Create Every Week #4 - Blow Fish Party

I admit it, I have been slacking off on the creativity side but I did have a play around the other day with this.

I am hoping to up my "kawaii illustrations" game so I decided to combine different expressions with blowfish (fugu as it is known in Japan).

I'll probably paint it with water colours but upload and clean it up a bit so I can play around with digital painting too.

I have been using this book: Kawaii: How to draw really cute stuff as a reference book. Which I'm really enjoying, Ebi-kun too. It has step-by-step instructions for drawing all kinds of things from people to transport to buildings, and how to kawaiify them.

Obviously in Japan everything is kawaii, they have a knack of making everything cute—which other nation would come up with a cute poop emoji? I rest my case.
All the prefectures have their own cute mascots, we have a pigeon. I know right, of all the creatures they pick a bloody pigeon!

But it doesn't stop there: supermarkets, hospitals, schools, even prisons have mascots too—it's a HUGE business. One thing that surprised me when I first came over to Japan was seeing full-grown men with cute mascot pens, keychains, and the suchlike. After being here so long it all seems perfectly normal.

So... what have you been creating this week?

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