May 23, 2025 | Making picture books
English日本語 A couple of weeks ago, I attended the second session of the 10-part Ahiru Picture Book Workshop at Nijino Picture Book Store in Tokyo. (Refer to the first session in my previous blog). The workshop focused on reading and critiquing each other’s 16-page...
Apr 24, 2025 | Making picture books
English日本語 This week, I attended the first of the 10 ahiru picture book workshop held at Nijino Picture book store in Tokyo. Face to face class of 14th term consisted of 5 students, 1 past student (who can join a class or two) and the instructor who has edited award...
Apr 4, 2025 | Making picture books, Work in progress
English日本語 In 2023, I created a trilingual picture book titled Pigeon, 鳩, Tauben in English, Japanese, and German. I used Procreate to digitally illustrate each page after sketching pigeons by hand. Since then, I’ve shared the book with two publishers and several...
Sep 19, 2024 | Making picture books
Since my first nephew was born nearly 5 years ago, I have been making a trilingual picture book for them every birthday. It started with “Avocado and Tomato” picture book because I had something that I wanted to share with my nephew (and many other mixed...