 2 "Persona 4" Atlus)