Tokyo Sketches
I recently found a pile of sketches that I drew when I was living in Tokyo. Back then I often doodled what I saw, perhaps because everything was so new to me and I had a lot of time on my hands, living...
View ArticleJapanglish & Englinese
These are some of the illustrations for an English Language text book for Japanese readers. I drew them many years ago while I was working and living in Japan. In the early months, my income was mainly...
View ArticleUeno Ape House
I’m still scanning and archiving lots of old 1980s travel sketchbooks and doodles. Here are some of my very rare life-drawings, done on a cold Japanese winter’s day in 1987 at Tokyo’s UENO ZOO. The...
View ArticleMore Tokyo Sketches
Some more drawings from a old stash of travel sketches. These are from Japan, 1987. When I did these, I’d not been in Japan long, having just got off the ferry from Taiwan (via Okinawa) where I had...
View ArticleCar Show
More from the archive; a magazine illustration done while living in JAPAN, for a story about the TOKYO CAR SHOW (in ball-point pen and water colour). The article claimed that the prestigious CAR OF THE...
View ArticleRighteous ‘roid Rampage
Here’s an old doodle of SLY STALLONE; expressing his feelings, mid-1980s style. test illustration of Sylvester Stallone, for Tokyo Journal
View ArticleSLY is still upset…
With his typical eloquence, SLY STALLONE raises a lot of valid points… a test illustration of Sylvester Stallone, done when illustrating in tokyo
View ArticlePopeye Magazine
In 1988 I was living and working in Tokyo, and I had a few steady illustration gigs to supplement my other jobs, which were some English teaching when I first arrived in Japan, and then working at TOEI...
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