February 18th, 2010
I wrote about Ponyo yesterday on The Eastern Edge yesterday and then watched it again last night after a 5k run.
Something about running on a cold night along a polluted river made me think again about how few things are handmade or done manually anymore, how we try to make everything comfortable and easy, and how cavalier we are about the damage our laziness causes.
I just felt like watching Ponyo again.
I’m all too aware that I’ll never ever get a job as an artist at Ghibli, but I couldn’t help but scrawl a quick Ponyo in my notebook before dashing out of the coffee shop this morning.
June 18th, 2009
100 Yen Comics features work from my 100 yen sketchbook, drawn with a 100 yen mechanical pencil and published via photograph by the worst mobile phone camera in Japan (yup, that would be iPhone).
I actually have a Wacom tablet & Comic Studio for my PC, but I’m still trying to get used to it in the limited time I’ve got to mess around on the PC at home. I need to get good so I don’t have to spend a lot of time doing comics because I don’t have much time, but I need to spend time I don’t have in order to get good so I don’t need as much time. Er, something like that.
I also don’t have a scanner, so scanning hand drawn strips and then brushing them up on the computer isn’t an option right now either.
The same time problem applies to this ComicPress software, which I desperately want to customize more, but can only do it piece by piece when I find the time. For that reason this site will slowly change over time until it someday stops looking like a fresh install.
In any case, the time-on-the-home-PC paradox has been keeping me from getting any comics done (as if I needed anymore excuses to not get things done), but my patience is wearing thin faster than I am progressing with my new toys. So, I’ve decided to start without them and become the lowest tech webcomic artist on the net.
Welcome to 100 Yen Comics.
I’ll be posting my first full 100 Yen strips soon.
