WHOAAA!!!!

I’m imitating Ramon Zamora the Bruce Lee of the Philippines. I’m in my own world during those times. I used to watch lot’s of Kung Fu movies specially Jackie Chan’s early movies that were produced in Hong Kong. I bought myself plastic chucks so that if I accidentally hit myself it’s not going to hurt. I’ll be visiting my family in the Philippines for a month. I’m sure the trip will bring back lots of childhood memories.

Kalesa

I haven't posted in a while. My apologies, my computer is still down. This is a collage piece of a kalesa. It was once a popular mode of transportation during the spanish regime in the Philippines. Hope you like it.

SHAQ-A-DOODLE

Did this doodle while watching the Suns and the Spurs' game 5 of the play off series. Since the matrix left, the Suns were no longer a high octane run and gun fast breaking team. Suns lost 'again'! Oh well, good job Suns, see ya’ll next year! Here’s Shaq-a-doodle! What happened? Bill Simmos says: HERE.

Jake and the Beanstalk

Pop goes Jake

YAKUZA

YAKUZA Japanese mafia

JACKO-BOT

I thought of posting an old school robot. Then I came up with this... strange.

You are what you eat.

This is an artjumble piece.

Brandon Vera

This is a photo-realistic piece of Brandon Michael "The Truth" Vera. He is a half Filipino and half American-Italian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, currently fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) as a heavyweight He currently resides in San Diego California. What's really cool is that he speaks fluent tagalog and is very proud of being a Filipino.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Vera

Beastie Boys

Beast

Done in Photoshop.

Batman

Played with photoshop and came up with this one .

Green Monster

A green quicky.

Darna

Hope you like this one. I was so busy but can't resist to finish this for Artjumble.

Darna is a very famous fictional character in the Philippines. Created by Mars Ravelo back in the 50's. She is truly an icon. Over the years Darna has appeared in about 14 or more films portrayed by prominent actresses of Philippine movies.

more :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darna
http://marsravelodarna.tripod.com/id1.html

Shokoy

I posted this on ArtJumble. It’s my first time to use pen tablet to render a character. I only use it to render backgrounds. I struggled at first because the one I used is so small, I think it’s
3”x 4”. I got the hang of it later on. In the Philippines we call this creature “Shokoy”. Usually it’s half man (body) half fish (head). But, this one is a little different.

Random Nerd

This week's topic at AJ is "Nerds". My apologies to whomever resembles this guy. It's totally random. Blame my pencil.

RunningMan

I did this sketch during lunch break.

Dragon

I was about to post this on AJ but didn’t finish it on time. I had a couple of sketches and I decided to go for this one. I didn’t vectorize the lines so it's sketchy. Thought of posting it black and white but decided to color it. Then, I tried to put some textures. I will keep the PSD file of this maybe I can find time to put some cool shadings and textures on it.

Skin

Tried some desktop skins. I really had fun doing this. Wish to have more free time to create more stuff for my blog. Enjoy...

Video Player Skins

Played with photoshop and came up with these skins.

The Bull And The Bully

I haven't posted in a while. These two fought each other. Guess who got the better of the two. This project is currently in the first phase of development. No Title yet. Coming Soon.

Vina Morales

Filipina singer actress Vina Morales. I got her signed this artwork when I met her before her concert in Phoenix.

Pirates Of Darkwater

Ioz and Niddler are two of the main characters of Pirates of Darkwater. I did this TV series back in the 90's while working for Hanna Barbera in the Philippines. This was the show assigned to us 9th batch trainees at Fil Cartoons. It's a tough show especially when you are just entering into the world of animation. The character design with all those details will kill you especially when you are in a quota system. Later on we understood why our trainors gave the show to us. It improved our skills and boosted our confidence. So, thanks Angie, Ochie and Nary!

Elephant

Pencil rocks. With all the available technologies out there pencil is still my favorite medium. Did this using HB Staedtler pencil.

Vlad and Sofie

One of my scenes from the movie Anastasia.

Green...

Uhh...NO! Green is not my favorite color. I think I did 4 different versions of this one. I played with photoshop and messed around with brush and styles just to have a background. Turned out nice.

Print

I made this t shirt design for our church's family camp. CLIMB -Christian Living In Might and Boldness. The climber represents christians, the rope (not so visible) represents God, rock represents obstacles in life and the graphics at the bottom left represents hell. I was so inspired while doing this one.

My first post

So, I have to post something to get this thing started. I went through my files and found this illustration I did about 7 years ago. I adjusted the saturation to kinda match the backgrounds. It brought back memories. I remember drawing this in my cube at Fox Animation Studios while inbetween projects. I missed the free snacks and the Kenny Rogers chicken every Saturdays. Not the pizza though.