What Rainy Days Can Do To You

Woohoo! Finally a new post. So sorry for the lack of updates, I'm out-of-town and it's been a crazy week. I'm actually in Manila right now and it's been raining like crazy since I got here. ( Read: two typhoons in one week!) The easiest thing to do is to cuddle up in bed with warm cocoa and a good book, which I did.  

Anyway, thanks to the weather I've had reason to pull out my mini sketchbook, thought I'd share some of my drawings with you guys. So glad I finally found time to bust out my Staedtlers again. Forgive me if my drawing skills are a little rusty. It's been a while. 

I'll be back to regular posting soon. Thanks for all the lovely comments and for following! Will be checking your beautiful blogs after this, have tons of catching up to do. :) Cheers!

Would You Get a Tattoo?

For the past few days I've been seriously thinking about getting another tattoo. Just a small one on my arm like this photo I found on Tumblr.

Cute, right? (I love her rings too!)

Anyway, I know a lot of people hate them or simply think they look "dirty" but personally I like tattoos. Maybe it's the artist in me that's making me feel this way. Here are some of my current tatts:

First 

Got this second tatt years back. No, it's not a shrimp! haha. It's a fish, I'm a Piscean. lol The design was inspired by Brandon Boyd's tattoo obviously, but I designed this myself. Then the artist, Ian, tweaked it and made it tatooable. 

Second

Sorry this one's blurry. I used a bad camera then. Got this tattoo on a whim but I was already thinking of getting a cross design since before. I was annoyed and pissed off at that time so before heading home I dropped by the tattoo shop and got this. I wouldn't encourage you to get a tattoo when you're upset though.

Third

This last one I got for my birthday last year.

Fourth

I love how when I look at my tattoos I can always remember the particular day or emotion I felt at that stage in my life. It's weird how they make certain memories seem so vivid. 

What are your thoughts on tattoos,  do you think they're too tacky? Would you get one? Would love to know. Cheers!

sleepyhead

This will be a quick post. I am minutes away from plopping my head onto my warm and nice pillow. Even though it's still early, my body feels dead tired. Anyway, here's a quick doodle I made when I attended an art convention. This is inspired by another artist (whose name I forgot, sorry) he created lovely monster drawings in sticky notes. I really like his work and since I only had a sticky note on hand at the time, I decided to give it a quick go. Not sure if this is something I like, but  I might draw from the idea later on.

This was one of the first doodles I made at the art convention. It was only because the initial speakers were kind of boring.

I'm Back!!

It's been awhile since I've posted anything. But now I'm back from hiatus and trying to post several sketches and doodles I've done so far. I'm still trying to finish my Sketchbook Project. Plus, I'm still busy creating shoes. Also attended an art convention awhile back so might post some of that here.

This was a drawing I made of my friend. She's also an artist and currently taking up architecture. =)

Will be posting a lot more of these small drawings. I got inspired from artist cards. Unfortunately, not that many artists are into them from where I'm from. Oh well. By the way, this was done using Steadtler Triplus Fineliners.(Yes, I finally have them!!) I love them a lot! Perfect for moleskines. 

because I still don't have my staedtlers...

Here's the last batch of illustrations I made for my friend. These are still done using four color pens. Will be uploading new trading card inspired drawings in the next couple of days, well, as soon as I get my fineliners that is.

Again, these are two separate pieces. Badly wish I hadn't scanned them at once. The colors came a bit too washed out in the scanning process too. Oh well. 

More illustrations...

Posting some more of the illustration work I did for my friend. The colors look washed out because of the scanning so pardon me for that. And I actually drew these on separate pages but the lady scanned them onto one page so they are going whichever way *sigh.* Anyway, all these illustrations were made with a 4 color pen. Enjoy!

Looking Forward

Hey, it's been a while since I've posted anything on this blog. Putting up drawings that I've done for my friend's story. I'm still waiting for my Sketchbook Project to arrive in the mail. It's been three weeks and no word yet, I wonder if it'll ever come. I'm still crossing fingers. Attending an upcoming International Art Convention in the next month. Looking forward to learning a lot of new things. Hopefully get more inspired and meeting old friends.

Will be posting the illustrations I made for my friend in the next couple of days and maybe a couple more pages from my sketchbook. See, I've been a busy bee all along!

This really won't make sense unless you have an absolutely naughty mind or you've read my friend's story. =)

another four color pen creation

Although this picture is far from done, I wanted to show you what it looks like in the process. (Okay, so I simply don't have any finished drawing to post today.) I have several sketches on paper as well as quite a few still bobbing and floating inside my head. (Jo, I'm still coming up with some rough sketches for your story, so hang tight. =)

Anyway, for this drawing, I used my Dong-A 4 color pen again. I'm starting to just love the convenience of having four colors in one pen right in my hand whenever I need it. I got myself two other similar pens today. Although the other two were generic (it has Spongebob and Tigger as a design!) I think they work quite well.

I'll make sure to post the finished version of this once it's done.

The picture kind of makes it look weird. It looks much nicer in my sketchbook. =(