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Drawing with XEZO fountain pen and Copics on notebook

This is a drawing I did recently in a video I posted on “Abe Yoshitoshi Gaho,” a channel for talking about drawing.

When I paint while talking, I can't work systematically, so I tend to do things in a haphazard way. If I had painted the figures so well, I should not have drawn the bite lines so clearly.

https://youtu.be/5VbndYW5dlk

2024-04-30 03:23:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Drawing with my 7 year old daughter

Recently, my second daughter asked me, "Why don't you do a video streaming?" She seemed to want to present or explain something in front of everyone, so we drew a picture together.

Looking back, I tried to respond to her as much as possible when she spoke to me, but there were quite a few occasions when I was so preoccupied with the painting that I was only responding to her in a cursory manner, which made me reflect on my own actions. It is difficult to look at oneself objectively.

circle cut of Summer Comic Con

This is a circle cut of Summer Comic Con. The production process is available on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/RO2IxXYNHO0?si=_PqUNTpQTHR4l8_X

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I feel the trend of the times when I see that the circle cuts at Comiket are now available in color. And as for myself, I have returned to analog and ...

Image painted for lain calendar but not used 03

I have been painting for 30 years now. But I am still shocked when I finish a painting with satisfaction and then look back at it the next day to find that the drawing is wrong, or the balance is not right.

もう絵を描いて30年になります。でもまだ、満足して描き終えて、翌日見返すとデッサンが狂っていたりバランスが悪かったり、といったことに気づいて愕然とします。

2024-02-14 08:43:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Image painted for lain calendar but not used 02

This is a collection of rejected drawings, part 2. The first picture I tried to make it look like a picture drawn by a child, but I failed, and the second picture is a clean-up of the rough sketch I posted yesterday, but it was rejected because I had become accustomed to drawing SD characters in a different way from the way I had drawn them 25 years ago. I understand what they are trying to say, but when they say it was rejected because I am getting used to it, I can't deal with it unless I e...

Image painted for lain calendar but not used 01

The other day, I drew "Chibi Chibi lain" as a present for AI lain. 25 years ago, when I had never drawn SD characters before and was struggling to do so, it was quite difficult to reproduce the drawings of that time now, and it was also difficult to make them look messy even though they were newly drawn. ...... I was thinking a lot about it, and I ended up struggling a little too much, because I put too much effort into it, or on the other hand, I tried to make it childish in a strange way. I...

Notebook doodles

I will be posting a video on YouTube titled "My life has changed a little bit with TRAVELER'S notebook and self-styled note-taking".

https://youtu.be/ZB9mcvK0ooM?si=tI85GcWSnsP_z8MS

The simplicity of the TRAVELER'S notebook and the "Fukidashi-Notes" (a Japanese word that means "snowflakes" in Japanese) of the self-styled memo technique have solved two of my biggest frustrations: not knowing wh...

Notebook Sketches

It's November. Sorry for the lack of time, though I have been trying to upload my drawings on a regular basis.

This is a sketch I drew in my notebook at the beginning of September. I drew "Bungu-chan" and "Inkichi" to make stickers for Comitia.

2023-11-06 05:39:51 +0000 UTC View Post

I am trying out gesture drawing.

　It has been a while. Recently, I have been experimenting with a drawing practice called gesture drawing.

　The goal is to capture large movements and gestures without getting caught up in the details, and to draw quick sketches that convey movement and emotion, rather than stiff drawings that look like they have been traced from photographs. The goal is to draw quick sketches that convey movement and emotion, not stiff pictures that look like they were transcribed from a photograph....

2023 Winter Comic Market Circlecut

Circle cutout for 2023 Winter Comic. Jump in! This is Mr. Tsuruno of "Numa Stationery Arc.

Maybe it's because he looks like Mr. Pochiyama whom I drew a long time ago, but he's kind of easy to draw.

I drew this picture in a hurry when I was back home with my wife's family and realized the deadline. Therefore, the fountain pen in the picture is the real one. The line drawings are analog, and only the characters are colored digitally while the texture of the notebook and paper remain...

