Sera - Waterlilies

Found an old illustration that I did back in 2002 with one of my original characters when I used to associate them with the water lily flower. Did an update with the concept idea. 

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.

You can buy their series here.

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. 

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.