OKIDO 11

OKIDO issue 11 is out now!

I did 2 pages in this issue.
some little pictures on the cover and back as well.

The theme is 'Heart and Blood Circulation'.



I made lots of activities.
Amida-kuji (Ghost Leg), mouth one, ball game, spot the differences, and colouring activity.

In the Amida-kuji, you help Red Blood Cells to bring Oxygen to organs.
In the mouth activity, White Blood Cell eats germs.



As you fold the page,


It will eat.


On the edge of the back page, there will be a gutter as you fold it for front. Using it, you need to keep a red Plasticine ball (Red Blood Cell) moving between Lungs and Heart.



There were 2 stages of Amida-kuji but we had to remove it cause the page was too busy.

used to be like this.







This is a short animation as exercise for the animation project which I'm now doing.

The Times

My illustration is in OKIDO's page in The Times today!

Wow!





Introducing the easy binding.



My name as well.



with Peter Rabbit!

More activity ideas

Some references of activity book from my bookshelves

'Klumpe Dumpe' Book for kids? which I bought in Helsinki.



















'RUPERT FUN'














Ideas from the references

Finding the same picture from some different ones or finding differences from two images.

Research of Blood Circulation

-In blood there are Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells and Platelets. 5 million of Red Blood Cells, 5,000 - 10,000 of White Blood Cells and 200,000 - 400,000 of Platelets.



-Red Blood Cells bring Oxygen which Lungs produce from Lungs to organs and cells such as Brain, Muscle, Eyes, Stomach, Large Bowel, Small Bowel, Liver, Kidney, etc.

-Each cells produce Carbon Dioxide. Then Red Blood Cells bring them back to Lungs and Lungs change CO2 to O2 and repeat.



-White Blood Cells kill germs in blood.

-When skin is injured, Platelets make a scab on the skin and it protects skin from germs.

-Red Blood Cell can changes its shape.

-Haemoglobin in Red Blood Cell makes the colour of the cell Red.

-Anemic person's skin looks bluish white because the number of Haemoglobin, which is Red, is less.

References:

http://www.tenshi.ac.jp/careblog/2005/06/20056.html
http://ashikenkou.jp/knowledge0101.html
http://www17.ocn.ne.jp/~kapharma/junnkannki.htm
http://humanbody.jp/charts/item/v2018.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulatory_system
http://www.ehow.com/about_4779072_the-cardiovascular-system.html
http://agingresearch.buffalo.edu/assets/images/chf_circulatory_system.jpg
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/血管
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/血液
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/赤血球
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/白血球
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/血小板
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/肺
http://hinketsu.783-0.com/cat0001/1000000053.html
http://www.365sarasara.sakura.ne.jp/ketueki2.html
http://tokutei-kenshin.com/checklist/anemia.htm
http://homepage2.nifty.com/luminaries/guidance/hito_013.htm
http://plus-hinketsu.net/a04ketsueki.html

OKIDO 10 Launch Party

I went to the launch party of OKIDO issue 10. It was at Doodle Bar in Battersea. Everyone can doodle anywhere in the bar. The situation that children were playing and doodling freely reminded me my childhood. I enjoyed doodling very much as well.
And I didn't know then though, I missed a puppet show early in the party. I came too late!