Did you know I’ve been in Japan for 3 years?!! I had no expectations when I graduated from MICA in 2008 but things are working out okay right now. Every day I draw (not enough though), I make smoothies (at a regular pace), and I check Google Reader (too much).
School just started again after summer vacation. It’s better now that I don’t have to commute to another city twice a week. A typhoon came by this weekend, but we’re okay here. It’s not hot every night anymore, and I look forward to cooler weather.
Tucker Stone reviewed SF#1 on TCJ.com. This makes me feel compelled to finish and publish more comics. So I’m working on Two Eyes of the Beautiful III now. It’s coming along in fits and starts. I’ve thrown out a lot of pages on the way. Of course it would be great to be able to just draw it easily and quickly, but the current draft is better than the first draft, so I am glad. Here’s a sequence:
On Saturday we went to hang out at Sayaka’s house with her dad. He and I can’t communicate perfectly, but he is a real cool guy. He recently installed a new bathroom and a new porch. The porch is great. The bathroom is an amazing super-Japanese bathroom. When you open the door, the toilet lid is lifted automatically, electronically. The seat warms up for you. The bathtub is good, too: it has a speaker that connects to the kitchen so you can chat while your girlfriend makes dinner. The rest of the house is very cool: it’s old, kind of traditional, and also kind of foreign to me (I live in a modern rectangular shoebox wedged into a monotonous apartment complex).
Next weekend I’m going to Hong Kong for “research” – i.e. basically a vacation with as much drawing as possible. 11 days in the middle of the semester. I had to ask permission from every teacher to do it, but I’m really excited and sure it’ll be worth it. My ideal vacation is to spend a little too much time in one place (haha, similar to my life in Nishinomiya). I’ll let you know how it goes. :)