Waterdroplet's Blog: Strange...

It seems as though not many people liked broiled fish- especially those people in the US or Europe. I wonder why :D

haha cultural shock- I guess.

People like whole fish as a whole in Japan after all.

Anyway, I'm currently working on next two wallpapers at the moment. I got a full schedule until six months later so it's being worked on slowly.

It seems as though SciFi drawing I was planning to create is not turning out that way but more like a modern piece of art. I might switch the order of wallpaper categories I declared earlier.

peek-a-boo:

I am using IllustStudio, Photoshop, ComicStudio, Cinema 4D and gosh... I use a huge amount of softwares at the same time. It's just that I didn't have IllustStudio when I started creating this piece that I drew line art in Comic Studio. Then, I still didn't know how to shade hair in IllustStudio so I used Photoshop. Cinema 4D is for 3D CG I'm currently creating at the moment.

Wips of Nature themed wallpaper I'm working on (which will be released after one above):
I changed from my gray to color painting style to color it in abstract style I saw people using in some places. For this piece, I want to create more depth to the piece than those I did before by using different color temperature and saturation of colors instead of making it blurred like I did before.

I decided to add something I imagined a few days prior:

and didn't like it so I changed its shape:

still didn't like it so I changed it to:

and decided that it still sucked so I started painting random stuff:

and still continued...

IllustStudio 1.0.10

Photos from the weekend when I went to Ako （赤穂） for oysters :D

Photos were taken with Lumix TZ-7 and edited with Photoshop CS3. I edited out faces of people to protect their privacy.

Ako is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, famous for salt production and Ako Ronin.

1 for 100 yen=$1.12 (today's exchange rate)

Five BBQ oysters (500 yen)

They are cheap since it was eaten outside of the fishery place- right out from the bay.

The photo is kind a crooked since I pieced together two photos and would miss the details if I cut them properly:

This place had a fishermen taking out oysters from their shells. Oysters were probably from oyster farms in bay.

Tanks in other places had scallops, crabs, and more oysters.

This shop sold fried octopus on a stick (200 yen), oyster clear soup with noodles (300 yen), fried oysters (3oo yen per stick), BBQ scallops (300 yen?), and BBQ oysters (100 yen each).

This was how oysters were BBQ (I asked for permission before taking this photo):

And... ta-dah!

They were yummmmmmmmyyyyy!!!

After oysters were taken out from their shells, shells were dumped by:

for fertilizer or something?

Anyway, after eating BBQ oysters, I went to a place called Umi no eki (海の駅） (Sea station) right nearby to eat more.

I was really tempted by this sign at the bottom, which basicalled said, "Oppai yaki" (Oppai- slang for boob and yaki is stuff that's usually cooked on a hot metal plate or frying pans)