Uhm...I drew myself. Lol.

I showed my thesis content evaluator my website for my finals and she looked at the 'About' page. She said she wanted my picture to be illustrated instead and I actually liked her suggestion. It goes well more with the treatment of the website but I kinda felt awkward about the thought of "illustrating myself". 

But anyways, for the love of graduating art I might as well do it. I mean my fave artist did A LOT of self-portraits (note: some images are NSFW lol). He took self-portraiture to the next level that seemed like the "selfie" master of his time lol (but that's just for me tho). Anyways, that's me...from one of the pictures I posted here too (guess which one). I dunno if it looks like me but oh well I tried. :P

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!

Awards

Ooohh, our exhibit is nominated for the Best Exhibit category in MMA Awards (Multimedia Awards). I wasn't a fan of the first Awards but since we're nominated...I might as well go. Hahaha.

In the meantime, here's something for a morning soundtrack while dressing up:

Hollywood by RAC

SHOOTIN' EVERYWHERE

 I've been pretty busy because of finals week and so far, this has been THE WORST FINALS WEEK I'VE HAD. Proj sucked the life out of me and doing all my other works are just soo...blegh. The best thing this term is my Black and White Photography class.

We were running out of time for Photog class so my prof told us we could use his studio for free. Luckily for me, his studio was very near my house. Here's what the place looks like:

My prof's DIY Lighting. He loves to do DIYs I dunno why :))

Check out his old school camera! He's a fan of film cameras and his place has loads of camera porn. Totes amaze. Oh, and yes, that camera still works and takes amazing photos.

My partner in crime, Lee..oh yeahhh.

Lee borrowed Sir Jay's camera. It was actually fun to use. I got to use it to take photos of Lee. He wanted me to shoot him using that camera so I obliged. 

AND FINALLY, AFTER ALL THIS TIME OF DREAMING OF A TLR, I actually got to hold AND use one! It's a dream. Totally ignited my search for MY very own TLR. I hope I get one soon...maybe Imma ask one for my birthday or when I go to Hong Kong. :D

This is also one of my prof's cameras. It looks like a 35mm camera but it's actually a 120. The lens pops up to reveal the "screen" just like a TLR. Pretty cool, huh?

Lee gettin' ready for his shoot.

My prof LOVES cats and he's got like 4 or 5 of them there.

Down here you'll see cat porn and her name is Milkshake. Milkshake does bring all the boys (and girls) to her yard because she's just fuckin' gorgeous...check her out:

She was totally modelling and my friend just went apeshit crazy on the camera sooo...yeah. You can't touch Milkshake tho because prof said she's a bitch. Lol, ironic but yeah, she scratches and for a moment there I thought she was giving me the finger/paw :))) Nonetheless, she's totes adorbs. 

AND THAT'S US RIGHT THERE!

Postin' the pictures of the results from the film shoots next. :D

Yay!

Finally, I'm... "blogging" again hehehe. Pero no, for sure ngayon lang yan because of the long weekend and since I have some time to share my shit with you guys (whoever you may be)...Here's the low-down on what I've been doing lately.

THESIS!

My life revolves around my thesis and lemme show you what my study room looks like...

This is the sliding door and I posted some background stuff and character studies on it.

This is the other table that's filled with my stuff on it. You can see that my peg is Sin City and there's the book over there. I borrowed it from the Library.

And this is what it looks like zoomed out. Oh, don't mind the big jar of salsa. Pretend it's not there.

OKAY, I LIKE TO EAT WHEN I'M STRESSED. THERE. I SAID IT. 

HAHAHA. KAY. 

Thesis is over and I passed so yaaayyy for me! But there's still MPROJ2, that's like thesis part 3 and it's the marketing part of my thesis. So there's MSCIETY (the researching part), MPROJ1 (the actual project) and then MPROJ2 (which is the marketing of the thesis). And that's the life of a senior in SDA. 

Fete de la Musique passed as well and that day was pretty crazy. I went to the Cynthia Alexander Farewell thingamajig but did not get to see her perform because well, it took her HOURS to get on the freakin stage. When I left, it was about 11PM and no one has seen her yet at that time! Rumors were going around that she was still being interviewed and DAMN, that interviewer dude made sure to TAKE HIS TIME.

