sharehouses

Animated illustration for Tofugu's article about Japanese sharehouses. Look at how excited the clouds are! :P You can read more about Japanese sharehouses here and download the hi-res version of the animated GIF and the wallpaper here and here.

beckoning cats

Animated illustration for an article about maneki neko on Tofugu. It's my first illustration for our new writer, Jordan too! I hope to make more awesome and animated art things for the articles he'll be writing for us. :) Bring luck to your desktop and download the wallpaper over here.

lights

Illustration for Tofugu about pachinko. Read about it here.

how do i even

Omg. I loved illustrating this. Capybaras + onsen = WHERE DOES ONE GO WRONG WITH THIS. Hashi is partly to blame, he got me all excited when he started writing the article about it in Tofugu. He sent me capybara photos for reference a few days ago, which lead me to Googling the creatures, and saving all the cutest capybara pictures I could find. This may not be as worse as my love for alpacas (and if you know me well, you know how crazy I get with alpacas), but I cannot deny how much I love them and how adorable they are. You can read about capybaras and save a super hi-res wallpaper of the above illustration over here at Tofugu! ♥

taiho jutsu

Animated illustration for an article in Tofugu about the Japanese police and the martial arts they practice. For some reason the two men in the middle reminds me of a fresh-faced policeman Akihiko (from P3/P) and a surprisingly young and yet still gruffy Ryotaro Dojima (from P4). I guess this is what happens when you go over Soejima's art books over and over and over again... You can read more about the whole thing here.

perspective

Animated illustration about Japanese documentaries for Tofugu. Read about it and watch the documentaries here.

locking horns

Animated illustration I made for a Tofugu article about bullfighting in Japan. You can view the hi-res version of this and read more about it here.

teen probz

Animated illustration on underage drinking & smoking in Japan for Tofugu. You can read the article and download the wallpaper of it here.

golden week

Animated version of the illustration I made about Golden Week for a Tofugu article. You can read about it here. Always a lot of fun doing these. :)

sometimes i cry because art

These may just be the greatest motivators I have at the moment. Been over Hellblazer and I'm just going through it over and over again for reference.

yer a gangster, harry

Illustration for Tofugu's Sunday News roundup. I turned Harry Potter into a member of the yakuza! Ain't that something? Read more about it here and view the super hi-res version of the illustration under the cut.

convenient censorship [nsfw]

It's three in the morning and I'm drawin' bewbs

trains

An animated illustration for a recent article on Tofugu about train safety in Japan. Read about it here.

ump bump

I drew a doodle of Kiyoshi Nakahata, the current Yokohama Baystars manager, bumping an ump (that resulted in his ejection), for my friend Dennis a few weeks ago. A few days ago, he came back after a game with this photo of him and Nakahata-san with the signed doodle! He told me Nakahata-san thought it was funny and was grinning throughout when he signed it. And now I can't stop grinning myself because this is amazing and kind of awesome.