New illustration added on my website

As the title says!

Including Nirvana (the image below) which is one of the illustrations displaying at Yolanta hair and beauty salon in Mayfair. You can see all the new work here!

I also am experiencing with typography for making greeting cards, I wonder if you like the line at all...?

and I made a fan page of Illustration Rally on facebook as well, pretty active, ain't I?

Please become a fan of Illustration Rally! I promise you I won't let you down. :)

Featured in Computer Arts Magazine!

Here is wicked news! My work is in this month's Computer Arts Magazine as part of Japan feature! Unfortunately, my name got spelt wrong (Natsuki Osani, it says) and there was almost no-one called by that name on the internet so anyone who's interested in my work because of the article will never find me really.

My name is Natsuki Otani, not Natsuki Osani, I'm just writing this with a little hope that this blog post will give people a chance to reach to my website if there are any! If you are the one who's interested in my illustration and couldn't find my website, the link is below! :D

http://www.natsukiotani.co.uk/

Still, I'm really really happy about this, this is the first time my work ever appeared in such a major magazine. All the Japanese artists in the article are so talented and big names, (I'm not nearly good enough to be next to them honestly) you should keep an eye on those guys!

Shinnoske Sugisaki

Kamikene

Daijiro Ohara

Loworks

Kahori Maki

Heisuke Kitazawa

In the end, a big thank you to Nick Carson for such a wonderful feature.

Secret Places

I have done a collaboration with Urban Outfitter x Society6, yes! This is called "Hideaway Love", I created this for the theme "Secret Places", this is an incredibly girly and romantic picture, I felt so womanly I must admit.

You can buy art print, iphone cover and laptop skin here!

Illustration Rally

I have another blog called Illustration Rally which is the blog that has illustrators from all over the world rallying with their lovely drawings, it's just like inky tennis!

I started this blog with Joanne Young originally as a personal project but now it's open to anyone else! With the alphabet theme, we have people helping us up to Z already but we are planning to carry on the project with different themes such as numbers, months, horoscopes, etc!

Here are some awesome illos contributed to Illustration Rally,

Ediot by James Baker

Gaga Ooh la la by Tom Colmans

Heartbroken by Tigz Rice

I SPY. by Ian Caulkett

Have you heard of Pornsaints?

A little while ago, I was contacted by Francesco D'Isa who is the Pornpope! (One of the coolest titles I've ever heard!) He runs a site called Pornsaints (contains pornographic images) which is an erotic themed arts site, and he asked me to become a Pornbishop which sounded kinda fun and scary, but if you visit their site the quality of art you can see there is wonderful so I thought why not try this. Plus, I can't say I've never drawn pornographic style illustration before.

Here is my portrait of Miss Panic, she was really sweet on her email and I was delighted to hear that she loved my illustration. My work will be up there at some point soon but I was allowed to upload the image on my blog, hope you enjoy this!

Icelandic Music

It's such a lovely Sunday so I finally decided to update my blog!

Here are some contributions for The 405 which describe themselves as "an online Music/Art/Film magazine packed with the latest reviews, interviews, news, mixtapes, features & much more. Since being formed in the spring of 2008, The 405 has built up an army of fans, put on some gigs and generally had an amazing time doing so."

Sounds nice, doesn't it? So why not check them out.

I've never heard of Seabear before, but I actually absolutely adore their music, it goes perfectly well with a peaceful Sunday, take that!

Lesley Barnes Bookmark

I got lovely bookmarks from a wonderful animator/illustrator Lesley Barnes last week,

it was originally bought as a Valentine's day gift but Royal mail didn't deliver it successfully at the first time so she kindly sent me another one of her bookmarks for me too!

After getting these lovely gifts, I was suddenly in a mood for making something hand made by myself. So let's do origami since I'm a totally Japanese, this is a dodecahedron origami I made!