Let’s feel the spring breeze (about a museum trip with my grandma)

Hello, spring has come.

I spotted a cluster of pink flowers and tulips on the way back from grocery shopping.
Spring always lights up my heart.

My first museum visit was also one of grandma’s first attempts at taking her grandkid, me, to Tokyo.
We lived in Yokohama, a suburban city, and my grandma prepared thoroughly so that I didn’t get kidnapped.
She told me to never let go of her hand, which I thought troublesome.
(I’m grateful, but my grandma’s over prudence then makes me smile now because I know this area is one of Tokyo’s highest security areas.)

My first museum visit was also one of grandma’s first attempts at taking her grandkid, me, to Tokyo.
We lived in Yokohama, a suburban city, and my grandma prepared thoroughly so that I didn’t get kidnapped.
She told me to never let go of her hand, which I thought troublesome.
(I’m grateful, but my grandma’s over prudence then makes me smile now because I know this area is one of Tokyo’s highest security areas.)

At the exhibition, Tezuka’s original drawings blew my mind.
I thought a manga master, like Tezuka, effortlessly drew and created his works.
I never expected to see his passion and struggle to draw.
His manga drawings were not flat on one piece of paper—they looked like paper collages.
I could see the layers of paper cut and pasted on top of each other to get the right composition.
Some parts of the ink were thick, like an oil painting, to express the rain and snow.
The energy coming from those original works was so intense that I felt Tezuka and his team’s energy right there.
I never thought that manga, which I read just for fun, was created with such energy.
I didn’t know what to expect in the museum, so I had low (no) expectations for the exhibition, but it turned out that the experience still lives vividly within me.
To this day, I can remember the electrifying sensation of Osamu’s passion through his drawings.
From this experience, I’m more excited to see hand-drawn original works than digital works.
I enjoy studying the surface and feeling the artist’s passion through paintings, which no screen or monitor can show and display.
I have been working as a graphic designer, and Adobe software is my work buddy, but I chose watercolor for my passion project.
I also pay extra attention to my energy because it is translated to you through paint and paper.

Treat yourself and give an opportunity to enjoy the dynamite combo of with Manga and museums in Tokyo.


Have you seen a original of manga drawings on paper?

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