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And some more. I'm really happy about how the washbasin came out.

I’m still doing the additional illustrations for my next stores book - I’m having a lot of fun doing these simple pencil and watercolor’s pictures as this is the illustrative style that I would like to get better at. I have to really control not to overdo these.

A sketch I did of a totally made up scene that I just got to scanning and editing properly. Just something I drew for my own satisfaction but it ended as an illustration in my upcoming book of essays on art-making. Watercolors and pencils.

My new book of essays on art and art-making is finally up online for pre-order, and will be on sale in about a month! 320 pages, almost 100 illustrations, a lot of food for thoughts (I hope!) Details on my website. **This book has ONLY Japanese text** 見えるものを描かず、見えないものを描く 予約開催中、2024年10月11日発売！ 長年執筆してきたブログ記事を中心に、アーティストとしての悩みや解決に向かった施策、考え方、楽しむ道を模索し続けた１冊です。

A pencil and watercolors picture I did during a short break from my current work. I’m still working on my books but my goal for the near future is to get more comfortable with this loose, more illustrative and less realistic style. However balancing the pencil lines (which are delicate and not so black) with watercolors (which can be very intensive and overwhelming) is still proving to be quite difficult. #stillmanandbirn

started on the smaller illustrations for the upcoming storefronts book. This time I’m doing some scenes with people thanks to Kana’s help in designing them for me.

A new painting from me featured in the limited original prints collection by @harugonomayu !! Go and het your limited print with my sign embossed into the paper! I had a lot of fun painting this after spending most of my year sitting in front of a screen writing and editing text!

I’m delighted to be featured in this limited fine art editions collection with so many other awesome artists!

playing with drawing using just one ballpoint pen. This time Caran d’Ache bold refill - so far I think that really their Goliath refills are the best ones I tried (and I tried a lot!) @carandache

Finished painting the illustration that will hopefully become the cover of my new book now to scanning and editing and polishing and sprucing-up …

Another sketch of a building and a sakura I saw recently on one of our walks. I did this one as usual in my Stillman and Birn sketchbook and I only have ONE page left in it to fill! Exciting! Currently I am spending most of my time going through the Japanese translated version of my upcoming book and fixing all the things that need fixing but I’ll be getting back to drawing soon I think 👍

Next picture from my sketchbook of local interesting places which will end up later in the Jindaiji sketchbook digital book update (on my Gumroad) . This one was a bit of an experiment because I wanted to try if I can do depth using two different types of paint. The stuff in front was done with just regular watercolors so the black lines are more visible and the things in the back were done with Inktense paints which are more white and milky so the black lines are less pronounced. It went quite ok in this picture I think. #inktense #japanart