Wordless Wednesday

Graphika Manila 2013

My first Graphika Manila conference yesterday was a blast! :) All of the speakers had one thing in common, they love doing their craft. It's really their passion that fuels them to do great and awesome things!

JAMES WHITE / signal noise / graphic design

• have personal projects, the kind that makes you stay up in the morning until 3am
• do what you love to do even if there is no monetary gain in it, eventually money will follow
• if you don't have client work, do personal projects
• explore. play.
• on social media don't try to do all, just select some where you can maximize its effects, or where you can best promote your art

Here are some of James' work:

Rocketeer comic cover by James White, click the image to view his portfolio

We left the conference feeling inspired by the speakers! Will update this with the rest of the awesome people! :)

Purple Pig Balloon

We love birthday surprises at the office. So when the head of our accounts got a year older we decided to surprise her with the things she like! And she likes purple things & pigs.
What better way to surprise her with a purple pig balloon! Everybody at the office gave her a purple balloon with a birthday greeting. So I drew a pig and since I belong to the digital department, I decided to give her a QR code message! (because it makes me look techie & cool! niyahaha) :)

Happy Birthday Rissa! :)

A toy story

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

Pot Illustration

My first post for 2013 yay! Got another commish illustration from a friend. She's very stylish and loves to collect pigs, that's why there are cute pink pigs on her dress. :)

Did an initial sketch & color study first before I proceed with the final artwork. It took the few remaining hours of my weekend last week. I hope she likes it.

That's it for now. I have a few personal projects I'm currently working on, hopefully i'll be able to finish some of them this month!