Way back in another life I was an animator and unpublished manga artist. I didn’t work on anything I would brag about, mostly just garbage for TV. I gave that up many moons ago for various reasons and the last time I actually drew a picture was about 10 years ago when I was teaching English at a salon type school in Shinjuku.
All the teachers were required to design their own lessons and promote their own classes. We had to decide our “topics” and then write them down on these slips of colored paper, which would then be posted on a weekly schedule board for students to view and choose. I spent time drawing mine and then laminating them to be reusable. Some of my favorite ones were stolen right off the topic board! I was soo pissed. I have over 300 of these and am scanning all of them for the gallery. I don’t know when or if I will actually finish doing this but here’s a few as a preview. I’ll also be scanning some of my sketches from my manga days. A few more after the jump.
F* me, Roy! They are friggin’ good!
It’s funny that I’m still drawing and you’re not, since you were WAY better at it than me. :D
I’d really like to see some of your old manga stuff.
Great work! If you put it to print I think it would sell very well!
Wow, Great drawings and a great talent. I can’t even draw a line without a ruler. And that’s questionable if the paper is bigger than the ruler
I am going to guess that your classes were always full. And I can’t wait till you post the rest of your work[if you ever get to it]… Oh and is that Astro Boy on the tv in the 4th one?
Those look great! I’d like to pinch the whole lot from you and put them to use. ;-)
That’s far, far, far better than other posts…
No re-creation but CREATION! great work Roy!
Wow! Nice pictures.
Wow! なつかしいね～。
Roy!…
yes, you are gooood!…
what a pity… you should have had very good reasons to give up.
you don’t feel like still a pulsion inside you leading into drawings again?…
Very good drawings, you made me very curious about your manga work. I hope you’ll post the rest too!
Neat! I was wondering what your stuff looked like. Thanks again for the french curve!
I love topicslips08. So funny.
Thanks for the comments everyone! I hope you’ll enjoy the rest of them as I’m not enjoying the scanning. It’s going very slowly…