PAWMARKS' DOODLE

Tangled

2012-01-14T04:36:00.000-08:00

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

Influence Map

2012-01-10T07:18:00.000-08:00

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!

2011-12-31T19:19:00.000-08:00

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

2011-12-19T05:39:00.000-08:00

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....

2010-11-17T03:50:00.000-08:00

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

Ninja Shirt

2010-08-08T07:16:00.000-07:00

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.

Books on Dogs and Teeth

2010-07-30T06:16:00.000-07:00

Here two graphic novels I would recommend to get. Their art style is somewhat refreshing to me after reading a lot of mangas and Marvel and DC books. Not to mention the storyline is entertaining and different.

Here's Beast of Burden: Animal Rights hardbound book by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. This book got everything I like; Horror, animal characters and Jill Thompson. I like reading horror stories and Jill Thompson is a favorite artist of mine for her Scary Godmother and Sandman books. And Evan Dorkin does a nice job making the characters interesting, and developing each of their own personalities chapter after chapter eventhough each chapter can be a stand alone story. Its a story of group of domestic dogs and one stray cat who deals and experience the supernatural from witches' pet cats, vengeful animal spirits and zombie dogs. Its like hellboy mix with Cats and Dogs.

Look! Zombie dogs. Her art style may be a little realistic on this book, but her characters facial expression fits right in, and look at these impressive traditional 'Watercolor' works!

The second book is Smile by Raina Telgemeier published by Scholastic. Yes it's a graphic novel for kids, but still its a very good read and the cartoony artworks makes improves the story even more. The book is about a sixth grader girl named Raina after she accidentally trips and fall causing her two front permanent teeth to fall out. That begins her journey to her teenage years mixed with friends, dentists and braces. Its a feel good book for those who wants a warm feeling after reading it.

I always like Reina's artwork since I saw the Babysitter Club graphic novels. Its something about her work that looks refreshing and alive to me. Its a change of pace after reading too much manga and Marvel and DC books.

Got Me Own Pen Tablet

2010-05-22T16:34:00.000-07:00

Since I replaced my 10 year old computer, I also convert my Windows XP to Windows 7, but not knowing of the consequences that will occur using that program. I like the Window 7 features compared to Xp and especially Vista. But the only major downside of it is not compatible with many of the old programs and hardware. My old games can't be played while some of it I can get their program update to the web while others are so old there's none present in the web.
My old Pen tablet isn't compatible either. So no choice but to buy a new one. I heard Wacom Bamboo isn't a good pen and its expensive. My friend raving about the CD-R King brand Pen tablet, its bigger and a hell lot cheaper and also has a good pressure sensitive function. Plan to buy it when purchased it in Alabang but they're also not compatible with the Window 7 program. So I searched for other stores to find if there's any other brand that is cheap and fit fir my PC.

I found this one. A Genius G-Pen F509, its a 5.25 x 8.75" Ultra slim Pen Tablet. It cost me about Php 4,000.00. Its a cheap price for a known brand. Rather than paying about 6,000+ on a Wacom Touch why not buy something simple. Tried it out when I got home, the pen is powered a AAA battery, comes with a holder and 2 extra pen nibs. The pressure sensitive function is to my satisfaction, can't wait to do some art using this pen.

Another feature of my very own computer table. Table top big enough for using the pen and tablet no matter how big.

My Computer Table

2010-05-02T06:11:00.000-07:00

I'm so fed up with my old computer table because of the lack of space to place my papers when doing some report, cleaning the dust off is a chore and the thing isn't stable anymore. So when I purchased a new customized PC, I made my own plan for my table and maximizing the wall space given. As you can see the plan above. Good thing we have our own fabrication section in our shop, so our carpenter made it based on my drawing specification. Thank God for this guy's talent.
After 2 weeks of work, since he can only make it when there's no work to be done. Its finally finished and varnished in a light color brown. You can see the difference below and I added some functional feature to make my access to the equipment easier.

Here you can see you can pull the drawer tray out if you want to access the scanner or the printer. While you can also pull out the PC if you to open the case or pull or attached some cord behind the unit. Of course there's a horizontal hole on the side for the cables connecting to the printer will slide easily.

Here's the table where the monitor and speaker are placed. More platform spaces and easy to clean plus hooks for your earphone and wires.

More shelf at the upper part for more storage.

I'm quite happy of how this table come out, Now the down side of it all is I can't use my Pen tablet because it wasn't compatible with Windows 7 program since it was a very old model.

Sally Collaboration

2009-11-24T03:26:00.000-08:00

Pencil art by
Vector color by

This is a collaboration between Ben Ben and me. and i'm quite happy on how it turns out. whew.

