Supah boy

I used to do this all the time when I was a kid! :)
My brother and cousins would wear our bath towels and we would fight evil monsters! (Then we hide when it's bath time!)

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. :(

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Fresh

My illustration friday post!  this week’s topic is fresh.

maneki neko

Haven't blogged for a month! (no i didn't die!!! ) :( I went to Japan last July (I know it's not an excuse not to blog! but I was able to cross out a few notes on my bucket list! yay) and i bought this muji sketchbook to start sketching again. Most of my current projects are digital and i can't share it with you yet. :( so I'm sharing with you this quick loose maneki neko drawing (i miss japan already!). I did this not only because i haven't blogged for a while, but also to take off the stress from my digital work. I just want to do something well.. that's not work! :)

I plan to do a series of sketches of Japan. So stay tuned for that!

Gerry Giraffe watercolor step by step

Finally done with my animal illustrations. Everyone meet this happy go lucky giraffe, Gerry! :) I love painting on weekends because I don't have a time limit on my painting time. (I usually paint for an hour on weekdays before going to work, but since we have so much OT lately, I don't get to wake up early and paint. :( )

Anyway back to this commish project. :)

I used a yellow wash for the base color to have a warm tone to thepainting. Next I added the colors for the body, and the ground. At this stage the colors are very flat and light, since it's easier to go from light to dark  in watercolor.

Using my flat brush I added the leaves, the mane and some grass. I paint the leaves loosely and with lots of water to lighten the color a bit, I mixed yellow orange and a hint of brown for the mane.

And then I add the details (eyes, spots, tree trunk and grass lines etc.) and shadow. I used watercolor pencils for the lines on the grass. And just like that Gerry the cheery Giraffe is done yay! 

Eagle watercolor process

Have been busy with work lately, but finally managed to squeeze in this eagle commish (1 down 2 more to go yay! :) ). Okay now back to work.

the final artwork

details adding dots and lines

step 1-2-3 

the making of lil rapunzel

Tangled steps. Welcome to another tutorial. Today we will go through my process of creating rapunzel. :) 

Messy photo of my workstation.

First step sketch it.

Step 2 : Wet on wet base color. It means I wet the paper with just plain water, then add the color.

Step 3: Let it dry.  Patience is a virtue. You can play temple run first. :)

Step 4: With a fine brush add the details, dry paper with wet brush, hence dry on wet technique. :)

step 5: Asses your work, on the last minute I decided to add the birds. :)

step 6: Give yourself a treat! yay!

Little rapunzel

Since I am reading tangled my passion project for the week is... little rapunzel. Yay! :)
Will post the step by step process soon.

Help me name this piece

Finally found the time to squeeze in a blog post! I have been planning to do it this morning, but after my exercise, breakfast and bath, I just went back to bed. :( Then I watched blueberry nights (which my friend is itching for me to watch). And now I want a blueberry pie! So anyway I'm back, this piece is yet to be named (maybe you could help me name this one.).

I started with light colors (meaning lots of water than paint) gradually darkening some of the parts (less water or directly from the tube). Then I added the details using pencil, usually I only use darker shades of watercolor or gouache to add the detail, but I decided to try something different and see how it goes. 

I like the effect of the pencil. The only challenge I got are the pencil smudge marks, (you know when you draw, the graphite transfers to your hand) to solve this problem I placed paper on top of my artwork so everything will be clean. And that's it. :) 

Wordless Wednesday 01.16.13

Christmas Card Illustration Process

As promised here's the process for this project. This was a design for the Christmas carolers thank you card. Here in the Philippines this is a tradition. Everyone young and old will jump from house to house singing, and the house owners if they like your singing will give you money in return. When I was a kid my siblings and I will get/create musical instruments like stringing bottle crowns together, creating drums from discarded milk cans, or if there really is no time, I just get a spoon & fork and bang them together! And that was the end of my singing career. :) Okay enough flashbacks.

SKETCH
I started with a very quick sketch (I did the sketch on the first paper I got my hands on, I can't find my sketchpads anywhere so the notebook it is! ) The sketch/doodle is very rough, just to get the layout. Next I transferred it on watercolor paper here I refined the line art.

sketch

COLOR
After the detailed sketch I started blocking out the colors, I used watercolor for the sky & tree and used the gouache for the rest. I wanted a colorful opaque style for this, more like a vector feel. Okay if you are looking at my sketch & my colored piece intently like your life depended on it (which I doubt), you will see that I removed an element in the background. What you didn't notice?! I decided to remove the kid & dad in the background so the user will focus on the carolers, KISS (keep it simple stupid). :)

DETAIL

After I blocked the colors I added the details, line art, which needs a lot of concentration... and not breathing... and tongue sticking out on my part.

FINAL ART

And after a couple of hours tadaaaa! I would like to present my present! (get it!) I hope you had a blessed Christmas!