"I HATE BROCCOLI!" said the tough biker dude with childhood issues.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Green arcanian
Nigby’s acidic spittle flew as he passionately gave his lecture about the many evils of beauty. It was a life-changing talk, no one got a chance to apply it thoug...
Monday, November 18, 2013
Monday, November 11, 2013
Vandine the Fertile
I was sketching last week and had this idea of a barbarian woman blessed with such incredible fertility that she uses her children as disposable minions in battle. The name “Vandine” popped into my head and I knew I just had to make an illustration out of it.
Here we are many late nights later, the piece is finally finished. I never knew making an illustration is soo challenging. I guess it’s like giving birth. It’s messy, you struggle and push...
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Ridin' Dirty
On his 5000th day of service as a squire, Pekto discovered the ability to turn into a fun-loving cyclops with a set of perfect teeth(for fun-loving cyclops anyway).
Around the same time, his master and all around pain-in-the-butt Sir Sean passive-aggressive, transformed into a leashed pig.
At that very moment, both knew their lives would never be the sam...
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Yamabushi Heretic
"Why would I help in avenging your family, boy? I may have even caused their deaths for all you kno...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Sunday, September 22, 2013
My own principles of design
What is design?
According to the dictionary, design is a specific arrangement of elements to create a desired result.
Lately I have come to the realization that I can't master all areas of art in my lifetime. I enjoy and want to make many kinds of art but I can't possibly learn all of them in my time here on Earth. Instead I made a list of the things I enjoy most in art and focus on them. These are based on my own values and what I enjoy the most.
In short, these will help me create the desired result - simple, lighthearted, appealing illustrations.
Here...
Monday, August 26, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
WHEEL OF TIME FANART!
This has been a long time coming.
I’ve been listening to WOT audiobooks for the past months while working so I guess it’s just natural to make fanart for the book I love.
P.S. Mat Cauthon is the coolest character ever. Uno is not far behind though with his cursing and eyepatc...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Quick painting test
The result of playing Bastion and listening to WOT while working. I'm planning to use the same style in a WOT fanart piece. It's been long overdu...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Mid year catch up
Wow! It's been a month or so since I last posted on this blog. Time flies so fast and life threw some huge boulders on my way so yeah. But here I am, stronger than ever before, and itching to get some personal projects done since it's officially the eighth month of 2013. I usually release a cartoon atleast once a year and I'm not planning on breaking that tradition now. It'll probably be released in the last quarter but in the meantime, these...
Monday, July 1, 2013
My best animation so far
Last year, I accepted a project - making cutscenes for an ipad and iOS game to be exact - and did the best I can for three whole months, even if the project budget is only for 1 month, and being under an NDA until the game is ready to be released.
The reason for this is that I wanted to test where I am, skill-wise on making animations. The budget didn't matter, nor the NDA, I just want to know what will be the result of my full effort. Eventually,...
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
Anime-ish character designs batch 4!
Just like your favorite talent search shows, my character designs also come in batches. This week has been particularly tough as I was down with the fever for a few days yet I didn't have the luxury to take a day off. But tomorrow will be a different story as I promise to treat myself extra special for all this hard wo...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Latest Anime-ish character designs
New designs for work. This time the theme is a girl who loves superheroes. I widened the descriptions though, see for yourself:
1. A little superhero girl. This girl is really adorable but her moves are really brash and violent due to influence of film and tv. She thinks of herself as a real superhero trapped in a little girl's body.
2. The method-acting cosplayer. In every costume she wears, she becomes that character. Confidence and great...
Friday, June 7, 2013
More Anime-ish character designs
New character designs for work! The theme was a rocker dude. I totally enjoyed thinking of the designs and envisioning their personalities, you can read em below: (from screen left to right)
1. A bar room player who likes to play energetic songs. I imagined something like the men from the tap dance scene in titanic. So this personality will translate in the animation by giving him hillbilly like jumpy movements.
2. Wild rocker - just like...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Anime-ish character designs
Some character designs I did for work. I tried to implement some things I learned about drawing clothes but as of now I'm still faking it. Gonna dig deeper and find out about how folds on clothes and drapery really wor...
Monday, June 3, 2013
June - Clothing and drapery month!
If anyone noticed, I haven't done any long written blog post in a while. The reason is that I wanted to make this blog more about the drawings and less about the talk. It worked for me as I got a lot of drawings and work done during May. But for now I have to make an exception cause I'm once again dedicating a month to improving a certain area of study - namely, clothing and drapery!
This month is supposed to be dedicated to working on my comic and learning more about story but as fate would have it, my current project extended and I have a chance...
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
Digital Watercolor
Trying out digital watercolors. I may be on to something here, it looks like the real thin...
Is style needed?
I got this from Austin Kleon's tumblr:
“Don’t worry about style. It will be expressed no matter what you do. Style is part of the way your brain is wired.” —Luke Sullivan
“The problem with art today: the artist believes he must find a style (or a schtick really) and defend it with his life. And if all the schticks are already taken, he must pull one out of his ass. He must find one, invent one, fabricate one, for he can be nothing if he cannot be original.” —Eddie Campbell
“Style is a capitalist invention. It’s a trademark. It’s very useful...
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Don't wait to get better - Guidelines for making things the zen way
Art - a mountain without summit
1. First, realize that you already have all that you need now. You can produce great stuff right this moment. The only thing that's holding you back are your impossible standards and fear. Always remember that when the muse sees your butt in the chair, she will deliver.
2. The second thing is that simplicity is important, but simplicity is also relative. Simplicity is key in all things. Eliminate the...
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
New logo
After trashing several ideas, I finally settled on a new logo look.
Considering that I didn't study design, I'm quite surprised it turned out ok. I liked the way the character is somewhat "sneaking" and boggarting his way into the lower right side of the stage, as well as the custom text I designed. I didn't know what I was doing 90% of the time but I just trusted my instincts to what looks nice. Now moving on to studying shape and...
Thursday, April 25, 2013
A recommitment to professionalism
I remember it very clearly, it was a normal sunny day. I was inside my crowded apartment starting though the window. The previous days have been wasted in browsing the internet and playing games which I don't even remember. I feel terrible, I'm wasting my life and I know I have to make a decision. June 12, 2012 was the day I committed myself into becoming a professional.
This commitment was brought upon a special audiobook I bought several...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Caricatures 001
Some warmups to get the 2 day rust off.I got way too burned out finishing the hand tutorial in just 24 hours. The tiredness carried over the next 2 days, but now I'm feeling much better though the week is almost over and I hadn't done anything yet work-wise. The effortless life experiment has been going great as well. I'm feeling less stressed and more productive the past several days.&nbs...
