Tankadere 3 Submission

So we finally got the green light from the Crabtank people to upload our submissions to their comic anthology, Tankadere 3 'Daring Dames'. This was my splash page illustration for the book.

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Nostalgia and Pose Push

 I was still pretty bummed over my shoddy grayscale work in C.F.Illustration, so I tried doing some exercises in my ntbk. Now if I could only just do the same with freaking acryclics. The others were doodles for the illustration ideas I have in mind for the 9/11 assignment, mostly the moment when my ma woke me up in the middle of the night (Philippines) so we could watch the news on the twin tower attacks.

Afterwards, I went over to my InterDisciplinary Class wherein I had a bad case of the heebie jeebies, since I wasn't so sure if relating Fernando Amarsolo's work to my WIP of my GGKids based on Personal Nostalgia* is what the teachers were looking for. I mean, some people were going deep with their symbolisms and metaphysical interpretations (of their source or own works).

Fortunately, it worked out all right for, and some people even gave me compliments to my presentation.

*Fernand Amarsolo- Filipino painter, dude who pretty much captured the 'Idyllic Nostalgic Filipino provincial lifestyle' with his always sunny and lively colors and use of the Backlight technique. I related this to my illustration, which when I think about it, was an unconscious nostalgia for old times- that being these kids and just doing their story; back when I was in High School, just doodling comics and their adventures for the hell of it and getting praises from friends and family. Not having to worry about character design, plot, story, future, school tuitions, etc.

For 3D Animation 2 we did some more ball bounce tests (bleh, think I did worse than before) and some pose  modelling. Teacher generally said push the poses more. 

Night before school

Mmm stuff that's happened during the month of August-

-Saw Ong Bak with my bro
-Finished FF13
-Managed to upload some comic pages on my DA
-Saw my sis again in LA
-Managed to finish one story (Terra) from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and started a new one.
-Window shopping and debating between a new laptop or a desktop.
-Gonna move back to dorm in about...*checks time*  6 hours from now. Whelp.

Flip flop of emotions. A week away from school starting, and i still feel a little-nah, a lot disappointed with my summer achievements. I think the most positive things I've gotten was just overall relaxing, just being around a lot of babies, having fun, slightly being more present in Facebook, just reconnecting with friends again, and getting a lot of love and links from my siblings. Well I'm rambling.

Update on stuff

Bleh. I only seem to be 'artistically motivated' between the 1-2 am window; in which my brain is too bloody tired to be self defeating and cynical and whatnot so when that happens I can draw in peace.

Which pretty much stinks. It's essentially what I also do in previous semesters of work: I end up working on the last minute because I waste most of the time worrying and fidgeting until the final point, in which case my left brain gives up on me, telling me 'FORGET THIS- at this point ANYTHING is better than NOTHING' and then my mind is just free to do it's thing.

Apart from that, I've spent Saturday exploring the Exploratorium with my siblings and having a sushi dinner, and today I've had lunch with relatives and got stuffed eating more sushi. Delicious.

End of June and plans for this blog

So- finally got a mess of classwork sketches and notebook pics sorted out, and while I will be uploaded and backposting all of them (i'm that nutty on timeline 8| ), the plan is to use this blog to upload stuff that I normally don't upload in my Deviantart account.

So-
-post all Real Life/outdoor sketches that I've done in my classes or sketchbook, and comment on them.
-post artwork/ WIP artwork with some commentary of it's process.
(Well since I'm backpedalling my previous classes I can't remember a lot of the pointers or processes that went into them unfortunately.)
-any concept art, regardless of how extremely sketchy it may be. Might as well start somewhere.

So what do I have in my Photoshop bucket that's in the works?

Sleeping with the Fishes, a redo of an old concept art -

-This fugly old one.

Trees

An attempt at doing some kind of Japanese Print 

And another attempt at doing digital rendering