Curtain in the sky...

I heard them calling this as "Lagundrina" and I stick to this name. I'm not sure if it's actually "La Curtina" or "di kurtina". This is my favorite kite.

"Lagundrina" (ballpen > drawing paper)

Kids want big wheels too...

One Saturday night, Amapo came home from work with his usual big bag, but this time it is heavier. He called me to show me something. WOW!! Two big wheels, that what's the bamboo for he's fitting the other weekend. He didn't sleep until he finished assembling it and I've been longing for the cockcrow even before he finished it. It's a big show off tomorrow.

"Pagilong" (ballpen > drawing paper)

Garboy Again

He hates seeing garbage, especially a smokey mountain piled of trashes... and he hates those people causing wasteful garbage, if you're one, he will dump you in a smokey mountain, then leave you there alive...

(medium marker, colored pencil > sketch pad) + garbage's image > photoshop

GarBoy

Proposal for a game character.

He was dumped into a third world country's smokey garbage mountain, was saved by a kind hearted garbage truck driver. He was bought and smuggled by a crazy doctor/scientist eager to experiment some new discoveries. Revived into good health and repaired some physical defects. Now GarBoy is on a mission... ABANGAN!!

(fine marker, colored pecil > drawing paper)>photoshop

Ninang Yeona...

Portrait of Elnot's ninang. "Daddy, you draw ninang Yeona (Rona), you make her a little bit taller..."

(ballpen > drawing paper)

You need a longer string...

A kite is a flying tethered object that depends upon the tension of a tethering system. (wiki) Guryon, saranggola, bulador... these are the general terms we used to call it in my home barrio. I used to like flying kites so much I can't stop till sunset. I'm actually always looking forward to fly kites every time I go to my hometown. We also have model name for each type and make of our kite, we call this one "Pupuwitin".

(fountain pen > spring notebook)

Color Test #2...

Hopefully I can get necessary time to use my watercolor more, I want to post nicer watercolor pieces here...


(watercolor > drawing paper)

Color Test...

Bought two sets of watercolor nine years ago, managed to keep it safe and they're still watercolor...

(watercolor > drawing paper)

When I was young, I can cut my own hair...

"No! Daddy, when we go to Lolo A'po's house, you can make one for me, here we can go to Toy's R Us,... yes Daddy??".
":((".

Old hobby...

Drawing is a forgotten hobby, it is being rekindle as Elnot always bug me to draw anything come to his mind...
I am trying to pick it up again...


(ballpen > spring notebook)

What are you talking about...? #2

DADDY! DaDDY! I want a gun Daddy!!


(ballpen > drawing paper)

What are you talking about...? #1

DADDY! DADDY! Can you help me kill the police...!!!

(ballpen > drawing paper )

Side Profile of a Lady

A lady's side profile... unfinished.


(lead pencil > bond paper)

Side profile... uncle from coffee shop

Found inside my sketchbook...

(Pilot gel ballpen > bond paper)

One of my dreams, to be a comics illustrator...

Comics brush strokes pratice... tried on one sad lady sketch.

(India ink, brush > drawing paper)

A sketch of a boy

Sketch of a boy side profile. I want to create a charcoal portrait for Elon, but I didn't manage to do it.

(lead pencil > sketchbook)

I still think she looks like Alice Dixon...

A office mate whom I always liken to Alice Dixon. This unfinished drawing doesn't look like her, but this is actually a collection of small efforts every lunch break so I kept it.


(Lead pencil, small marker, ballpoint pen > bond paper)

Maybe it's the same lady...

Yes, this could be the same lady..., it's on the next page of the sketchbook, she looks sad also, maybe because she can't see me too.


(Lead pencil > sketchbook)

Sketch of a Lady

During university time, I love doodling side profile of a human face and I remember a friend commented, "How come you always draw a sad face...?" Only then I noticed, and digging through my sketchbooks I can't find any smiling side profile. Hmmn, maybe because they can't see me...


Yes, I will try to do it and post here.

(Lead pencil on my sketchbook.)

Elnot and Mikko

My two boys have a lot of funny naughtiness that I want to put into comics, this is a study for comics character. I used fountain pen on bond paper.

Milang's Portrait

This is Milang's portrait created last night using a black medium Sheaffer ballpoint pen on drawing paper, she likes this one but I like the one below...


I used a giveaway black ballpen, the one I found inside Elon's loot bag from a kids' party...


Cheap fountain pen on bond paper...

Elnot

"Daddy, can you draw me too? Make me tall and I like red color."

(Red ballpoint pen on drawing paper)

A Self Portrait

A self portrait using an old green ballpoint pen on a drawing paper...