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 and a reference book. Which I'm really enjoying, Ebi-kun too. It has step by step 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 prisions 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, key-chains and the such like. After being here so long it all seems perfectly normal.

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

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Japanese Toast Toppers

One thing I will never get bored of is the packaging in Japan. They really know how to do cute and ridiculous well!

I spotted these in the supermarket the other day, the whole display was a 10 for cuteness.

Form what I can workout (I didn't get sucked into buying any!) they are toppings for your toast.

Each animal has its own topping, so there is cinnamon, chocolate, caramel and garlic and numerous other flavours too. Whether this will last as a product we will have to wait and see but I tend to think that it will be one of those fad things that disappears as quickly as it appeared. 

If you are ever in Japan and think to yourself 'Oh, I should try that' DO IT STRAIGHT AWAY, I can't tell you the amount of times I have gone back a week later and the new exciting product has disappeared, never to be seen again!

And if you have tried these, let me know how it was!