Digital picture books

I happened to know digital picture books today.

What is digital picture book?
It is literally digital picture book which you can read
on the internet.

what you have to do is only click a page with a mouse
instead of tuening over pages by your hand.

check it and see what digital picture books exactly is
from here if you want.
http://contents.kids.yahoo.co.jp/picturebooks/story/bookshelf/index.html

Unfortunetaly it is written in Japanese
but I'm sure you have no difficulity to find where you should click
to see digital picturebook once you open the link.

and the interesting point about this digital book is
that the story is fixed by a vote.

I couldn't find enough information about it but
perhaps it is like "picture book wikipedia"
which you can change how the story is going on
in picture books.

Moreover if the picture book
turn to be a digital one, some good point will come up.

For example,
Children can read picture books seeing the pictures moving.
yes, it is animation.
Characters in pictue books may twincle their eyes or drop tears
in the display of computer.
even you can hear music with reading.
that is what we couldn't make in papaer picture books.


It seems children or the parents now have plenty of
choices for good picture books.

And also for authours of picture books,
they had wider place to show their works
not only papar books in the book stores,
but also digital ones online.

anyway,
I felt now new generation is really
different from my generation when I take only a
part of current picture book situation.

I never read a picture book online!
mine was always in the shelf near the bed
and my mother told me a story before sleeping!

oh, future situation about reading a book for kids
will be like this?

”mam, can read a picture book?”
→①”Of couse, just wait in front of the computer, i'll come to you soon”
→②”you can hear narrarition without mam”

??

second one shouldn't be happened I think.

first one....
Do we have to put the laptop next to the bed insted of a book shelf??

I guess even if the style of picturebook changes,
the nature of picture book won't be change.

who are you?! from a pan??

My original version part4!
pencil

love my bear

From my imagination, third trial.
pencil

sleeping boy

This is a second trial to draw only with my imagination.

It seems that I like to draw something sleepy thesedays.
Recently, I aimed to know how to draw fabrics.

I don't think I completely understand how to draw it
but I partly knew how I can develop more a skill to draw it.

and what I have to do is changing the aim.
as far as I know, I 'm terrible to draw whole body of human
without any model picture.

If a face turn to a direction,
where arms should be? how about right arm
and left arm?

and If the right arm attach to a body in certain place,
how about the five fingers of the right arm?

if a hand grips something,
how the fingers look like?
and from where I suppose to watch it?

nnn.....long way to be a good drawer(again;))....!
Once I started to practice drawing,
I got to know how difficult it is more than before.


How long does it take to see a picture book in which both a story
and pictures are all made by me......!!
uuuu.....!!

Good luck miki!!
No time for complaining!
keep smailing and enjoy my work!

Feel sleepy

pencil

A crane

Drawing paper craft.

pencil

noughty alphabet 2

ink pen, color pencil

noughty alphabet 1

ink pen, color pencil

A dog with a white hat

I painted this also 1 or 2 years ago.
ink pen, crayon

A man with jacket

I painted this almost 1 or 2 year ago.
I don't remember exactly...

ink pen, crayon

What is a good painter?

The important thing is
how people feel when they see a picture.

It doesn't matter whether
a painter has good skill of drawing or not.

Sometimes children,
who know nothing about how to draw pictures,
draw really good one.

Good skill? So what?

There is something more than any skills.
This something may not be able to be explained
and analyzed totally.

Of course it doen't mean I can be lazy to
practice drawing.......ha!

A dog standing by the house

pencil, color pencile

a woman with draped dress

This is a first trial to draw something without any model picture.

here, now I notice that
I see unnatural aorond the second layer of the dress.
it should be waving along to how the first layser waves.
nnn....
long way to be a master of drawing!!;))

young adult

It took around 30-40 minuites to draw this picrture.
Again I was drawing during a lesson...
of course no problem about writing down what a teacher said...........;)))))maybe!

Recently I feel that it became easier to see the difference
between shadow and lighted parts in fabric.

In the picture, you can't see what the inside of a cloth is
but in fact there should be arms or body.

Then if the marterial of fabric is soft,
the shapes of human body can be recognised easily.
And in fabric the way of waving will be change along to it.

here, the cloth which a boy wears
doesn't look like so soft material, rather the size seems to be
too big for him.

