kabujiro

It’s mystery bag time, this time with a bunch of stationery items!

As you may have noticed, I’ve been moving Kabujiro more towards textile goods and accessories and slowly away from prints and stickers. Due to this, it’s time to run a clearance sale on a bunch of washi tape, notepad and sticker designs!

Grab them while they’re still available, as I won’t be restocking them anytime soon!

I’m back at the lovely in Munich this weekend, and can’t wait to see you all there!

After not getting in last year, I can’t wait to be back: find me in the dealer hall next to ✨

I’ll also be debuting a bit of a new setup thanks to , and I can’t wait to show you how they made my life a lot easier!!

It’s cherry blossom season!

And what better way to get into the seasonal mood than with this new ukiyo-e spring shirt!

It’s inspired by woodblock prints by Hiroshige, and I just love the way the design wraps around the body.

I’ve recently fallen in love with gouache painting, and since my work has become primarily digital, I’m so happy I’ve found a creative outlet that doesn’t include me staring at a screen all day.

I try to do one of these everyday to unwind from online shop / convention / design work, really embracing the messy brushstrokes and thick layers of paint.

It’s already time for Leipzig Book Fair • Manga Comic Con this year! It really does creep up on you every year, I should start packing but instead I spent a few hours making this catalog post.

Happy my laptop could handle all 300 layers used here haha… now I just need to figure out if I can fit everything I need in my booth as well

•Overgrown Shrine•

New illustration featuring one of my favourite things to paint: tanuki statues! I must admit, I put this piece aside for a while in the lineart stage because I got exhausted doing all of the bamboo and small leaves, but I’m happy it is finally done now!

Florals? In Spring? Groundbreaking!

My Ukiyo-e floral set is launching today, together with 30 other new enamel pin designs! The perfect valentine’s day gift, don’t you agree? 💐🌺🌸

There’s 3 peony colours, 2 different sakura pins (in gold and black plating each) and a bunch of other flowers too!

They’re based on the woodblock prints of Kono Bairei, who created amazing designs in the 1880s.

I’m launching T-shirts!

I’m so proud of these illustrations and designs! One of my goals this year was to create more traditional art / incorporate my brush skills into more of my final designs, and I think it worked really well here—

Which city is your favourite?

Will be up tomorrow together with all of my new enamel pin designs!

I’ve been busy!
I’m launching 4 new sets of enamel pins this Thursday, and here’s one or each—

The Yokai Parade will include 7 cute little creatures, two of which will glow in the dark!

We’re back with Volume two of the Ukiyo-e Birds Series, adding 7 new cute birds inspired by the woodblock prints if Kono Bairei to the mix

10 new floral pins as part of the Ukiyo-e Flowers set, in gold and black plating

And lastly 7 fruit designs inspired by Showa-era Japanese advertising and poster design.

Which set are you most excited for?

Red or Blue?

I need your help picking the background colour for my newest drawing… Personally I’m leaning towards the darker red, but somehow the light blue also pops really well〜

Let me know!

Birds are pretty cool, right?

I’ve been really enjoying painting these little birds based on woodblock prints by Kono Bairei from the 1880s.

I also still have very limited stock of the bird shirt left!

Here’s the full illustration of my floating ramen shop!

Really proud of this one, especially since I’ve always struggled to draw noodles well in the past and I think these turned out pretty all right! What do you think?