Weekly Inks!

New drawings today! A typical Sunday includes brunch with my family and checking out books at the bookstore. Browsing through the Art and Lifestyle section, I came across this book called "New Yorker Lookbook: A Gallery of Street Fashion" whose photos were shot by Jake Chessum. I loved the images contained in this book, specially the expression of the girl in the green coat. I decided to make a quick sketch of her and did the same with the...

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Art Stalking: Krisatomic and Garance Doré

It's 3 am in Manila and I am still up, overwhelmed by so many inspirations for my drawings. I talked about acrylic on my previous post, and I cannot wait to give it another go. Unfortunately, time does not allow me to have a good sit down and paint away. Painting takes time, so I only get to paint on weekends. On weekdays when I am busy with work (I am a software programmer by the way), I do pencil and ink drawings. The latest ones were inspired...

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Who Loves Acrylics?

One sunny day, I took an impromptu trip to a second hand book store and bought myself The DK Art School's Introduction To Acrylics. I haven't had a real go at acrylics since highschool, and that was 9 years ago, so I figured it was a good time to get myself familiarized with the medium. I immediately bought the book and an acrylic paint set.. Until a while ago when I tried the paint for the first time in a long time, I was a gouache zealot. For...

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The Daily Pill

Here's a new batch of drawings that I did over the last couple of weeks. A lot of them are simple sketches that I did during transit or in between breaks at my office. I recently got myself a small inexpensive drawing notebook for my daily doodles and sketches. I used to carry around a 9" X 12" sketchpad and for someone who has a 9 to 5 job, it can be such a hassle bringing such a big pad of paper at work when there isn't any guarantee that i can...

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Flickr Friday!

It's 4 AM in Manila and I am still up because I just simply cannot sleep. I've been browsing through Flickr since I sat in front of the computer at around 12 midnight to scan a drawing. I've been looking at photos of lotuses and water lilies as subject references and ended up researching about them in Wikipedia.com. After feeding my mind with semi-useless scientific information, I ended just looking through groups and sets of different random photographers...

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Magazine Stints Anyone?

I got another stint as an illustrator last week and I was so psyched to get in touch with YOU Magazine's editorial coordinator again. I remember getting so worked up the first time I got a text message from one of the magazine's editors who asked me to become a contributing illustrator for their November-December 2008 issue. A writer friend referred me to him and I immediately pulled a bunch of works from my Flickr account for my portfolio. I was...

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