I’ve finally shifted to fully digital production of comics and illustrations in Clip Studio, and I’m looking to try new digital painting styles/techniques, particularly when it comes to light and shadow.
June 2020 – Illustrations
A Winter Morning
My graphics card finally decided to work properly, allowing me to finally run Blender 2.83 without crashing. Blender’s 2D animation functions are fantastic, and truly worth experimenting with.
Award Nomination and Educational Nods
Some exciting news: two anthologies that I have contribute to in the past has gotten some mild accolades. I contributed a chapter to both of them, and is very proud of having been a part of it–but most of all, I offer my congratulations to the editors who these respective books together.
These two books are:
- Women’s Manga in Asian and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities (2019) has been nominated for an Eisner Award 2020 int he category of “Best Academic/Scholarly Work” – which you can vote for here. I contributed a chapter about “comics-prose” and “Fabled Kingdom“, but it’s all thanks to the efforts of editors Fusami Ogi, Rebecca Suter, Kazumi Nagaike, and John A. Lent.
- The Book That Made Me (2016) has been listed by Reading Australia as an educational resource for secondary schools starting in 2021. Many salutes to the editor Judith Ridge!
COVID19 – Winners & Losers
Some thoughts on the current quarantine situation with COVID19, which has shone a stark light on the gaps we have in our society. Co-written with Sheila Pham and Masako Fukui.
