Fading

This Is How You Remind Me

"This is how you remind me of what I really am."

-Nickelback

This Is How You . . .

This Is How . . .

Mini Nightmares - Octo Squid

Mini Nightmares - Horned Loathsome

Sketch A Day - SketchUp

I started doodling with SketchUp 8 the other day, and it dawned on me that, whoa this tool is pretty amazing! So Now I, thinking of incorporating this 3D graphic tool

Wolvie, Spur of the Moment

OT: The Matchbox

"Kristin" my 12-string Zeny Bandilla acoustic guitar is now back and sounding really good with the fixed bridge, literally, and new strings, too! Rod Stewart's Anthology is playing on my CD player, and I just got home from some tedious work tasks, and some I need to do here at home. Reheated papaitan and lefover rice from this morning's breakfast, and having coffee as I sort out the things needed to be done each night from now on.

Color Sketch Jan. 7, 2013

This is embarassing . . . 

I know I'm not good at coloring my work, but . . .but . . .this is getting ridiculous. I started to choose random colors that comes to mind and look what I did. It's very frustrating. So I guess I have to restart this project with the proper color scheme.

Sketch A Day Dec.23

Merry Creatures 009

Ta-dah!

These happy group of monsters will be up for coloring. Either that or I could purchase a tablet to add the colors in a more organized fashion or just with the mouse and Photoshop.

Looks like it is going to have some colors, after all!

Sketch A Day Dec.22

Merry Creatures 008

Hah! Recalled a creature I thought up when I was in grade school - an owl-like bird, but not really a bird, with spread wings, and a thick mop of hair and beard.

Sketch A Day Dec.21

Merry Creatures 007

Sketch A Day Dec.20

Merry Creatures 006

Getting there. But not just yet. That empty space near long-neck is driving me nuts.

Anyway, illustration is my way of easing down. Something that relaxes me. Doing simulation drawings (the kind that depicts certain incidents not caught on camera that I do for my team at TV5, where reporters rush in and write the news while me and some of my team mates rush to create something, which is often frustrating because there's always not enough time to produce good quality drawings, but it gets done) is very different. The times I do these sketches doesn't limit the canvas, pardon the pun.

And of course, even whimsical in nature, I get to draw stuff not necessarily violent in nature. Being with my badass graphics team, we get to see news reports that are often heart rending.

So I guess that is why I blog my sketches.

Sketch A Day Dec.19

Merry Creatures 005

A bit more depth with the shading and texture. Not quite sure what to do with the big guy at the back, though.

Sketch A Day Dec.18

Merry Creatures 004

This time, the sketch is cleaned up a bit, and some details that fit the eyes for each creature. There's a large space on the right that I am not really sure to leave the way it is or add something that has feathers.

Anyway, the internal debate of finishing this with just shading and thicker lines is tempting. Should I add color at the end? Or add more detail? If this was a larger sheet of paper, say, 11x17 inches or the tabloid size, it would have been more detailed, but this is actually a letter sized document, so better save that for later.

I post the drawings with a layer of old paper texture. A cop out should I decide to leave it as it is. 

Sketch A Day Dec.17

Merry Creatures 003

Because I don't know what to call them. These creatures have been in my mind since my childhood. And it's only now that I want to draw them and see if I can capture the wonder and the delight, the fright and mystery that surrounds these imaginary cryptids of my youth.

Still a work in progress.

Sketch A Day Dec. 15

Merry Creatures 002

Sketch A Day - November 13, 2012

Sketch A Day [Found Sketches]

Just a sketch I did several months ago.

Things have been hectic kind of late. So many stuff needed my immediate attention, some more pressing than others, but I'm back, finding a whole lot of time to draw and sketch this coming days, me being alone in the apartment most of the time.