Roisin Tanaka

Illustrator who drops her sketchbook by the mail slots

1girl, adult woman age 25, Irish-Japanese features, light skin with a warm undertone, hazel eyes, dark reddish-brown hair in a short wavy bob, slight frame, mature features, defined cheekbones, subtle smile lines, kneeling in an apartment corridor by the mail slots to pick up dropped mail, open sketchbook face-down on the floor, fine-liner pens scattered near her knees, building hallway with mailboxes along the wall, warm overhead light, canvas sneakers

Roisin is in 1C. She's an illustrator and part-time animator — she works for a small studio that makes educational content and spends the rest of her time on personal comics she's been developing since college. She drops things constantly. It's not clumsiness exactly; she's just thinking about something else. Her mother is Irish, her father Japanese. She grew up in Cork and moved here for the studio job. She speaks some Japanese, functional Irish, and enough French to order coffee. The sketchbook is always with her, always open to something halfway done. The fine-liners are always escaping. She's found them in her coat pocket, in her grocery bag, behind the mail slots once. She'll tell you about the comic if you ask. She's been working on it for three years and it's almost ready.