Finding a reliable life drawing model is a game changer.

Comics are still happening. I can’t share much because it’s all spoilers, but I can share this beautiful empty background.

I love Taiyaki popup day.

Wellington! I’ve been working on something cool with a couple of lovely collaborators. Good Luck Craft Club is a monthly craft meetup for artists of Asian descent in the Wellington region. Central CBD locations, ticketed workshops, BYOC(bring your own craft) and a community craft box.

The kid and I enjoyed this graphic novel by @jemyoshioka.bsky.social a lot. Can’t wait for book 2 👏🏽

Look! Look! @ninjakitty.bsky.social @eloquentsonia.bsky.social

It's been hard to keep this under wraps. deadline.com/2026/01/lore...

明けましておめでとう！ I have a tradition of spending New Year’s Day drawing the zodiac animal of the incoming year. This year’s the fire horse! 🔥🐎 The flames gave me a lot of trouble but I’m happy with how they turned out.

明けましておめでとう！ I have a tradition of spending New Year’s Day drawing the zodiac animal of the incoming year. This year’s the fire horse! 🔥🐎 The flames gave me a lot of trouble but I’m happy with how they turned out.

First new thing in a while for a project with the fabulous MariNaomi 😌

Hello BlueSky, hope you are well. I’m good, working on the production of Folk Remedy Book 2. Which is hard and a lot of work??? You think I’d have learned from last time, but apparently no. Finally building up my drawing stamina again. How have you been? Please share your art and/or cats.

@jemyoshioka.bsky.social picked up FOLK REMEDY for my 10yo at the library. Loved the art style and immediately asked where the next one was 😆 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Folk-R...

@jemyoshioka.bsky.social They're here!

I received a book of an English Manga created by Jem Yoshioka ( @jemyoshioka.bsky.social ). Its subject matter is YOKAI (Japanese folklore monster). It is familiar for me as a Japanese. Not only this, it is interesting story. 英語の漫画を入手しました。作者はジェム・ヨシオカさん。日本の妖怪を題材にした漫画です。馴染みやすいだけではなく、ストーリーも面白いです。

Folk Remedy arrived!! I meant to just do a quick flip through, but accidentally read through the whole thing and AHHH BOOK 2 WHEN?? It was so cute, everyone was so expressive, the whole book design & colors @jemyoshioka.bsky.social you did a fantastic job! Everyone, go pick it up!! #comics

HEY Happy National Comic Book day!!!! Ya'll should check out Dani & Bree's comic, their awesome recs, and if I might add a few more, you gotta check out @alakotila.bsky.social @kaijubean.bsky.social @bob-artist.bsky.social @jemyoshioka.bsky.social and @kodyisover.com if you haven't yet!!

🍂AUTUMN EQUINOX🙏 Today is Shūbun-no-hi (秋分の日 'Autumn Equinox Day’)📿 Typically falling on September 22nd or 23rd, this time of year coincides with the Buddhist observances 'Shūki Higan-e' (秋季彼岸会 'Autumn Equinoctial Services'). It has been a national holiday since 1948. #autumn #Kyoto #秋分の日

Oh, I just remembered that I needed to add the sticker that @jemyoshioka.bsky.social gave me when we passed on the street the other day to my work laptop! It’s now in good company ❤️

Happy Book Birthday to Folk Remedy! I’m so happy to see this story’s made its way onto bookshelves and into people’s homes! It’s been a long journey, but we made it! Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered, bought, read, reviewed, or requested it from your library. It all means so much!

Congratulations to the team that worked on the Knights of Guinevere. The pilot is amazing <3

New comic drop on Patreon:D It's a for fun project I'm drawing on a sketchbook, very fast and loose and silly. The Tattletale Fool is a fantasy comedy about an elf sent on a mission into the very heart of a human kingdom! www.patreon.com/posts/139026... 8 pages up on Patreon for 2+ members!

FYI relay dinner is real and I’m pretty sure I did invent it. (If you did I’m sorry for claiming it, but also let’s be friends because we obviously both have excellent ideas.) Too difficult to get all the food on the plate at same time? Don’t! ✨Relay dinner✨

Regular meal advice: Do meal prep so you have easy meals to hand when you’re low on energy! ADHD meal advice: So I invented this thing I call “relay dinner” where instead of cooking a whole meal at once I prepare and eat the components of a balanced meal one after another. Dunno why but it works.