Here's Ben's pencil sketch

Bible Beauties

2009-10-22T04:30:00.000-07:00

My friend/client permitted me to post my artworks that I did for him last month. Its a set of illustration based from Biblical female characters that he is going use for his play. I'll tell you all about the play date and such when he tells me.

A Sofi Experience

2009-09-08T06:03:00.001-07:00

My Dad won 2 complimentary stubs (2 rooms) for an overnight stay in the Sofitel Hotel. And since It’s a holiday on Monday (August 31, 2009), why not use this opportunity to use it. So here I’m inside this cozy room typing this entry. Well, nothing much is happening here though. It would be better if there’s a mall near here. But if its relaxation you want, I guess this place isn’t so bad.

Zombie Babies Logo

2009-07-25T23:27:00.000-07:00

Just a logo I made a few years ago and proud of it. The name idea came from one of my friend (during our comic meeting) and since i'm into almost anything Cute Gothic art style, i got excited on designing it. We're gonna use this as our brand for a comic book collaborations project with my friends; but alas it didn't continue. So i'm thinking of using this one as a brand maybe on a printed clothes or something.

Still with the Z Bug

2009-06-29T06:57:00.000-07:00

Just need to loosen up, its been a while since my last vector artwork. And since im still bitten with the Mazinger Z bug. After doing Mazinger Z artwork I have to do this type of work also. Yeah I'm a Mazinger Z fan boy; Heck I also got the Hong Kong version Anime DVD TV series eventhough the english subtitles are as suck as hell.

My Dream Shirt!

2009-06-26T07:49:00.000-07:00

I'm a geek when it comes to super robots especially "Mazinger Z", I always want to have my own Mazinger Z shirt. So I plan to make this one called a "Z-Shirt" get it?... Never mind, anyway, might plan to make this one a reality soon. Wish me luck.

Here's the close up of the head...

What I'm doodling now...

2009-06-13T22:27:00.000-07:00

Here's a color pencil artwork of Sakura from Street Fighter. Here at the left seems I didn't like how the color of her uniform come out so I have to cut it and try doing it again on a clean sheet of paper. And yes I still don't have a new scanner yet. So might as well do it old school for now. I still need a lot of practice.

Alita 2 Sketch

2009-05-27T07:42:00.000-07:00

A very good friend of mine, Nixon has been doing some "Art Jam" sometime and recently our "charcter in Topic" today is Alita (or Gully in Japan) from the Battle Angel Alita (Gunm in Japan). As you can see from my previous post of my cute version of Alita. But after seeing my friend's wonderful artwork (eventhough in pencils only so its still unfinished) and after seeing the other artist works from the convention. I missed doing some doodles using my old or other art style, itching to do that, finally doing this sketch and maybe will finish inking it this week and Im tempted on trying ink Nix' artwork also.

YUI

2009-05-05T21:31:00.000-07:00

Here's the pencils and the finished artwork of my latest artwork. This is Yui, the guitarist from the K-ON! anime which I blog in before. In there I have to trace the guitar instrument picture since I never drawn a guitar before. Hope Y'all like it.

Sally Pose

2009-04-26T05:51:00.000-07:00

Just practicing coloring Sally.

Blacksad

2009-04-23T08:14:00.000-07:00

My latest artwork, its been a while since I draw furry arts and i missed doing drawing 'em.

Hold Up!

2009-04-22T05:48:00.000-07:00

Yesterday afternoon at around 3pm, We witnessed a crime being committed (sort of). As my Dad and myself were on our way to Alabang, we heard a couple of loud "popping sounds" from about 4 cars away the front of us. My Dad recognized the sound as gunshots being fired, So we decide to do a U-turn before traffic builds up and away from ground zero. As we almost position the vehicle on the other side, the 2 robbers from behind ran passed us towards the 3rd guy with his motorcycle (which is really in front of us by about 2 mtrs far apart). But because there's three people riding the bike and the hastiness to escape cause them to loose their balance and crashed down.

Because of the fall, the money stolen (I don't know if its in an big envelope or paper bag.) fell out, I mean bundles of cash of thousand peso bills and five hundred bills spread through out the streets. With no other choice maybe afraid of being caught, they just run away as fast as they could leaving the money open to anyone. And you're giess is as good as mine to what happens next; people from all sides zoom towards the money like rats getting the food scraps. It only took less than 5 minutes before the money was cleared off the street and not one single bill left. And there's not a police coming yet and the robbers got away. So as we U-turn again back to where we're suppose to go , we passed by the car that has been hold up and saw the passenger, a girl dead. I have to admit that this is a sad and scary experience seeing the victim ended this way and the culprit got away to boot.

Aisaka Taiga

2009-04-18T10:02:00.000-07:00

Here's my latest work. Its Aisaka Taiga from the anime "Toradora". I like the anime and characters even this gal.

