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Only 4 more days until my solo exhibition: ......

Time is flying by at an unbelievable speed. I'm so busy with preparations that I can't make any progress on my new paintings. I will try my best until the very last minute.

In between, I painted a picture on a glass plate with acrylic paints.

Recently, I have been experimenting with...

Picture I painted today

Sorry for the delay in posting. This is the painting of June 27.

I made some progress on the painting of lain for my solo exhibition. But when I drew the hands, they were a little small, so I had to redraw the hands while correcting the pose.

With digital, it takes only a few dozen minutes, but with a large panel, it is quite difficult to erase and redraw.

2025-06-28 10:17:19 +0000 UTC View Post

New lain paintings for the solo exhibition "円環帰点(Enkan-Kiten)".

Will I meet the deadline?

https://dscaiman.com/exhibition/returnpoint/

間に合うかな？

The blur and joy of having to take the time and effort when it can be done in a fraction of the time with digital

Today's picture. This is yesterday's painting, though I'm late in posting it.

I'm having a hard time putting the colors together. When I want to make the rest of the picture a little bluish, I can do it in an instant with a color adjustment layer if it is digital, but with paints, I have to make a plan and compose the picture at the beginning of painting, or paint over thin colors many times to get the desired color tone little by little. When I paint with a digital sensibility, I often...

Once lain's big panel was gone from the room, I stopped updating this daily report.

The other day, I shot a video thinking about how to cure the habit of putting off troublesome things. The content was that if something is troublesome, put something more troublesome in a place where you can always see it from your room.

https://youtu.be/J9exlnpUvb8

In my case, painting a big picture of lain was a very difficult task that I could not get started on, but thanks to that huge panel in the room, I wa...

between thin and thick paint

While painting with acrylics, I made a small discovery about technique.

I’ve only ever used transparent watercolors before, so I’m still inexperienced with acrylics. I haven’t quite grasped the characteristics of the paint yet, and I often end up applying it thinly, as if it were watercolor.

To fix that, I sometimes forced myself to paint thickly, but it was hard to control and often led to frustration.

2025-06-20 10:17:49 +0000 UTC View Post

xxs-ish painting style

While I was painting without deciding what to paint, I suddenly thought that the faces of the people looked somewhat like the 1990s.Later, as I continued to draw and erase, that slightly old-fashioned look faded, but what do you mean by "a pattern that looks like the XX century"?

Well, I think that there is clearly such a pattern as a symbol, but even in my own drawings, a slight nuance of line can create a vague atmosphere of old or new.

2025-06-19 13:25:03 +0000 UTC View Post

I paint about 14 hours a day.

Part of it is because I'm on a deadline, but the other part is that when I'm painting with paints, if I don't paint before the screen dries, it gets uneven, and the paints I put out on the palette keep hardening, so I think I should paint until I use up all the paints on the palette, and so on, and the time is sneaking by.......I thought to myself, "I should paint until I use up all the paint on the palette," and the time passed by without me noticing.I realized that the time had passed by so...

extra fine pen and watercolor pencil work well together

I bought the watercolor pencils and have been experimenting with them.I used them to make a base for my life-size lain.

When I was doing pencil drawings on colored paper, I used to make color surfaces by rubbing with a rubbing brush, but the watercolor pencils can make color surfaces with a different texture, and it is easy to make dark colors as well, so the range of my expression has expanded.It also has a good affinity with pen drawings, and the outlines of the pen do not collapse ev...

Life-size lain, I just want to draw it in, but once I start drawing it, I can't finish it.

I must have worked for about 10 hours every day, but I haven't made much progress. ...... It's acrylic paint, but it's taking a long time because I'm trying to apply thin layers of paint and then layer them to create texture, just like watercolor. Oh no. .......

I've been slavishly streaming my work on a streaming site called KICK. I've decided to separate the location of the YouTube channel, because if I do a silent work stream on YouTube, I'll lose my channel's rating. I apologize if ...

If I use a big brush to paint a big picture, I can paint a small picture as fast as I can paint a small one with a small brush, right? I thought so, but it wasn't true.

No, of course I knew that. It is natural that it takes more time to paint a large picture because you can put more detail into it, but I had thought for a moment that using a large brush would not be so different from painting a small picture with a small brush, up to the point of roughly dividing the colors.

