2012 - Dragon

明けましておめでとうございます。
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

今年もよろしくお願いします。

小路真琴
 love Makoto

Mega Man Tribute Art Book Premier: Yoroshikudesu :D

Hello!

Earlier this year I drew these two illustrations to celebrate Capcom's own Mega Man's birthday.

Mega man too was born in 1987 the year of the Rabbit :)

I am really happy that I could contribute as I have fond childhood memories of playing Rock Man or more so watching my brother play, as I never got that far.

When I showed this to my brother and his reaction was :

"..... that has nothing to do with Rock Man."

M: "I didn't draw Rock Man... but I drew Cut man!! and Roll and Rock Man is in the doily lace see?! :D... "

Brother: "..."

M: "...."

I love you brother :D !!!!

Also here is the second one. My take on Splash Woman the robotic mermaid songstress with helmet off. (As I have never seen her with out it :D)

Anyway enough from me and here is some infos :

MEGA MAN TRIBUTE LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER

-the book is premiering at the San Diego Comic-con at the UDON booth (#5037), July 20-24

-for fans not attending the show, you can preorder the book at UDONstore.com (http://www.udonstore.com/Mega-Man-Tribute-HC-Udon-Store-Exclusive-p/mega-man-tribute-exclusive-hc.htm )

MEGA MAN TRIBUTE SOFTCOVER

- The standard softcover edition is also available for preorder on amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1926778308?tag=udoent-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1926778308&adid=0DS0GBZB0YWZK4H62YZM&)

I can't wait to see what's inside myself :D

xx

2011 year of the Rabbit, Samurai Heart; Hope for Japan Sneaker design

Hello and hisashiburi,

I can't believe it is already July. My last post was a Christmas post! I've missed you! *Leap hug*

2011 is the year of the rabbit, the same as 1987 the year I was born in.

Chinese zodiac may not mean much here in Australia, but personally I was jumping around and ready to soak up this once in a 12 year occasion. ... not sure how, but I was excited.

Here is a quick dribble scribble of how 2011 started off for me.

Ironically these events became inspiration. The strength displayed by the people who were affected and how people around the world worked as one to aid these areas.

At the time, Foot Locker was holding a sneaker art competition, so I tried to channel some of that inspiration and contribute. Here is my entry, Samurai Heart: Hope for Japan design.

In other news, I have received an art grant to start a personal project. I'll be starting it next week! More about it soon :)

Hope everyone is well!!

xxoo Makoto

Merry Kurisumasu!

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone is having a great holiday :D

It's a bit late, but here is a Christmas E-card animation I did for Copyright Agency Limited.

This project was heaps of fun to work on and once again a big thank you to Mr Luke Jurevishus :) Enjoy!

http://www.copyright.com.au/xmas2010/

xoxo Makoto

Melbs : Semi P, Tim B and Macarons

Hi blog,

Wow, I didn't even realise but it has been some time...
Adelaide is finally... FINALLY shedding it's winter coat and feeling a little bit of that sunshine.
Now I can start crawling out of hibernation for soon-to-be ice-cream season :)

Currently doing an illustration gig, which has been a wonderful experience.
Hopefully I will be able to put up some samples when some time passes.

I recently did a trip to Melbourne for Semi-P and Tim Burton exhibition and I also got to catch up with some awesome pe-po. ;) While we were there we also discovered the Lindt cafe which I highly recommend to any chocolate/cake/macaron lover. The trip was a fantastic way to feel inspired, refreshed and macaron content.

Here is my contribution to the ACMI Tim Burton exhibition :)


... and Final <3



xoxo Makoto

Happy Summer Wedding <3

Hallo~ Blog >v<

While I was up in Brisbane I went to a friend's wedding :) She was the first out of my friends to get married. It was an extravagant wedding; cultural fusion, beautiful bride, dashing groom, beautiful flower arrangements (by the bride herself), seafood buffet >v<, cake buffet, and I am so glad I was able to be a part of this momentous occasion.

She is an intelligent, beautiful, unique and vibrant person who constantly inspires me.
So I made her this :)

(Manga ink illustration with water colours and water colour pencils <3 )


It didn't compare to the bride herself, but I hope you both stay happy forever <3

xoxo Makoto

Happy new year of the tigerrrrrrrrr~!

Happy new year/ake-ome everyone!

Hope 2010 will be a great year for everyone :)
Kotoshi mo douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

xoxo Makoto

KITAAAAAA~! Darkstalkers tribute and tadaima :D

Hallo & Tadaima :>

Yay I'm back from Japan. It was a very awesome trip. It was only for 10 days this time, but it felt surprising long; like four weeks instead. It was with 7 other people, but they seemed to really enjoy it too. YAY! A whole lot of art book, animation book, clothes shopping, eating so on and so forth. But it was sad because no one joined me for some public bath action because no one was too keen on the idea. Boo~ Poo~ (Even though the group consisted of 6 guys and 2 girls; I wanted them to experience how good Japanese baths are. Ah well, I certainly enjoyed it on my own. Nyahahaaaaha)

On another note, my Darkstalkers Tribute book came (/T^T)/ !!!!
It's hard cover and everything *cries*
And yes, it is my first published artwork (>///<)
It's got a whole lot of amazing artwork and feel really honored to be a part of it.
I recommend it to any big Darkstalkers fans out there or even to anyone that loves vampirey, monstery stuff :) Totes worth it :)

I'm sure many of you have seen this already but I will put up the piece that got in :)


Hope everyone is having a pleasant weekend :)

xoxo

from the Makoto bunny

Star ☆ Collection and ittekimasu <3

Hi blogger world!

It has certainly been a while.

Things that have been different since the last blog posts, is that I am currently working as a 3D animator on the same project at Vishus. I am animating human characters, they are the most awesome rigs and finding everyday really fulfilling :D The voice actors are amazing so it really makes my job really fun and also a challenge to make them alive as their voices :) The project is coming along and I can't wait to see the finished product.

Illustration wise, I had a sudden thought and then it ended up being an illustration set.
So here it is:

Star ☆ Collection

Gingasei☆
(galaxy)

Amanogawa☆

(milky way)

Umeboshi☆
(plum star)

Nagareboshi☆
(shooting star) Konpeitou☆
(sugar star)

Umeboshi is actually the name of a pickled plum, but "boshi" also means star.
Sorry it's a sad pun.
Konpeitou is a star-shaped sugar sweet in Japan.

In other news; I fly to Melbourne this Wednesday then off to Japan.
I probably won't post until I get back, so ITTEKIMASU!
Everyone take care of Australia until we get back :)

xoxo Makoto

Panda ko mako PANDA ☆

Hello :)

Just a quick update. The commercial I was working on at the PRA; a while back now will be screening on TV from today. It's for the Adelaide airport; a campaign for the Panda's that are coming to Adelaide zoo. My role was animating Pandas! YAY! (I animated more but it had to get cut off so I hope I can put up a long version up in future :) ) Also did a lot of cleanup and shadow work on it.

I just came home from watching The Young Victoria at the cinemas :) It was light, pleasant and the production design was fantastic; made me want to draw princesses. Oh how I love period pieces ^^ Emily Blunt was really pretty, but Rupert Friend as Albert was prettier :) <3>

Adelaide Airport - Panda Venture from PRA on Vimeo.

Illustrustrations are on their way but for now
I'm going to go to bed. Oyasumi.

Makoto