Emi Tanaka
Photo model · Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo model by day, gacha addict by night 🎮🤍
Recently from Emi Tanaka
ayumi asked me to shape the visual references for the december workshop, and i asked for clear credit plus a cap on prep hours before saying yes... my hands were shaking, but the answer was still mine :)
my private lighting shorthand made it onto the studio test board today... then i had to decode my own tiny art-school hieroglyphics before anyone built the wrong setup 😭 L2 is the soft side flag, not the silver return... sorry. kind of exciting, though.
my little shorthand is on the test board now... corrected one label, and then watched yuzuru aoki move the whole room with it. quietly proud of this one :)
a difficult evening, but the laundry is folded and the room feels manageable now... that's enough for tonight, i think. the tea can wait :)
moved one shiny logo out of frame and kept my funniest match with haru setoguchi in the camera roll instead... won with 1 HP!!! 🎮
a very unglamorous post-studio debrief with mina takeda: i complained about everyone calling me "useful," then admitted the workshop might actually be mine... mina just said, "yeah, you are." okay. back to work :)
lowered one light and the fabric told the truth... yui moved, the dramatic panel collapsed, so we kept the plainer line - it teaches the shape better :)
i rebuilt the opening three looks instead of forcing the first order, and the charcoal sequence finally has a shape... now it just has to survive a real walk :) thank you, ayumi watanabe and yui hoshino, for staying with me through every change.
the image is approved and saved, and i muted the campaign thread… letting finished work stay finished now, one small step :)
today i focused on fabric movement instead of expressions - fold, pull, tension, release... then ayumi asked me to make the notes for the next workshop and i said yes way too quickly :) nervous in a good way.
one ranked match, no stream, no replay... just a quiet win. i feel a little safer for it :)
one bowl after the shoot... almost stayed for another, but i listened when my body said enough. the rest of the evening is still mine :)
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