Finger Lickin' Good

2009-04-17T05:59:00.000-07:00

I like to thank Mr. Gerry Alanguilan, (check out his blog.) for giving me the opportunity to purchase his Elmer gift set (he's the author of the book for your info). I was a bit sad when I found out that his Elmer box sets were sold out (there's only 20 of them that exist... so its very, very, very limited.) But after some time, to my surprised when I got an E- mail from Gerry asking if I'm still interested to buy the set? (I think somebody cancelled his/her reservation or he has an extra copy.) Without a second thought, I said "Yes " and here it is. Thie Elmer box set reminds me of those special packaged graphic novel set like "Watchmen: Absolute Edition" or "Absolute Ba tman:HUSH" or any other "Absolute" books. I guess this makes it an "Absolute Elmer" edition. Hehehe...

This special compilation of his latest graphic novel, "Elmer" is a story of "what if chicken began to talk and act like us humans?" Its a history told from a journal of a chicken named Elmer and was read by his son, Jake. And I gotta say that the story is heartwarming, interesting and makes me want to read it many times and still feel good after reading the story. Its the same kind of feeling after going through Arnold Arre's books like Mythology Class and Martial Law Babies. Guess I'm the type who's interested in a "Slice of Life" storyline. Just take a look of the books and films I collect and downloaded, half of them are in that genre. And the artworks are well drawn and the detail from the chicken's feather to the background... Amazing. Wish I can ink and draw as good as Gerry Alanguilan's works. Not to mention the well made craftmanship of the hardbound binding and the box itself. M'am Ilyn (Paper Basket) does a masterful job, it shows that she has a talent on a professional level. I haven't watch the Disc included in the box which is "Chicken Joy: The ElmerDocumentary" by Edgar Tadeo which I'm sure that it'll be a interesting to watch.

As you can see the picture above is whats inside the gift set. Its full of extra neat things. Like the CD, Postcard, Original artwork and stuff. I think this link will explain a whole lot in detail and has better picture quality. I hope more of these were made, so people can enjoy them as much as I do.

Blacksad

2009-03-30T08:08:00.000-07:00

Blacksad is a French printed comic book written by talented spanish authors Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist). Its about a freelance feline detective name ...well... Blacksad living in an alternate world where the whole population of the world are animals. It filled with danger, drama and mystery in noir type of setting. I stumbled upon 2 of its book (Blacksad and Blacksad Arctic-nation) in Power Books and they're in english version. And man' they blew me away page by page, the story flow is nice, and the characters are very well depicted; and the artwork by Guarnido is really what impresses me. I mean they're all watercolor, there's no cgi and stuff and the details and backgrounds are amazing is what I can describe his works. Anyway There's still another untranslated Blacksad title have come out (Ame Rouge). Hopefully it gets a english release soon. If you see any more copies of Blacksad, get it and I promise that you'll not regret buying it.

Check out the interior art taken from the book "Ame Rouge".

On a final note, its been a while since I draw a furry art/ anthromorph style. Since we're talking about Blacksad here, so I plan making a fanart of one of my favorite feline.

So far here's some drawings I copied from the book just to get the feel, and head structure of Blacksad. This is going to be a long week.

As you can see there's still a lot of rough edges needs fixing but getting there. Since my scanner is broken, I have to satisfy myself with a digital camera.

Sally Grimoire

2009-03-20T08:59:00.000-07:00

Finally finished this piece tonight. Here's Sally and her friend Frank. Notice I use different shades of Orange colors for Sally while Frank has a different shades of green.

Oh and today its my sister Jean's birthday. Happy birthday Sis!!!

Sally Grimoire and Frank Einstein Copyright John Michael Lu

Gunm Artwork Process

2009-03-18T06:56:00.000-07:00

First step, sketching and conceptualization.

Coloring and finalization in Adobe Photoshop.

And last, the finished piece and of course there are some changes and corrections along the way.

Darkstalkers Entry

2009-03-17T09:43:00.001-07:00

Since I didn't make it to the contest. Its now allow to post your entries here. So here they are. I was hoping fo rthe second one to make it, but oh well, Enjoy!

Masked Cat

2009-03-11T08:08:00.001-07:00

Hey ! Look! It's Kamen Neko!!! or Masked cat in english. Inspired from the Kamen Rider series with a cute and furry twist.

Bio Boost !!!

2009-03-08T08:54:00.001-07:00

Here's Guyver I , and Guyver III in the shadow behind. I really like the design of their armors and very hard to draw by the way.

My next project....

AH CRAP!!!!

2009-03-08T07:48:00.000-07:00

EEEEEEEEEH!!!!!! My scanner gone kaput! My computer doesn't detect it anymore. So I have no choice but to use a disgital camera. Right now, I'll just post some character sketches of Sally Grimriore. But she's still under development.

