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!)

Wordless Wednesday

Arteng Pinay Financial Workshop 2

Did my second talk for Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy.
Here are some slides that I made. :) Speakers are: Rhea Moccoro talked about personal finance. (Kuripot Pinay). Krissy Domingo talked about mutual funds. (Money Life Blood). Guest Speaker Marvin Germo. :) I am an advocate of financial literacy for artists and musicians because I believe that no artist should starve.

And here we are after the talk with the speakers and participants!
(c) photo Krissy Domingo

Blush

Hello everyone here's a quick sketch before I hit the sack! Enjoy! Started doing these GIFs of my work.

Exotic illustration step by step tutorial

Welcome to another series of step by step tutorial. 

I did this digital painting of monkeys in a jungle for my exotic entry for Illustration Friday. :)
This illustration was quite a challenge, since there are a lot of characters in the artwork. Doing different expressions and making the artwork blend together was my main challenge here.

steps in animation

I started out with a simple line sketching in photoshop. These are very loose quick strokes just to position the elements, these are just guides and will be deleted later on. Next step is to create another layer to make the line drawing. Then blocking out the shapes using base tones. Checking how dark or light the image is. 

Next is coloring the artwork, initially I wanted the monkeys to be blue, to make them look exotic, but when I look at it, they don't blend with the artwork well. So I changed them to brown but made their faces blue. :)

Next are the monkeys!!! This took a while since each monkey has a different character. I only use one brush for this piece adobe photoshop round brush with opacity 50% and flow at 20%.

When I'm done with the details I look on the overall and checked the lighting using photoshop's auto tone and contrast. And it's finished! :)

illustration friday exotic

My entry for this week's illustration friday. Topic is exotic. :)

Comfort Zone painting tutorial

Welcome to another series of my step by step watercolor panting tutorials.
Today's piece was my entry for the  de kahon art fair at the collective. Did this artwork in 4 days. (Monday-Thursday) then submitted it on Friday just in time for the show on Saturday!

I already have an idea in my mind. I just sketched it first and draw it in my computer. I did this to get the values first. When I'm happy with the composition I tried to add colors and experiment. (I used photoshop to add the shadows and colors for the study, since I don't have enough time to do this traditionally, thank you photoshop! :) changing colors is just a click away!)

Step 1:  Wash
Used the wet on wet technique. I used yellows and some greens as base colors to give a warm tone to the artwork. As you can see the paper is very wet, I love how the colors bleed. After this I left the painting to dry.

step 2: Fill in the base colors

When the paper is dry I started filling in the rest of the colors. I checked my study in photoshop for the color palette and started painting. These are just base colors. Note: Used light colors for the base then started building up the colors with darker tones.

Step 3: Adding foreground and overlaying colors

After the base colors are dry, the next step is to add the foreground and to slowly build the colors by adding color overlays. 

FOREGROUND: I added bushes and trees for the foreground. This also helps me frame the piece and lead the viewer's eyes to the subject. 

OVERLAYS: I used darker shades of greens to build up the colors of the bushes. I used my liner brush for the leaves. These are applied using the dry on dry technique.

Step 4: Adding details

Used the liner brush and watercolor pencils to add the details. This took a while maybe around two sessions for the details alone. At this stage the image starts to come alive. Adding the shadows and highlights really made the arwork pop! :)

Step 5: Final Artwork

After this I gave myself a pat on the back and went to sleep! :) Thank you for reading this tut. Comments & suggestions are very much appreciated.