This Is How You Remind Me

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

-Nickelback

Re-Vision: Diuatang Gubat

This is the final illustration in ink.

The next two scans are how I came up with the above images.

Modern Maiden

Hah! The female form still eludes me. But this is a good start. I could never justify my drawings when I do females. And no preliminary sketching? Years ago I would never have attempted this.

But old dogs can learn new tricks after all.

You could look at what all three, this, and my previous two posts look like when I put it all together on my other blog.

Fret Frenzy

 

From the outcome of the previous sketch, I got another used paper and did another one, wondering if distorted anatomy and music is possible, and with what I did with the previous post, I let the hand and eye do their work. My posing is still laughable, but improving.

Thinking of purchasing brush pens.

Coffee Break

 Sitting at work, my thoughts just landed on how I should approach my komiks, with the illustrations and inking style. To tell the truth, I have none. My "style" was what remained of the discipline of in-betweening animations cels, and of course, my own love affair with woodcut.

And I seem to always, sketch, and then do a clean up, check the anatomy or the detail, and then do revisions again, and again. Never trusted my own direct approach, a skill I have always envied from a friend, Aries Nario. Still, it was on coffee break that I dared to do something drastic, took an ink pen and just let the hand do the storytelling.

I went where the nib wanted to go. No pencil sketch, just pure instinct. Somewhat surprising, I liked what was finished, after 20 minutes or so.

Found out I could shift from pencil to pen, and it was not so bad afterall.

Still, I have to find my own, so that when the time comes to doing the komiks, I'm confident enough to follow through and finish my first full comics issue of DAIO.