I want Sally's figure to be simple, slender and more expressive especially the face. Testing if making her eyes bigger is better compare to her past design without making her look cute and too young.

Here some practice expressions I'd done of Sally. Sorry if the picture is somewhat poor. But with the scanner being broken. This is the best I could do by using a digital camera.

Captain America Doodle

2009-03-04T08:25:00.000-08:00

Here's a drawing of one of my favorite hero Captain America. Eventhough politcally weird and as silly to batman. I find this character very cool. Maybe its the shield.

Minami-Ke

2009-03-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

Finally finished coloring the Minami-Ke piece that i'm working on these past few days. I made a lot of changes especially the pigtail girl character rather than raising one, I change it to both hands as to be the same as the anime series.

Speaking of anime series, I really recommend this title. Its quite a change after watching too much excitment, action and horror films. Its a change of pace watching a light slice of life comedy about the life of three minami sister doing ordinary things in a n funny way.

Here are some close up of their faces since the image is quite small.

Here's Haruka Minami, the eldest sister. She's kind of a mother to the other two siblings. She's sweet, cheerful, mature and heart of the family.

Then there's the middle sister Kana Minami, the hyper energetic, Mischievous and quite lovable person. Sometimes a troublemaker and often plays trick on Chiaki.

Finally, the youngest, Chiaki Minami, she acts like a responsible adult. But she's also silly, tough, bossy and innocent in her own funny way. which is why sometime she falls victim to Kana's antics.

Doodling right now....

2009-02-26T08:45:00.000-08:00

I'm doing this right now. Its Minami sisters from the anime series Minami-Ke. I really love that series. It still need a lot of tweaking, I'll fix it when I do the colors in Adobe Photoshop.

Darkstalker Madness and then some...

2009-02-26T08:30:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I'm doing an entry for the Darkstalker Tribute with the deadline coming and glad I finished it since last week, so I'll just post some part of a whole poster. Hope you guys like it. Here's from top to bottom Morrigan, BB Hood and Q Bee.

This one comes in form of a request from a fellow deviantart artist and ask me to do his characters into my own style. I see this as an opportunity to practice and you know how i like doing fanart whenever a character is interesting to draw. Also Check his deviantart page http://newgirlcomic.deviantart.com/

Doodles for the month

2009-02-26T08:07:00.000-08:00

Since this is "Pawmark's Doodles", better to put some doodles and artworks for the month. Since now i'm using or have a new style, I want to show you what drawings I done so far....

Here's what I first did for this year. and I'm proud of it somewhat. I like how the mixture of different shades of red and pink interacts together.

I like to do fanart of characters I like. The one on Top is Skuld from the anime series and manga "Ah! My Goddess!" and the left one is Iris from a local childrens comic magazine called" Private Iris" and the right one is Claire from the mnaga/ Anime series titled "Claymore". Expect a lot more fanart in the future.

Work in Progress.....

2009-02-15T00:52:00.000-08:00

Right now finishing up Felicia from "Darkstalker" using photoshop. She going to be my second entry for the Darkstalkers Tribute contest. After that I'll be doing some close up faces of the other gals from the game as her background.

Martial Law Babies

2009-01-10T04:07:00.000-08:00

Finally get my blog up and running. And I wanna say welcome and hope this will not bore you and enjoy and read what my life is as it passes by.

Anyway, I just got this new book by Arnold Arre titled "Martial Law Babies", I bought it online through the link of his personal website or http://www.martiallawbabies.com.

Ordering online is cheaper & convenient for me and why? you asked. Well, I lived in Calamba, Laguna (a far away province from the City); So coming down to Manila will cost me about Php 186.00 for the toll fee (back & forth), 1/4 tank of car gas will be spent and Php 45.00 just for parking to the mall. All these compare to hmmm.... Php 50.00 shipment fee plus an autograph by the said author of the book. Any questions?

I like Arnold Arre's works from "Batch '72" (Story by Budjette Tan) to his action packed graphic novel "Andong Agimat". I saw his new book "Martial Law Babies" selling online and immediately ordered it and after 4 (I think) days after confirmation, the package just arrived now in my hands. Opened it; and a whopping thick book of graphical panels at every page.

I finished reading just now. And I like it very, very, very, very much that I spent it reading during office hours. The story is about the life of a group of friends since they were children until they are now adults. Its a tale of each ups and downs, their adventures and drama nothing superheroic. I like reading and watching these slice of life topics same goes for my taste in movies and animes. The book give you a funny but good feeling inside and after reading I feel like smiling and showing a wide grin from my face. And makes it as my first topic in my blog. It is an absolute recommendation to both comic and non comic book fans.