2005 / 2006 Dearest Emily

I just realized that I haven't updated in two days!  Oops.  Sorry about that. D;  I've just been working on comics and playing Odin Sphere so I haven't been turing on the computer at all.

Today's update is about Emily, a character I met one day about two or three years ago when I managed to draw a profile of a pretty girl with a mysterious face.  I used this actual sketch when I created the shoujo kurabu screenprint.  I was supposed to give this sketch to my friend Guiseppe as I was drawing it for him to include in a letter.  But I was so captivated that I decided to keep Emily to myself despite dedicating the drawing to him.  I am sorry!  But perhaps someday I will give Emily to you. ha ha

Here is Emily with another fond character named Borgia who is quite odd indeed.  Always doing things that are weird and surprising other people and "scaring" them.  This is Borgia's personality.  But she is quite a compassionate person as well.  Emily at the time was still a delicate girl and often cried thinking about sad and romantic things.  Here she and Borgia are making a Christmas garland.

I don't like this sketch very much, but I'll include it here since I scanned it earlier.  Emily is quite a carefree girl despite her sentimentality and weak constitution.

However, gradually I find that Emily has gotten stronger and stronger.  She is no longer the meek girl I had seen those many years ago, and I find that I can't draw her as such unless it is to show her past.  How odd to think that she can grow.

And an extra. Ogata laughing evilly.

On the comics front, I think that things are going at a decent pace.  I've only done pencils (Ogata 3 pages, Gilles and Sylvie 3 pages) and have not gotten to inking yet.  Losing a bit faith on the Gilles and Sylvie (and Louise) story, but I suppose I should tread on!

2005/10/10 Dear Emily

Oh!  I am quite terrible!  I just realized that I haven't updated the past week.  To be truthful, I've been under the weather and quite busy as well.  I'm going to keep trying to update on a daily basis.

Anyway, today's drawing was done in 2005.  I really like it though especially the expressions of the three people in the drawing.  I wish I could draw comics that looked as nice as this.  I wonder if I can still draw like this.  Recently the people I draw have smaller and oval shaped eyes.  The style I drew in 2005 seemed to make the people more optimistic and dreamy perhaps?  The words say "Itoshii Emily" or "Dear Emily," but she isn't in this picture.

Recently I participated in this wonderful project called Kissybook, which is a book about kissing.  If you have a time please check out the site and the gallery.  I never drew kissing before so it was an interesting challenge.  I think you might be able to recognize which two submissions were mine.  I had so much fun drawing them!  They only took me a few hours to complete.  I think it's just because I haven't drawn in so long that it just poured out.  I'll put up the version I made for myself on the saicoink website when I have the time.

If you read this blog please make a comment sometime!  It can get lonely out here. (^^;