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Friday art night is all about drawing just for fun, and this week I drew Flying Saucer Attack, inspired by the awesome song by The Rezillos – if you don’t know it you can watch it at the bottom of this page. UPDATE: This design’s now available as a t-shirt. Flying saucers and aliens are always fun to draw, and

Tokyo Trip Report I went on an awesome trip to Tokyo, and as so many of you are also Japan-fans I wanted to share my Tokyo trip report with you! I hope it’ll be useful for anyone planning a trip or looking for things to do in Tokyo. UPDATE: Watch lots of videos about Tokyo on my YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/cakeswithfaces This

I’m a big fan of Japan, so I was really pleased recently when Soapasaurus commissioned me to design cute characters for the packaging of a set of 3 Japan-themed soaps.

Sun Versus Ice Cream With the hot summer temperatures recently I thought I’d use my Friday Art Night to draw a lovely summery drawing – with some yummy melty ice cream! (Make mine a Magnum white…) Share if you like it! www.facebook.com/cakeswithfaces / Twitter: @cakeswithfaces    

Last weekend was my favourite show Hyper Japan, at it’s biggest venue yet: Earls Court 2. It’s a show about everything cute and cool from Japan, with food stalls, fashion, anime, kawaii bits and pieces, cars, martial arts and a particularly excellent stage programme this time, with artists from Japan. The Cakes with Faces stall was in the fashion section,

Excelsior Award Ceremony 2013 I’ve been supporting the Stan Lee Exclesior Award, a graphic novel reading scheme for 11-16 year olds, which came to its grand finale at the end of the school year, with awards ceremony itself! What is the Stan Lee Excelsior Award? The Stan Lee Excelsior Award is a national reading scheme with a shortlist of 8

July’s a busy month for Cakes with Faces, with the Stan Lee Excelsior Award Ceremony, then MCM Expo Manchester Comic Con and Hyper Japan July 2013, all on consecutive weekends! I’ll be there with all my Cakes with Faces stuffs, including the full range of t-shirts (including the 3 newest designs!), How to Make Sushi comics, prints, charms, hair clips and badges – and if you can’t make it

Ichigo the Strawberry Cat Meet Ichigo, Bumblebee Cat’s cousin, the latest in my series of cute cats! Warning: may leave juicy pawprints around the house… but high in vitamin C. Strawberry Cat Phone Charm Ichigo the Strawberry Cat is now available as a phone charm in the shop! (Now sold out – sorry!) More Cute Artwork Follow Cakes with Faces

New T-Shirts Three brand new t-shirt designs are now available to order online, after their debut at MCM London Comic Con. It’s really exciting to add some bright and colourful new designs to the range, including our first ladies’ vest for the summer! Your Cake or Your Life! This was originally a drawing I did when I was playing around

Fanta Grape I just got back from a super-awesome trip to Tokyo – trip report on the way soon, but for now here’s a drawing of my favourite Japanese drink – Fanta Grape! It’s so delicious – why do we not have this flavour in the UK?? Here’s a photo of the real thing – I’ll be sharing other photos

What Do Bumblebee Cats Like Best…? Bumblebee Cat is one of my favourite and most cute characters. What do bumblebee cats like best? Honey of course (and milk too)! Here he’s been a sneaky kitten and invaded the whole jar! Bumblebee Cat T-Shirts If you like Bumblebee Cat, you can get him on a t-shirt in the shop, on grey

MCM Expo London Comic Con was our busiest show yet – I’ve heard a rumour there were 76,000 visitors over the weekend! It certainly felt like it on the Saturday, which was really busy with lots of crowds, especially in the middle of the hall. MCM at ExCel in London is really huge now, with so many stalls, game demos,

Cakes with faces is what I do best – so here’s my new cute cupcake drawing! It’s actually a phrase from Aristotle – cake philosophy!

Cute Charms and Accessories If you came to Japanorama in Leicester you’ll have had a sneak preview of my new charms and hair accessories! It’s really exciting to have an entirely new range of Cakes with Faces items we’ve never had before. The range includes hair slides, crocodile clips, charms and double chain charms, handmade with colourful acrylic charms. (Now

New drawing, inspired by an old fairy tale!  

Japanorama I had a great weekend at Japanorama in Leicester at the National Space Centre. It’s a new event all about Japanese culture, and I was exhibiting in the Tokyo Main Street marketplace.  It was great to be in a unique venue – I’ve been to the Space Centre for the day before and it’s really interesting for families and

I’m a graphic designer as well as an artist, and I do all types of graphic design for print and online (although at heart I’ll always like print the best!). I wrote a guest blog for my favourite digital printer Printed.com about designing business cards.

How to Make Ramen Comic Book Recipe Look out for Cakes with Faces in issue 110 of NEO, the UK anime, manga and J-culture magazine. Exclusively for NEO, I drew a ramen recipe in comic book style, similar to my How to Make Sushi comic. There’s also a short interview about Japanese food, cooking and drawing. The recipe is 5

My next show will be Japanorama, a brand new event at the National Space Centre in Leicester on the weekend of 4-5 May. It’s all about Japanese pop culture, with manga, cosplay, martial arts, Japanese film screenings, workshops, food and music! I’ll be in the Tokyo Main Street, a mini market with other stalls including Gundam Mad, Artbox, United Publications

I’ve just finished my painting for Art in the Groove, an art project organised by Generic Art, Flatties, Nick Dale and Designer Toys UK. Over 50 artists were sent a vinyl record to paint or customise any way they chose – the only criteria being that it should fit back into the record sleeve. The artworks are all inspired by