The Face of saint02

Woshaaahhhh!!!!!!!  Better watch your back!  ( ^_- )  While I was applying for the Worldwide Otaku Report on dannychoo.com I decided to share some of the photos up here on my blog.  I'm a really big fan of anime and have somewhat of an Otaku lifestyle myself.  So, here's my room/studio where I get my creative mojo on.

Just got my new Tokidoki Inferno Hat to sport with my Skullcandy Tokidoki headphones.  I like wearing a bandana cowboy style.  It's nice to be a little different.

Spent a good amount of time putting the collage of anime/manga/j-rock posters and such on the wall.  When I'm not illustrating, I currently work in the plastic industry as a CNC Machinist.  The green florescent shelves are 9093 Acrylic for those of you who are interested.

These figures look so good on these shelves.  The shelves don't need to be back lit.  As long as there is a good amount of light in the room the shelves glow naturally.

Figures are very fun to collect, but hard to come by here in the states sometimes.  Especially, if you're trying to get a matching set of characters from a particular series. 

My room doubles as my studio which is packed full of reference material, two drafting tables, one desk for assembly work, a computer desk, and one sad small bed.

This is most of my manga, and a few classics.  I've been enjoying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes lately.

On top the black shelf at the top is a G.I.Joe collection I have been building the past couple years.  I'm not a fan of the movie based action figures, but I do like the original style action figures.  If you glance at the books on the shelves you'll notice several interesting things some of which are Japanese study guides.  Hopefully, someday I'll master the language, but for now I'm a humble beginner.

Being that I live in a rather small room, I've made a desperate attempt to make the room inspiring as it's my work place in working on various art projects.  So, I painted a character I found inspiring online on the wall.  The wall is pretty much a comic panel in pink and white.  On the drafting table is an illustration study from one of Akihiko Yoshida's illustrations from Vagrant Story, a PS1 game I'm a fan of.  The illustration was done in my own technique a mixed media drawing using pen, marker, colored pencil, and acrylic paint.

This is perhaps my favorite figure in my collection at the moment.  This is Yagyu Jyube from Hyakka Ryoran Samurai Girls.  This is the only Nendoroid I have, and most definitely would love having more.

When I get the chance, which isn't very often, I do enjoy competing in rc drift comps.  It's kind of a hobby of mine.  It's pretty fun.  I put some Blackrock Shooter graphics on the car.  As you can see it's been used, as it should be.  A drift car should have it's share of scratches, dings, and other sorts of damage. 

I've kept some of my Spawn toys since I was a kid.  It's a good way to keep inspiration up when thinking of new character designs and while brainstorming on storyboard projects.  I think I might want to get some monster sculptures.  I'd like to work on some monster projects :)

I just love these characters by Shunya Yamashita.  Quite sexy and the detail is just fabulous.  I think I may try my hand at sculpting myself at this sort of thing.  Can I do it?  ...Yes, but hopefully I can realize this level of skill.  Oh, to experience such a feeling of satisfaction of making something so skillful.

I enjoy small figures too.  I usually have these kind on my desk, but there's getting to be a lot of them now.

These are kind of rival figures in a way, Tokidoki and Kid Robot.  Up front are my Kid Robot Street Fighter designer toys, and the middle group are the cactus styled Tokidoki designer toys.