I did it, and it takes a long time anyway. It took me more than an hour just to roughly apply this coat of lain. If it were digital, it would take less than a minute.

I was s...

Today's Doodle and Progress

For the first time in decades, I am painting a large picture with paint. To my dismay, my muscles are a little sore.

My shoulders and neck ache from standing for long periods of time, and from holding my arm in the air with a paintbrush for long periods of time.

I have heard that there is ...

I like the witch hat.

I tried to make a video explaining how to draw, but I couldn't get the story straight.

At that time, I drew this sketch as a sample.

絵の描き方を解説する動画を作ろうとしたのですが、話がまとまらず、うまくいきませんでした。

その時に、サンプルとして描いたスケッチ。

2025-06-09 11:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Life-size lain.

This is the first time I have painted such a large figure.It is more difficult to balance the face than I expected.

I painted gesso on the wooden panel, drew line drawings with a pencil, added some shadows with a watercolor pencil, and extended them with a brush dipped in water.

I try to find a balance in a monotone like this and think about how to finish it.

It is not a painting that I feel like using very saturated colors, so I think I will probably finish it as it is in m...

I went to Jindai Botanical Park.

I went to Jindai Botanical Park on June 5 because the Shokudai Ookonjak flowers were blooming for the first time in about 10 years.

It is said to be the world's most smelly plant, but the smell only comes out for one day, and it was already over.

There was a jar with gauze containing the stinky ingredient, and I could see it in writing, but the ingredient was already gone and I could only smell a faint, strange odor.

I feel both disappointed and relieved. ...... 2025-06-06 13:27:24 +0000 UTC View Post

More and more time is passing: ......

The painting is not progressing as I had hoped. I think I am getting a little too detailed in my observations, and the lines are getting hard due to repeated corrections of details. To fix it, I have been erasing lines that I took the time to draw until they are too thin, and then daring to draw rough lines on them and fix them again ...... repeatedly. I need to relax my shoulders a bit more.

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The update stopped because of ELDENRING NIGHTREIGN, not because of ......

No, it was because of NIGHTREIGN (laughs).

However, I was not playing the game, but rather I was drawing a character called “Hermit” because he seemed kind of easy to draw.

I was going to publish the finished drawings here, but I wasn't sure if it was OK to post non-original drawings in a place like this, so I ended up uploading them to X and couldn't update this site.

I uploaded it to X and was not able to update this site.

2025-06-03 04:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post

ELDENRING NIGHTREIGN, I've been looking forward to it but haven't had time to play

ELDENRING NIGHTREIGN, is now on sale.I have always loved FromSoft games and was looking forward to playing NIGHTREIGN, but I don't have time to play it.

But I don't have time to play it; it takes about 40 minutes per play, and during that time, the game is so hectic that I don't have time to catch my breath, so it's difficult to play it unless I have a coherent amount of time, completely undisturbed.

Well, I think I'll go ahead and play one a day, in between work.

Shikiqhi(autograph board) Packaging

I started selling Shikiqhi(autograph board), but at first, I didn't have the proper setup, so I shipped them in a plastic bag with bubble wrap. However, I thought it was a bit impersonal, so I bought cases.

There are no boxes of the same specifications for mini-mini and mini shikishi. Mini-mini shikishi is held in place by a film, while mini shikishi is wrapped in packing paper and placed in a transparent case.

2025-05-29 18:23:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Watercolor pencils are fun!

I saw a YouTube video of someone drawing with Faber-Castell watercolor pencils, which looked interesting, so I bought some.

However, I accidentally bought a regular pencil in a similar package. I tried to stretch it with a water brush, but it didn't bleed at all, so I was disappointed.

After realizing my mistake, I bought the watercolor pencils again and finally started experimenting with them, which was quite interesting.

They seem to expand the variety of pencil drawings.<...

Sorry I couldn't post yesterday.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to upload a picture yesterday. My goal is to post every day, but it is difficult.

Yesterday, I was selecting paintings to display at my solo exhibition. It took almost all day!

Surrounded by piles of my past work, I was surprised by how much I had done. On the one hand, I was surprised by how many paintings I had done in the past. On the other hand, I wondered if this was all I had done in 30 years of painting.

When I look at my old paintings, I try t...