Testing the Markers

I'm always intrigued on using markers especially the copic brand. So I finally bought a small set of my own. Its a set of gray tones W Series, So i don't need to buy every color, Gray suits me fine for basic shading. I also want to do a new style of artwork, such us making my artwork a little more semi realistic approach rather than a cartoon type. But from the looks of it, I still have a very long way to both on drawing and marker rendering.

Tangled

I love the Disney Movie 'Tangled'. The characters are fun,interesting and  there's no corny sing a long.

Influence Map

Everybody in Deviantart is doing this thing so I decided why not join them. Its like a family tree except its all the things and people that inspire to draw and influence your drawing style.

The artists who influence my art style:
Kosuke Fujishima (Ah My Goddess! Mangaka)
Range Murata (Last Exile Character Designer)
FSC (Artist of Nightmare and Fairy Tales)
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion Character Designer)
Masakazu Katsura (I's and Zetman Mangaka)
Mike Mignola (Creator of Helboy)
Gurihiru (Artist of Power Pack)
Tracy Butler (Lackdaisy Creator)
Humberto Ramos (Marvel Artist)
Bruce Timm (Batman Animated Designer)
Eric W. Schwartz (Sabrina Online Author)
Takehito Harada (Game Character Designer)
Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross Character Designer)
Yuji Iwahara (King of Thorn Mangaka)
Naoki Urasawa (20th Century Boy Mangaka)
Eichiro Oda (One Piece Mangaka)

So Who or What's your influence in art or your life?

Happy New Year!

Hah! First entry for the New Year! Been a long time of wanting to do since its OVA has been released. But finding the right picture for reference especially the front view is very hard. Anyway, planning on putting this baby on a black shirt. Using only two colors would lessen the cost (I hope fingers crossed.)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! Welcome 2012 !!!!

When Sendong Strikes

December 17, 2011. News about a typhoon coming over the country of the Philippines. Everyone thought that this is just some ordinary typhoon, nothing big and not that very dangerous. When tragedy struck onto the place of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City. Its Ondoy all over again, And we thought we learned our lesson because of that incident and well... here it is again. Massive floods and winds poured on the unsuspecting homes and families resulting to 652 deaths, 800 missing, millions of peso in property damage and its still climbing. What added salt to the wound is that Christmas is just a few days away. 

Seeing people without their homes and having a family member killed, I just can't imagine how hard it is for them to live everyday without shelter, food, water and security. All I could do is somehow donate and spread the word by using this blog (if anybody is reading this.) Anyway, I hope you can help and give all you can to your fellow brothers and sisters. 

Pictures Taken from: www.ronaldredito.org and http://photogallery.thestar.com/1103662

For more info:
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/19896/sendong-number-of-fatalities-now-at-652-hundreds-remain-missing
http://ronaldredito.org/blog/2271/how-to-help-cdo-iligan-and-other-victims-of-typhoon-sendong/
http://inagist.com/ABSCBNNews/147931802584092672/
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/

For Donations:
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/image/public-service/12/18/11/sagip-kapamilya-operation-sendong
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/242108/news/nation/gma-kapuso-foundation-appeals-for-donations-for-sendong-victims
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=760098&publicationSubCategoryId=200

Some Sketches....

Here's some sketches I've been doing just to escape boredom at the office...

Ninja Shirt

A concept T-shirt print design based on Polyhedron's cute ninja in Cadre's "Trina".

The Trina from the comic book drawn by my friend Ron Escultura and inked by me.