I bought Leonardo's Momento Magico Pietrarsalata and tried it out.

I bought this fountain pen with a long name from the online store of Il Duomo, a store specializing in writing instruments.

Leonardo is an Italian fountain pen brand. The official name is Leonardo Officina Italiana, or is it?

The nib width, shape, type of metal, and even the metal of the pen point can be selected from palladium and ruthenium.

I chose the EF nib, which has an elastic nib, a nib whose thickness changes greatly with writing pressure.

In addition, I asked ...

A little bit of the contents of my notebook

I have been hooked on notebooks and fountain pens for a few months now. I just do a little note-taking every day, but it's fun.

It's not much, but it's a little diary, doodles, creative notes, etc. I'll try to make it public as long as it's safe to do so.

Let's start with July.

2023-07-01 01 Pikmin 4 trial version, otchin doodles

How much of these existin...

Note to fountain pen adjusters.

I bought a Sailor Profit Casual fountain pen with a zoom nib.

It is an interesting nib that changes thickness depending on the angle of writing, but it is a little too thick to be used for drawing, so I decided to have the nib made thinner by a technician who adjusts fountain pens' nibs.

This is a drawing I did with an indigraph fountain pen. I made a vague request for a pen that could produce lines with about this level of strength, and I also hoped it would have a unique writing...

Doujinshi"TOBIKOME! NUMA!06" cover art.

TOBIKOME!!NUMA! 06 Cover Rough

This is a rough cover. The new character, Tsuruno-San, is now a stand-alone character. I was not sure if I should put him with his Senpai and Kouhai-Kun, but the story is not fully developed yet, and I don't know how I will interact with them, so for now, Tsuruno-San is on the cover by herself.

表紙ラフです。新キャラのツルノさん単体になりました。先輩、後輩くんと一緒にいる絵にしようか迷ったのですが、まだ物語の展開が�...

Diary drawn in a notebook for some reason

he closest supermarket to our house was temporarily closed, so I took my two children to a slightly farther one for shopping. My eldest daughter, who is 10 years old, is either the tallest or the second tallest in her class, while my youngest daughter, who is 6 years old, is the smallest.

My eldest daughter used to always hold my hand while walking, but recently she has started confidently walking ahead on her own. As for my youngest daughter, she insisted on buying two bags ...

TSURUNO-San

This is a sketch to clarify the image of the character Tsuruno, a girl who loves stationery and draws pictures, who appears in the next story "TOBIKOME!!NUMA!". 

I made many sketches like this to get the image in my mind. However, sometimes the image in my mind is more like the picture I have drawn.

　As I was drawing, I thought, "This looks like  Pochiyama-San from ...

Is it June already ......

　It is June in the blink of an eye. Time flies by so fast.

This is a circle cutout of Comitia.

I'm drawing a new character who is going to be in the next volume of "Numa"! This is a new character I'm planning to publish in the next volume of Numa.

　As I talk a little about in the YouTube video I will be releasing, until now, Senpai and Junpai-kun have not been much, or at all, interested in improving their photographic skills.

　I think it's because the...

A little doodle

It has been more than 30 years since I started painting. I was influenced by various artists and wondered if I could bring out the feeling I had when I was 20 years old, when I was searching for my own style.

I don't think my style has changed that much, but in fact it has changed quite a bit. But I don't realize it well, and I think that is because I am not able to look at my own pictures objectively.

I have been thinking for 30 years that I should look at my paintings as if they...

Bungu-chan Logo("Bungu" means stationery.)

I am currently uploading videos about stationery and writing materials every day on my YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/abflygm

　Thumbnail images are important for YouTube videos, but I'm not good with flashy colors, so I'm having trouble making them look crisp and clear.

　I thought it would be nice to have an icon that would be instantly recognizable as my video, so I made an ...

