BOY Stripes.

Hellooo, I'm back! And I'm back as a freeeee maannn. Oh yeah. Free man coz I just finished my thesis and was able to defend it last Wednesday. Now I can post all of the pending shiz I need to postttt. So here's the first one after the hiatus... 

What does this button do?!

My BOY striped sleeves and black and white biker cap.

watwatwatwat?!

Stripes on stripes? Okaaayy.

When we got to Korea, it was SALE season which was super lucky for us/me!

I got to check out racks that contained super affordable clothes. This shirt was in the 5900won rack and I was like...NO SHIT. Guys, google convert that shit to PHP and you'll be surprised at the price result!

The store that I went to was pretty cool as well. I was about to walk past the store because it looked sketchy plus the store was "underground". But you know, when you see the rack labeled 5900won, you can't say no to that. There were a lot more cooler clothes to buy but I decided to save my money for Hongdae. It was a good plan.
 

The cap was in a department store but nonetheless was still pretty affordable since those types of caps can't be found in Manila. That's around 15000won (I can't remember the exact price, lol) But yeah...these two are like 800 pesos only. YAYYY TO AFFORDABLE CLOTHESSS. Wooooo!

Inking Finished!

Inking is finally finished for my thesis, yyaaayyyyy!!!!

 Only God knows how many hours I spent working on this project. With 70+ pages and god knows how many panels (there's one page where I made 15 panels fit and I don't know why I did that, my goodness hahahah) I am FINALLY FINISHED. All I need to do now is fix my website and post the comics there and add animation and I am done! WOOOOOO!!!!

I'm so happy I finally finished inking them I just had to take a picture with them on mah flooorrrr. I know what you guys are thinking, why did she do it traditionally and not just use photoshop? Well, I'm a masochist romantic and prefer to do it the traditional way. Haha. I dunno why but whenever I do something in photoshop (illustration-wise) I can't seem to appreciate it. I always end up scrapping it or ctrl+z-ing the project and at that rate I will never finish on time. I'm also more of a traditional artist anyways, note the films I use and the old school cameras and the speedball pens and inks I use, everything's just old school for me.

And that's just the way my boat floats!

Graciela Iturbide

Inspiring video and black and white photography.

Developing Time.

YEAAAHHHH!!! My chemicals to develop and process my own black and white photos at home have arrived. I can't wait to use them~~

duguduguduguduuuuggg~

Tenennnn! Bought them from Sir Jackson Sy somewhere in the internet. Actually, my prof recommended this. We used this in school, far cheaper and more reusable than the other branded developers and fixers out there. It's my first time doing it ALONE and AT HOME so I'm still nervous (and cautious) about the steps. Hope I don't screw it up. I'll develop my photos once I feel 100% better but for now, I'll work on my thesis first.
#priorities #what

ps. my table is forever a mess. sighhhh. forever inking. sighhhh.

Processed Films for Finals

Here are some of the results from my shoot with Lee. Super lucky that Adi tagged along :D

Adi Amor

Louise Egea

Lee Caces

Thanks guys for being awesome models for my project!
To check out more of the results, check out my Tumblr right over here.

After Lee.

After seeing the shoot I had with Lee, my friends wanted to join in so I took their photos.

KIND OF reminds me of Abbey Road, maybe coz they're walking in the same direction? :))

This is Kakoy, we tease him a lot coz he looks like a girl....and I look more of a guy than he is. He's not cool with it as you can see from the photo below...

But he doesn't really get THAT mad, ya know what I mean? :))

Then we left.

Lee 2.

My friend Lee got a cool new hair cut. I wanted to take a photo of it so we agreed to have a shoot yesterday. It was quite an impromptu shoot as we used the lights my friend borrowed for his Concept Photo shoot. The shoot was held in the Green Room and color wasn't really working. Luckily, I tried on using black and white and it was perfect with one lighting only. It's really sublime.

I left my memory card back at home so I used my friend Jp's Nikon. It was the first time for me to use a Nikon in a shoot so I was still kind of confused and some shots were blurry. Though some of them were blurry, I still loved them anyways.

My friends said the shoot reminded them of the Iron music video I recently posted and it actually does kind of remind me of it, check it here.

Thanks to JP for the lights and camera and thanks to Lee for being patient with me at the shoot! :D