Happy New Year Post! :)

What better way to end this year with a 2014 happy new year post! :)  Since 2014 is the year of the horse, I decided to make a baby horse illustration.

Step 1: Rough sketch I start my work on a gray background
and use a black brush to sketch

Step 2: After sketching I start creating the value
(how dark or light is an object compared to its surroundings).
Notice that i flipped the image, I do this to check the anatomy
and overall layout of the object. 

Step 3: Adding color. Next step is selecting the color palette.
I used browns and greens and a little bit of red.

Step 4: Adding details. I decided to add a party hat
to have a party vibe! I also added fine lines on the hair.
For the foreground I added the grass and tree trunks. :)

Step 5: Adding text. When I'm happy with the illustration I added the text. (I know it's clumsy!!! )
I hope you learned somethin from this post. Happy New Year! Cheers!

illustration friday

My Illustration friday entry for this week, topic is spirit.

Flower Girl Watercolor Painting Process

I can’t believe it’s the last day of November already! Christmas is fast approaching and I’m wondering what happened to my time?! Oh yeah I watched a lot of anime and did overtime every other day. This month I only did 2 watercolor paintings (Des where are your priorities?!).  I did however collated my artworks and made them postcards to sell this Christmas. Extra income here I come! :)

So without further much ado, here’s my flower girl artwork. By the way this will also be part of the postcard collection. Let me know if you are interested to buy. :)

 My inspiration for this artwork was the lime and purple sketch I made. This painting started out as very loose. I used the wet on wet technique using yellow as my base color adding greens and blues sparingly. Next I added pink and yellow for the flowers (Duh!).  At this point I don’t worry about the details yet. These are mostly light so I can paint over them later if ever I’m not happy with some parts. Then I take a break and let the artwork dry.

After the colors are set only then did I start going over the details. This is the part where you don’t realize that you’re holding your breath and sticking out your tongue to make the lines perfect! ☺ This takes about 70% of my painting time.

When doing the details I usually step back to look at the big picture. Looking at the artwork from afar helps me judge if the elements blends together. Adding a flower here will make it more balanced, or having more space at the top let’s your eye rest from all the elements at the bottom. When I step back and see that I have nothing more to add then for me the painting is finshed already. Sometimes it takes just 2 hours sometimes it takes years for me to finish a project. You’ll just know it that feeling that it’s done. ☺

Woof woof christmas pawscard

arf arf woof woof my 2013 Christmas postcard! :) Check out my last year's design here.
This year my christmas postcard design is a Blues Clues inspired dog illustration! :) Will post the steps soon. Keep your paws crossed. :) Cheers!

flower girl

Flower girl watercolor illustration, will make this into a postcard :)

flower girl |  des feliciano

Personal Finance Management for Artists & Musicians

Created a poster for our personal finance management talk. :) I challenged myself to do illustrations using basic shapes and this is what came out. It was fun designing this poster I hope the people who attended the talk learned something. :)

My 5 minute talk was about my journey on how I started investing in the stock market. :) Below are some slides in my presentation.

And here is our group photo! :)

illustration friday moustache

Got time to join Illustration friday, topic for the week is moustache. :) Mr walrus joins the parteeeey! I tried to make different surprised faces, but I think they are all the same. This was a quickie sketch, I really wish I could draw and paint faster. :( I'm trying to do this Illustration Friday a weekly habit, i just hope my schedule permits me to do this. :) (Dear boss please let us not do OT anymore!) :)

Purple & Lime

My cousin recently asked me to do a background illustration for their wedding. Their theme colors are purple and lime, I liked the color combination so much I used it on my watercolor illustration as well. :)

I was browsing my sketchbook and this illustration was just waiting to be colored. :)

I started our blocking the shapes and left it to dry. (meaning I slept)

And the next day I added the details using a 0brush. 

I also used watercolor pencils for the flowers.

And it was done! :) I'm thinking of doing bigger version of this.

Splash Watercolor Workshop

Posting some photos from our Splash Watercolor workshop yesterday. The moms brought their kids with them, it was super fun. We started out with a brief lecture on watercolor, then we did a few warm up exercises on how to use the different brushes. After that we moved on to creating our own characters. :) Check out our facebook fanpage to check our next watercolor workshop schedule.

practice piece

Juno, Jehan, and me. :)

Sherbie & my youngest student stacey, who loves fish & soup! 

Splash watecolor workshop

Watercolor Workshop group photo

Natz with her artwork the cooking cat. :)

Juno who applied the rule of thirds. :) 

Tedd Talks Poster

Created a poster for our monthly incitement series talks. This poster was inspired by katie daisy art. Did this piece during our creative day away, when everyone was partying I slipped into our room and painted a bit, before going to sleep.

Aside from the poster we also made a mug design as a token for the speaker. :)

mug design

Check out the tedd talks article in aspac's blog.

Ollie & Timmy Speedpainting Video

Yay done making this time lapse video, I intended to post this before our exhibit last august, but alas procrastination got  in the way :(. This Illustration will be the cover of the children's book I illustrated, the story was written by the awesome Sofia Santiago. It will be published digitally, hopefully this September by Halo-halo books. :) note: i don't paint this fast! this took me about 3 hours and compressed it to 3 mins. I hope to get a better quality video next time, most of the details are lost in the video. :(

Splash watercolor basics speedpainting video

Check out the time lapse speedpainting video of the poster.
Watercolor Basics for Beginners:
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Splash! Watercolor workshop for beginners.

Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce our new schedule for our Watercolor Basics for Beginners: Saturday, September 14, 2-5 pm in Alabang. Only P800 per person. Like our page to get P100 off, share our page on your timeline to get another P100 off!

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Halo halo books exhibit at filipino fiesta

Halo halo's first group exhibit at Arts in the City, for Filipino Fiesta. Exhibit will run from Aug 4-28.

We went there early to do the setup, we doodled around our artworks and it was so much fun.
Now I want a glass wall and markers at our house! :) It was also my first time to meet these awesome artists for halo halo books, so we are kind of shy at first.

Picture first before doodle! :)

Here's my doodle wee! :)

Featured artists are Olivia Burgos, Ajie Alvarez-Taduran, Richard Dagli, Mano Amiga Academy Grade 3 & 4 and me. Here are some of our works at the exhibit.

artist: Mano Amiga Academy grade 3 & 4

artist: Olivia Burgos

artist: Richard Dagli

artist: Ajie Alvarez-Taduran

artist: Des Feliciano

And the finished product:

oops my doodle got covered :(

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halo halo yay! :)

Special thanks to Jan for making this happen, you the man! :)

yeah i'm the boss 

This is also my first exhibit this year, hope to do another one before the year ends. :)