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

MNT Seal

Woooo! Guys, I have my own seal naaa~~ I feel like one of those Empresses in Chinese/Korean movies lol. Jk. Anyways,  super lucky to have found this little store in Insadong. Insadong is where you can see "the focal point of Korean traditional culture and crafts." Everything being sold in Insadong is Korean and possibly hand-crafted by the sellers themselves.

 

Wee, here's my illustration without the stamppp~~

And there it issss. I got them to carve my initials MNT because I thought it could be similar to the one I made for my business card logo. Plus, it feels more serious/professional (I think lol). The sales lady who was super nice asked if I wanted it in English or Korean and I thought about that and thought I'd go with English since I'd be using the stamp back home. The price was 30,000 won (around 1170 pesos) which I thought was pricey but then I've always wanted to have a legit one so I YOLO'd it all the way.

Zooming in on the stamp :D 

The stamp is made of marble (i think, dunnoo...it feels like it tho) and the guy carved it by hand. We had to wait for about 45 minutes because the store had a lot of orders and when me and my brother got back it was already ready for us to take home :D

Totally cool and a good remembrance from Korea that I'd cherish forever. Yaayy!

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!

Keep Drawing.

keep drawing from studio shelter on Vimeo.

Pretty cool and quite inspiring.

Drawing Crangi.

Everyone, I'd like you to meet Philip Crangi. He's "an award-winning designer", in jewelry that is. Don't be fooled and don't be too judgemental, his jewelry line, MAAAYYYJJJOORRR BADASS!!!

Ugh, totally gwapooo..but he's gay sooo, yeah :|

I decided to draw him for my homework in DESKPUB(Desktop Publication) for an ad for my "pretend" design studio which I named RIPPED TEE :> :> :> I was tasked to make a folder and calling card which I love! I will post it soon so I can share it with you guys. :)

My idea for the ad was combining Photoshop brushes with my hand-drawn illustration of Philip Crangi and make it as an ad. Here shows the progress of my drawing. I may/may not post the final ad because I'm kind of lazy to post THAT. :)))))

Anyhoo, here it is :

Added some "highlights"

Et voila! Le finished produkt! :))

Philip Crangi is not just known for his jewelry line, he's also known for his sense of style and he's one of Tommy Ton's best dressed men in GQ. I suggest you guys check him out because he's one of the men to watch out for and get tips and tricks on how to dress nicely (and cool-y) but still be comfortable and look "manly".

Here's Philip Crangi's 10 Essentials in GQ

and

Here's The Crangi Family Project where he shows his jewelry line that he shares with his sister

and

Here's Giles&Brother , the store...

I leave you with a video of Philip Crangi and his studio:



Photos I got from The Dandy Project's site.
Ps. My drawing looks more "tougher" than Crangi himself, looks like he's an angry god from the Greek mythology who can smite me with his mighty lightning rod or something. =))

PPS. If you are highly doubtful about guys/men wearing jewelries and looking gay, here is my rebuttal:



Totally GQ approved! Whatever GQ says, GOES!