I tried to draw a picture imaging his body is inside of the cloth.
it was helpfull for me at least to think about that
that is a fabric which is worn by a boy, not just faric.

I think it is important to think like this
this kind of idea will be effective to draw better pictures
even if it look no direct connection to drawing pictures better.

Pencil

guess

It turned to be something for small kids.

Recently I'm thinking about making a
story for children.



I found a oppotunity to applay my work.

The deadline will be January.


I have enough time to preapare for submit it.

It'll be first trial.


For me the important thing will be to know how to
build a story or how I can feel while creating it.


When I make a story,

It'll be good to try to imagine
being a mother who read a picture book
for her kids before they go to bed.
as everyone has this kinds of experience in childhood.



and I think it will be nice as well
if the story I make can be a present
for my future children.




ink pen(black), color pencil

Fabric

Recently my concern is how to draw fablic.
I see a improvement more or less
from my previous posting.
(a girl sitting on the floor)

but still some part is too dark.
it is important to give a strong contrast that
would be a base of width for expression.

but only innatural way, the contrast can be
looked effective.

and even here,
the fablic seems to be hard material especially
if you look around the right under part of fabric.

In fact this fabric is a kind of bed sheets which shouldn't
be so hard if it's not too starched!

In future I really want to draw what i want
without seeing any sample or model.

Now still I highly need to see real object.
Oneday Ｉ ｗｉｌｌ make it.
when?!

Colorful face

Nobody may recognize a model of this pciture.

She is a hot actress .

but actually for me, i don't care she is hot or not.

i felt good if i met a picture which i feel like to copy

or draw it. and I was simply enjoying color it

without thinking.

there is no intention in this picture. I didn't think how

the shadow or where the lighted parts are in the face.

no thinking, no theory, no reality.

"Draw what I want, Paint as I like".

it was a phrase if there was only thing

I was thinking during working on this picture,

as far as I remember.

ink pen (blue),crayon

A girl sitting on the floor

I draw this picture during a class today
cause the lesson was boring.....

I copy this picture from a textbook
writing note on the blackboad.

What I knew was a difficulity to draw the difference
between two colors when i can use only black color.

then ihad to know the tone of the color.
here, you can't see the diffrence.
Actually i wanted to distinguish two colors
which are white and dark pink in colorful version
of this picture.

and still i see the unnatural in the girls cloth.
How it waves.

there is only ONE solution here.


"PRACTICE"

Persimmon

4B pencil

It was difficult to draw around leaves
shrinking on the top of a fruit.

It had better use much pointed pencil as well as

the pencil which i used this time.

It makes easier to draw detailed shape.

Playing

inkpen, water color, color pen
tool:sponge

Alan Greenspan

I 've heard the name of " Alan Greenspan" when I took
the course of bussiness interpreter in first semester.
Teacher of the course told us "Greenspan is a name which is worth to rememer"


And today I knew the news that a teacher of my translation class
will publish a book about Greenspan.
The original version is of course written by Greenspan himself in English.
so my teacher Mr. Yamaoka translated it into Japanese.

He informed it at the end of class.
and also he added that the book he translated haven't been found in any
book store yet. he just brought a sample of the book in the class.

I felt like trying to read it because
I am simply interested in the contents of the book and
my teacher who are tolerant enough to allow my delayed assignment.....
no, no, ...who is in the top of the field of translation about Economics.

Japanese
http://www.amazon.co.jp/波乱の時代-上-アラン-グリーンスパン/dp/4532352851
English(original)
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Age-Turbulence-Alan-Greenspan/dp/0143142593/ref=pd_sim_fb_shvl_title_1/249-4226634-7788323

After the class I handed in my assignment abd talked to the teacher
that when we can get the book in the book store.
then, I didn't expect it,
he suggested me to take and read the sample he brought.
now to my surprise I will be almost the first reader of unpublished book.

The title of book is haran no jidai in Japanese.
I'm worry about my knowledge of Economics to read the book.
Too much technical terms can easily make me get tired of reading!
but anyway the book looks like biography. it won't so difficult,i hope.

pottery

charcoal

Boy,what do you want to do?

something

ink pen