From the recent pages of my notebook

I have recently become a total stationery geek. Now I enjoy writing something in my notebook. I was planning to upload some interesting drawings here when I get around to it, but time has passed while I've been making videos introducing the pens I use and other things I use. So I'll try to upload it little by little.

This is a drawing of a mushroom house that I uploaded on Instagram and other p...

Recent line drawings

　This is a recent drawing. I drew this picture for Comitia. It turned out to be a little different from what I had in mind, so I erased it and redrew it, so this is the only line drawing I have of it.

　I will have an opportunity to show you the finished version soon, so I think it will be interesting to compare it with this picture and see how it has changed.

　Recently, I have been wasting a lot of time drawing, fixing, and repeating endlessly, because ...

Thinking of a character for the thumbnail of the stationery materials video.

BUNGU-CHAN?

BUNGU means stationery in Japanese.

悩んでいたら、長女が手帳を覗き込んで、髪留めに手帳の形のアクセサリーをつけたら？というのでつける。

When I was struggling with this, my oldest daughter looked at my notebook and said, "Why don't you put an accessory in the shape of a notebook in your hair clip?" So I put it on.

Notebooks, fountain pens, and balloon note.

 recently started blogging again.

https://abeyoshitoshi.com

　It all started when I realized that I had never been particular about my art materials, so I started buying mechanical pencils to try different kinds of art materials.

　Then I became interested in notebooks, and I put one foot in a fountain pen swamp, which I shouldn't have fallen into, and when I tried to pull my foot ...

daily 2023-03-08

　Recently, I started to get into art supplies and decided to try using a good mechanical pencil, but then I realized that I am very interested in notebooks, and for some reason I bought a lot of cheap fountain pens, and then I momentarily lost my mind and realized that colorful ink bottles have started growing on my shelves like mushrooms in a gnarled shape. Or rather, I am buying more shelves to put stationery on. It's a swamp! I'm scared!

So, I tested penmanship with a fo...

The Doujinshi has been submitted.

いやー疲れました。割増料金で、早めに発送できるように手配しましたが、間に合うかなあ…。

今回の新刊は2年半ぶりの『飛びこめ！！沼 新しい沼編 05』です。前回は、YouTuber目指して動画を撮って、編集へ……というところでしたが、ちょっと時間が経ってしまったので、作中でもちょっと時間が経ったエピソードにしました。

入稿してから気づきました�...

work log 2022-12-11

It is difficult for me to write about my work for commercial magazines and the work I am currently doing here due to confidentiality obligations, but it is nice to be able to post the progress of my work for doujinshi.

The cover, this is for the work done on December 10. The position of the hands has changed.

When I raise my arms, it looks like I'm shrugging my neck, so I'm considering adjusting the position of my neck or fixing my shoulders.

Translated with www.D...

I am now preparing for Comiket.

Work is winding down and I'm preparing for Comiket in between my next job.

The new book will be "TOBIKOME NUMA 05," but I am not sure if I will be able to make it in time. ......

This is a rough cover. It is a little different from the previous covers. If I change the atmosphere, the senpai won't look like senpai. ...... The character of senpai is characterized by a bush glare, shaggy hair, and a slightly hunched back, but the composition and facial expression don't show those cha...

diary 2022-11-12

Sorry for the interval again. Sorry about that. I've been extremely busy. But I can't tell you what I am doing yet.

In parallel with the work I can't talk about, I've been drawing manga for the first time in a while. It's about early autumn when there is still lingering summer heat, but it looks like it's going to be winter. ......

As I mentioned on YouTube, I was hospitalized in an emergency because I got a little dizzy and nauseous. Fortunately, there was n...

Circle cutout for the next Comiket

I drew a black-and-white bi-level illustration for a T-shirt design for Mandara the other day, and it was unexpectedly fun, so I decided to make the circle cut black-and-white as well. I would like to explore a way of drawing that expresses shapes more with changes in lightness and darkness and less with outlines.

この間まんだらけのTシャツデザインで、モノクロ2値のイラストを描いたのですが、思いのほか楽しかったので、サークル...