The dragon winner!

Here are all the name tags of the people who wanted to win my paper dragon!
I put them all in a bowl... and with closed eyes I pulled out one....

And that was the tag of cofvempire! Congratulations! :-D
(I'll contact you through Twitter)

Thanks everyone for your participation and nice comments!
And I'm sorry I only have one prize, but who knows, I might do this again!

Happy New Dragon Year!

2011 was a strange year with many trips abroad (Berlin, Budapest, Brussels, London, HongKong, Japan and Korea)
and loads of work, but I'm not very good in looking back; I rather look forward to the next year, when I hope
to finish at least one of my two big book projects, work hard again as a chairlady for the BNS (Dutch Comicartist Union),
have many fun assignments (maybe more photo illustrations like this?) and hopefully travel to Asia again.
I hope that 2011 was a wonderful year you as well and 2012 will be even better!

The making of...

My Asian souvenirs

Maybe it was because I've visited Japan and Korea some times before, but this time I hardly
had any interest in picking up regular souvenirs. Instead I started buying art supplies...

It started with art markers. I use these for my work (drawing 'live' cartoons) and they're
quite expensive, but a bit cheaper in Asia.

Then I got craft tape... Oh, how I love the Japanese 'washi' masking tape! I also scored some
cheap fabric tape and other decorative tapes.

And then I got paper... paper.... and more paper! I still don't know what I'm going to use
these for, but I'm sure I'll find something.

The Japanese have wonderfully decorated origami paper.

But the Koreans are even more advanced in fabricating gorgeous paper (and they had an
even bigger collection of origami paper).

The things you can do with 41 paper dolls

The plate in the middle is from Arabia, and I love its design.
I inherited it from my grandmother, the woman on it reminds me a bit of her.

41 paper dolls

59 to go.

Scissors

I have a very special pair of scissors.