Folk Remedy Book 1 releases on September 23! You can pre-order right now!

Illustrating a 240-page graphic novel means I have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to character expressions. Which character matches your mood today? I’m feeling like C3. ✨☺️✨ All the expressions are from Folk Remedy Book 1, which releases September 23!

Illustrating a 240-page graphic novel means I have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to character expressions. Which character matches your mood today? I’m feeling like C3. ✨☺️✨ All the expressions are from Folk Remedy Book 1, which releases September 23!

Just under a month to go until it comes out! Here’s some kind reviews 🥹❤️. If you want to preorder it, consider your favorite indie bookstores ❤️❤️❤️

Hi all! I hope you are doing well! Just a reminder that Lore Olympus volume 9 is currently available for pre-order, wherever books are sold. This volume also comes with a never-before-seen bonus chapter. Thank you for your support.

Delivering motivational presentations to inspire the youth.

KaneNoNaruKi - "Money trees" - [Yokai Bonsai] - Exceptionally rare trees, bearing thousands upon thousands of broad Golden Ryo coins for leaves. Planted by the sichifukujin; the trunks & branches form auspicious phrases such as blessings, for wealth or longevity! samkalensky.com/products/kan...

It turns out when you publish a book people say nice things about your book. I’m going to collect a few of them here.

My local coffee shop has a communal table you can sit at, and recently added a communal sketchbook people can draw in. Of course I had to add something.

It still feels weird to me that I finished a book and that it’s being released this month, and that people will buy it and read it. People have already ordered it??? They are *looking forward* to it????? This isn’t just something I’ve made up in my head????? Weird.

Thank you @cbcbooks.bsky.social for featuring Folk Remedy on your September hot off the press reading list! Folk Remedy releases this month, September 23. Pre-orders are open now! www.cbcbooks.org/cbc-book-lis... #mustread #kidlit #CBCHotOffThePress #ReadingList #folklore #yokai #graphicnovel

Hey! It’s September now! Did you know my book comes out this month? Strange but true! Pick up this fun yōkai adventure in time for spooky season. Pre-order links here (heaps of countries/locations listed): site.andrewsmcmeel.com/folk-remedy-...

Folk Remedy is very very good, highly recommend!

I can’t recommend this enough and while I openly admit my bias as Proud Aunty, it really is an awesome book and a great read and what else do you want to know??? 😃😃😃👇 (Also patiently waiting for Book 2! 😅)

I’m doing a bad job of telling people I have a book for sale and that you can buy it. (But I do, and you can. 💖)

Hey! It’s September now! Did you know my book comes out this month? Strange but true! Pick up this fun yōkai adventure in time for spooky season. Pre-order links here (heaps of countries/locations listed): site.andrewsmcmeel.com/folk-remedy-...

I originally developed "On the Bones of BATALA" for the FÖLK-LORE Game Jam back in 2021 (it was then called "On the Bones of Bathala" before I learned Bathala was possibly a Spanish misspelling). bit.ly/otbob #bonesofbatala #RPGSEA

I’ve been procrastinating this double page spread in Book 2 (crowd scene at a yōkai night market, who wrote this???? Oh. It was me...). Now I’m finally getting to it I am having fun.

A story in three acts.

I'll be signing books at the National Library in Wellington this Wednesday 1-1:30pm so if you want to get your copy of Detective Beans signed, stop by and say hello!

only 49 days until hello sunshine comes out!! that feels like way less than 50!! Preorders! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

The lie that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified is still being perpetrated in the US. We live in a country of cognitive dissonance because we have never grappled with this war crime, nor the racist justification for it. There is a reason they did not drop nukes on Europe.

New Lock Screen.

I’ve got a bunch of pre-order links for a bunch of countries. So if you’re not sure where to order from, you can find links here: site.andrewsmcmeel.com/folk-remedy-...

New PC. Luckily I have great tech support.

Just did. Jem's work is lovely and I'm excited to see this.

My most important reader. Taeko, my (soon-to-be) 94-year-old grandma holding the book I dedicated to her. She’s been a big supporter of my artistic journey so I’m glad I got to bring a smile to her face with this.