WiP - Trying out some stuff

 

This cover art is already inked, the above image was from the scanned pencils I did before proceeding to inking. But I had to see first what dding some  HUDs would look like.

What do you think?

WiPs for #LinggoNgWika2015

Mars Ravelo's Darna

A reimagination of Mars Ravelo's Darna, still in pencil phase, hoping to finish inks and color so that this could be a part of the artwork raffle and giveaways for #LinggoNgWika2015 an event by GTMACCon with Kit Perez at the helm, in cooperation with the National Center for Communication and Arts  that will happen on August 1, 2015 at the Fisher Mall 

Cover Art for a Short Story for Dagitab

 And this one for show, since I also write, or aspire to be a writer. If this story get published, the artwork will be the cover.

Coming Soon

G.I.G.O #2

New Project. Kinda.

It has been too long sinceI posted anything substantial. Probably because I got sidelined by life itself. But there's always some itch you cannot scratch fully. So, I sat down one day and let the itch take me someplace .

This is a new project. Something that could be the restart of a once shelved storyline I've had for ages. This will be the conduit for everything that could explain the Daluiong Story Arc. This series may or may not make it to Mang Jun Dayo's venture, so I'll just continue in this line of comics until the proper funds could be pooled to actually self-publish the whole caboodle before I die, ha ha ha!

Taking A Step Back

It was a no brainer really. It is the most decent thing I could have done, given the life that I have squandered here on Earth.

When the news finally came in in trickles, I was on the floor with a couple of coleagues, doing graphic duties for the news. The few images we got gave me an enormous feeling of dread and helplessness. All those complaints and grievances I harbor seem to be all too petty and weightless compared to the loss of lives in the wake of Yolanda. And knowing that a friend,  whom we share the apartment with, and doing what a reporter does on site, was incommunicado at the time, the stark reality didn't really hit like a thunderbolt, but like a slow poison eating you up and killing you inch by inch, nerve by nerve.

I have to do something.

I did. But it seemd so mall an effort. Too little. And too late for that matter.

What I'm writing and illustrating with what is supposed to be launched at the Komikon this coming weekend, is a re-imagining of life here, and there was some panels and scenes that I will have to rewrite and redraw given the big similarities with what just happened in the Visayas. I just had to decide it would be very insensitive of me to publish something that is so close to the bone.

I started to write and illustrate my own novels in comics form, dreaming of acknowledgement and acceptance as a comics artist. But that would have to wait. There are more important things to do than think about my delusions of grandeur at this point.

I have done my part, and will continue to do so, with the relief for survivors of Yolanda. You can contribute by getting the information HERE

I urge you to do the same. However small. Anything will be a bigger help than you can imagine.

DAIO Cover setup

I never knew how really hard nad tedious thinking up a cover for my own comics is. I thought up this concept and tried a 'pencil' test first to look at it in a digital perspective, and what it would look like scaled down, cropped and printed.

I could say I am very excited with the progress.