Hello 2020

Book illustration projects this 2020!

Starting this year with a blast! Here are some of my projects (Launched and launching soon, this year!)

New book cover design for Ronald Cagape's "How to Make Money in Real Estate in the Philippines".

#LadyBoss Conversations with Ladies who Run the Money World. To be launched this year.

#FlyHigh Financial Planner 2020

That's it for now. Will post more projects soon!

Art in the Future Market

It was my first time to visit 98B's Future Market in Escolta. (I know, i know it took a while, I'm busy okay! :) )  We have a passion project coming up details on this soon. :) So we went there to look at the place and took some photos. Of course I wasn't able to stop myself from looking and admiring works from awesome artists there! And I ended up spending more than what I'm supposed to. haha

The Ocular Team
From left to right: Chay, Franz, Bryan, Mita, Future Market poster

Fist stop was Ardie Aquino's Eddie comic. I like it because first it is a one off, second it was funny, and most of all because the illustration is cute! :) You can check out his fb page here. The 24 page comic costs Php 70, and some smaller ones are Php 30 I think.

Fan mode on! Ardie Aquino Comics

Next stop is Hapiwasabi by Karen Versoza. :) I love her minimalist style these postcards are sold for Php50/ea and the black and white print for Php 30. :) She also has framed pieces that are priced at Php300 and up. I plan to frame these postcards and post it on my wall for inspiration.

The artist signing her print. :)

I love the simplicity of this illustration.

And Cheryl Owen I love her work and so spot on the future market's theme of sorbetes.
I bought her digital print for Php200. You can also buy her original artwork for 4k.

Overall my first Future Market is awesome! I love the artist vibe and the entrepreneurial spirit.
Which made me think of selling some of my own stuff too! :)

I didn't stay too long because it was so hot! The sorbetes theme made me crave for Big Scoop ice cream, which luckily was just a few steps away from 98B.

Invest in Yourself

One of my goal this year is to improve my skill, especially in children's book illustration. So I looked at classes online and found SVS (School of Visual Storytelling) class. Although it took a bit of my savings (ouch!) $320 is a lot here in the Philippines (Same price to get that 3 days and 2 nights vacation trip to Bangkok!). Spending for my education is one of the best decisions I've made (...or that's what I tell myself, really that trip to Bangkok is really nice haha). ;)

I just finished part 1 of the video and I'm doing the workbook exercises. First task is to design a simplified character. I did a few sketches and decided to render one of them. :) And the winner is this cute pudgy-fied baby bear! :)

Took a photo from my sketch and did the rendered illustration digitally using photoshop. You can see the steps below. As always I started with getting the sketch done, and blocking out the colors using one color to get the values right, then adding color overlays to finish it off. :)

I'm looking forward to do the rest of the exercises in the workbook, will be posting them so stay tuned. :) 

How about you how do you invest in yourself?

Taking the leap into the year of the sheep!

Jan 1, 2015 How time flies! To celebrate the new year I made an illustration of a fluffy sheep! :) 2014 has been awesome and I'm looking forward to 2015, this year I have bigger and better goals. One of them is to improve my skill, so I will be making time to enroll at an online course, read more art books, create more art, and share my learnings in this blog. :) I have made a learning fund from my budget. I really wanted to get Imaginism studios' classes & SVS online course on children's book illustration, I'm still looking on how to afford them both but from my current income I can only afford one per year.

I want to improve my character poses making them more dynamic and relatable and also the character expression (I think I need to look at the mirror more often). And do a lot of drawing from life, and outdoor sketching. :)

Below are the steps on how I made this illustration. Start off with the usual grayscale illustration to get the values right. Then slowly adding colors by adding another layer of color overlay and build up the colors from there.

I hope this new year brings more blessings and learnings to you. And I want to thank you for reading my posts through the years! :) 

Peacocking

Jizz Jazz artwork. Used watercolor & watercolor pencils. Took me about a week to finish each piece, doing most of the work on weekends.

day 4 Eyescream

If ice cream have eyes would you eat them? :)

Blush

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

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Fresh

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

Back to school illustrations

Tomorrow starts the first day of school here in the Philippines. Which reminds me I need to wake up early to go to work or get stuck in traffic. So anyway back to my post, I did this school illustrations for a children's learning center website. Instead of creating the characters in photoshop I decided to draw and paint them traditionally, using my good ol set of watercolor. I enjoyed this project since the client gave me a lot of freedom to do what I want. :)

Some elements i did

happy student watercolor on paper

more pictures :)

Did this illustrations using my sketchpad (not watercolor paper) they warped a bit but fortunately it didn't show much in the picture. I adjusted the colors and did the layout in Photoshop.  

You can check out the website here.

Mother's day

Stayed up late last night to finish my mother's day card greeting. Too bad my mom woke up and saw me doing it. :( no more surprise! Anyway thank you mom for not forcing me to enter med school and for your support when i was struggling with my craft. It really means a lot i love you! :)

Wordless Wednesday

Be Awesome

Happy Easter!
After a week of not blogging, I'm back!
So in line with easter, new life & new beginnings why not start it by being awesome! :)