All is cool though because I got to hang out with my friend, Kumiko. She's really nice and I felt really bad for leaving without seeing Cynthia Alexander because I know she wanted me to see how awesome she was. So instead of seeing her live, before I left I decided to buy her album which had some pretty cool songs btw. I should post some soon.

After the Cynthia Alexander Farewell thing, I told my driver to get me to B-side which was on the other side of the planet from the CA gig and I made it just in time... TO SEE WILABALIW...again. Ugh, really tho. I get why they're so iconic and all but they're just not my thing.

I decided to just eat and roam around with my friends. Down here's a dude wearing a cool Trainspotting tee. 

Here's a dude totally rockin' to Wilabaliw.

And some random art stuff on the walls of The Collective.

Oh, and this is my first time to taste this chocolate! 

Kumiko gave me these chocolate bars and they're insanley good and what's cooler is that they are locally made, oh yeaahhhh! 

Check 'em out here. Totes amaze :))) 

My friend and I couldn't finish the drink we ordered so we told Joey to finish them all. Spot Joey roamin' around drunk. :))) 

Hi Joey, love you~~ :))


PS. I went to the Ang Nagwawala concert for the Ang Nawawala film and it was helluva fun! I used my film camera tho so I dunno what pictures I got, hopefully meron naman so I can share it soon but for nao, Fete na lang muna haha. If you wanna check out my film stuff, check my tumblr! :D

PPS. I'm also brewing something new for you guys. Clue: leather and canvas. Pero para mas madali, you can check what's brewin' over here. 

HELLO HELLO

Via Stop It Right Now

Sooo, I love her outfit especially the pregnant part. I don't think it would be this cool if the baby bump was missing. MAKES ME WANT TO GET PREGNANT LOOK FOR A JUMPER. 

In other news, my life is a total mess because Thesis has taken over my life. Everything I do is thesis related and I'm dying. If it's not thesis-related then it's school related. Either way, I'm still dying. Although, while I am on thesis mode, I've been "brewing" something special for you guys/people of Manila/reader/consumer/whateveryouwannacallyourself...I have been "designing" some cool backpacks, YAAAYY! 

The samples are already done and a few edits have been made and then it's showtimeee.

I hope you guys will like it and I'll post some photos soon. For now, back to Thesis, he is waiting for me!

PS. I'll post some of my sample photos soon! :D

Normal Day in the LRT...

Lol, funny if I see someone wear this in the LRT. Or what if I see Darth Vader in the grocery store?

I knoooow, Chad Vader is so old but I am bored in my Biz class. :|

Bike Cycle

Bike Cycle

This is a poster I made for a project for my NATSCA class. It's supposed to be a poster for a Bike-for-a-day event to help lessen carbon dioxide in our environment and to promote cycling in our daily lives. The target market are those who have bicycles already but are only using them for leisure time. The goal is to encourage them to use their bikes for their daily activities to lessen carbon footprints and to save the environment. These posters are to be placed in bike shops and restaurants and even schools.

Lost.

I really have no clue where to begin. It seems like after the finals of last term, I am lost. I don't know where I've last stopped ("blog-wise"...sorry di ko type ang term na "blogger" so I really have to put " " ) and I don't know what photos to put up next. Everything's bizarre-o right now. I know, such a sad title for a New Year! (and apparently, according to the Mayan calendar, could be our last but we'll never know that until it arrives soo...yeah.) I shall try and put a recap on the things that have happened in the last few months last year but I warn you, they may/may not be in order any more.

Let's see let's see, what do I have here?

Don't mind the man with the huge armzz, the man in blue is my focus in this picture :)) Juma-Jak and Jil kasi ako.

I like yo backpack!

Cutie artist in da houuseee! =)) Creepy stalker pic. I apologize.

Blackout in UM

Excuse me sir, but yo backpack is pretty.

This girl was pretty serious in studying. Just like what T. Swift said, beauty is sincerity.

I miss this table.

The way to Betty.

Old school typography for the win.

Stop.

HOSHIT, BRICKS!!! I looooveee bricks!

I apologize in advance for the blurry photos, I blame my sweaty palms and crappy old camera.

Our photo for the VIDPRD2 Finals.

So I guess that's it for today. Part 2 tomorrow? Maybeeeeee. We'll see, we'll see. :D