Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ Spring arrived quietly this year. The cherry trees in my neighborhood park started blooming, and some of them are already in full flower. It's really beautiful. In Japanese, there's a cultural and linguistic tradition tied to cherry blossoms. When sakura bloom, it represents success. We often say, "sakura saku(桜咲く)." Such as passing an exam, being accepted into the dream school, reaching a goal. When the petals fall, it represents failure or loss.

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ By the time you're reading this, The Princess and the Blade  is officially available on Amazon, both ebook and paperback. This is my biggest goal of 2026. I've been working on this project since last year, and I poured my time and energy into this one project. I'm happy. I really am. After a year of writing and drawing and formatting and stressing, my book is actually out there in the world. That's huge. But... it's also hard to feel purely happy r

I've spent hours and hours revising my manuscript, my artworks, and formatting of my debut novel. And this revision process is tedious and painful for most of time. It's not as fun or exciting as creating the work itself. Check out my novel~!!(I use affiliate links💚🌱) 'Done is better than perfect' is a really valuable concept to prevent endless procrastination for almost everyone, not just artists. We have assignments to do, paperworks to submit, and projects to tackle. Whe

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ Have you ever found yourself aggressively cleaning your room mere hours before a critical deadline? Or perhaps, right when you need to focus on a difficult commission or coding problem, you decide it is the perfect time to reorganize your entire digital file system. You search Notion Organizing system or Obsidian note taking process on YouTube for... no reason. I believe this phenomenon is familiar to almost every creative professional, or really,

“Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.” — Max Weber This line appears in Science as a Vocation  by Max Weber, published in 1919. He wrote it as part of an argument that academic work and vocations cannot exist without Leidenschaft —passion. But he wasn't talking about the emotional intensity artists often feel. He meant a sustained commitment, a devotional attitude toward long-term projects. Yet more than a century later, I believe

Hi guys! It's me, AiTommy✨️ Consistency is often framed as a test of willpower, something that requires grinding through exhaustion and pushing yourself to the limit. But that mindset can quickly lead to burnout. If you have a theater performance tomorrow, you gotta go to bed and rest, instead of worrying about posting another podcast episode or blog post. ...yeah that's me. Today, I’d like to share a gentler and more sustainable approach to consistency. One that doesn’t rely