I am a graphic designer and JP-EN translator who came to Japan in 2015 to pursue a career utilising my Japanese skills. Over the years I have worked in various retail positions. Now, I am specialising in creating marketing materials relating to recording equipment and musical instruments, in addition to translating various materials to and from English and Japanese.
In Japan, there are quite a few qualifications that you can take relating to graphic design. A famous example is the 色彩検定 shikisai-kentei (Colour Co-ordination Test) with it’s various degrees of difficulty. However, it can be a little intimidating at first, so I decided to try the “Photoshop Creator Skills… Read More »Studying for the Photoshop Creator Skills Qualification Test
In this article, I will be explaining the steps I took to create this isometric graphic I made. The software I used was Adobe Illustrator. This time, I based it on a new product from Novation, the Launchpad X. First steps For the first stage, I took a front-facing bitmap… Read More »Creating Isometric Graphics in Adobe Illustrator