I was inspired by the large, double-pronged horns of the Noko Kuwagata (Japanese stag beetle), so you’ll see a lot of branching and twisting throughout the design.
Also, if you’re of the same kind as me, you’ll probably recognize that I added a bit of feathered dinosaur influence.

Ancient Creatures and Cats

Edo-period ukiyo-e **never featured dinosaurs or paleontology-related subjects**.Even the **brilliant, eccentric ukiyo-e artists** couldn’t conceive of anything from **160 million years ago**—it was simply outside the realm of their imagination.
But depending on how you look at it, this means we’re in a unique position to “re-experience” what they must have felt.
It’s like when they heard rumors that “There’s a giant striped cat on the continent!” and painted tigers based on that vague idea.
Now, I get to do the same—but with dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures.
While working on this, I found myself wanting to explore more subjects like this.

The Struggles of Making a Timelapse

I’ve always known this kind of artwork takes an immense amount of patience,
but every time I attempt to make a process video, even I find myself a little overwhelmed.
Procreate’s timelapse export records absolutely everything—
layer visibility, opacity adjustments, redo/undo actions—so it results in a flashing, chaotic mess of a video.
Naturally, since this piece required me to push my creative boundaries, the number of recorded actions was absurd.

A Happy New Year!
I painted Phoenix.
I drew in conscious of “contemporary composition using traditional color”.

Aspire of 2017

1, Studying Buddhist paintings.
2, Production of monochromatic art work that can be used for silk screen printing.
3, buy a personal computer for animation production.
4, look for a cool branchwood and stone for aquarium.

Thanks!

I drew a rough sketch of the mini phoenix.
The phoenix of the Japanese painting does not change very much from the Edo era. Read more

At first there is news.
I updated SHOP page. Fire pattern sticker of Japan ver.White is a shipment start at the end of August. Besides, I am making plural product pages now.
Then, I can purchase clothes and a case in Japan and want to do it.
My product sold well abroad this month last month.
As a result, I was able to make money in dollars.
However, a fee to change the dollar for Japanese yen was higher than expected.
It is still impossible.
In other words, I should do business in the same way in Japan.
Then it is the main subject from next.
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The FIFA WORLD CUP 2014 BRAZIL of Japan was over. Very very very sad ;(
Final whistle sounded, and this picture was completed in a few minutes.