Egaki

Sketches/Comic diary in English and Japanese

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Moved!

I decided to keep this tumblr up (but now i've changed the name to egakiold), and reblog all of my old stuff into my new and improved drawing blog that's connected to my main account. From now on I'll be posting in there so please add that one instead!

--> www.egaki.tumblr.com <--

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moving(?)

I realized how incredibly inconvenient it is to log in and out of two accounts just so I can post pictures so I'm seriously considering consolidating egaki into my main tumblr account. However, that probably means I'm going to have to either delete this one so I can use the name or I'll have to come up with another short and clever username.

Should I just make another one and keep this one up as archives? Or should I just delete this one and move everything over to the new account? I really don't know how to internet anymore.

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(10) CLAMP

Good old 90s CLAMP. One thing I learned while dusting off my old X/1999 art book is that even though old clamp had an "interesting" take on anatomy and although everyone was wearing high-waisted shorts and XL crop tops (w/e that's totally coming back), the one thing that still is amazing about CLAMP is their design sense and how they managed to create almost realistic rending of fabric/texture with just copic markers. 

This is technically supposed to be Mort, but like all CLAMP protagonists, he just ends up looking like Kamui.

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(1) Base style

This is a pretty sorry excuse for a drawing because I drew it in a few seconds, but I figured I had enough stuff on here to establish a base style anyway.

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Day 18 of 30 day drawing challenge: just a doodle

Tiger and Bunny is probably the best show of the season and Sky High is my favorite hero. SKY HIIIIIGH.

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Day 17 of 30 day drawing challenge: favorite flower

I love me some rose but recently I've been really into tsubaki products.  椿って渋くて円やかな香りでいい。 

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Day 16 of 30 day drawing challenge: inspiration

Pardon the gloom and doom, I drew this while suffering from having my wisdom teeth taken out and not enough pain medication.

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goodharo:

First in a series of level-up challenges. Will egaki and I actually follow through with it this time? lol.

とりあえず頑張りましょう？＿φ(￣ー￣ )

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So, I made a one-shot with two of my friends. I did the shitagaki, story, and layout; Annie did the inking and tightened up the dialogue; and Tiva helped me with the shiage. We kind of rushed things on it so it doesn't look that great (especially towards the end lol). This is probably only my second time typesetting with photoshop so please excuse poor choices in font/bad spacing/etc. It's weird translating your own comic into English, so I took some artistic liberties/didn't translate sound effects. I'll post the Japanese version later on.

Click the title page to download the comic from mediafire. 

Please tell me what you guys think/show other people. I have a general idea of what's horribly wrong with it but feedback is always welcome.

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かなり古いものだけど、やっぱり絵修行必要かな。 もうちょっとGぺんをうまく使えるように頑張ります。 This is quite old but I liked how the girl with white hair looks.

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Back from Tokyo.

Will be posting up the comic we mochikomi'd to Jump and I'll probably start posting up drawings again. I am terrible at scanalating comics because I think I'm extra derp at lettering, but I'll try to get Vilains up at some point this weekend. 

Paradoxically, it's harder to translate your own comics into English than it is to translate someone else's work.

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How much time have you spent in Japan in total? I cant help but be impressed when Americans become fluent in another language when learned as an adult (especially when it's not a romance or germanic language). Or did you begin your study of Japanese at a young age?

I guess if you add all the time together it would probably come out to only about a year and a half or so? I've been able to go to Japan at least once a year since freshman year of undergrad so it seems longer. I "self studied" (read: learned hiragana and katakana and somehow got it in my head that I knew much more than that) in high school but I didn't really formally start learning until college. They tell you that Japanese requires the most effort to learn if your native language is English (and I believe it), but I think I was able to pick it up pretty quickly because (1) I'm a nerd for it and (2) I tried to pseudo-immerse myself even back in the states. I'm still not satisfied with how much I know, though :/

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Hello everyone, I know I haven't been very active lately, but please check out my travel blog/site that I'll be posting to for the next month. I'll be in Japan working on a very special project so needless to say, this tumblog will be on hiatus for a while. 

Feel free to drop me a line if you have a particular place you'd like us to check out and report back to you on. All I can say now is that so far we're planning on seeing the Takarazuka play about Ishida Mitsunari, the Sengoku Basara movie, various butler cafes, host clubs and the like.

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Kobayashi test sheet, now just the name left

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mort test sheet

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M test sheet

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now all i have to do is THE ENTIRE NAME AND SHITAGAKI. orz