Bahay Kubo Painting

I got inspired to paint a Bahay Kubo for 20 minutes...

Woman Painting

Just another 20 minute warm-up for today...

Pancake Painting

Not sure what I did here.  This is just something I did for 10 minutes to warm up my hands before jumping to my work...

Modern Dining

It felt like my painting skills is downgrading again.  Main reason is because of my busy schedule.  The disadvantage of accepting too many freelancing jobs is that I tend to become stagnant when it comes to my skill development.  On the other hand, if I do spend more and more time practicing I get to earn less.  It is quite a challenge for me to maintain a well-balanced scheduling.

When I do freelance.  Most of the time, I'm only thinking of finishing the job because most clients put pressure on the turnaround...  This is okay with me and this is a great opportunity to boost my earnings...:)  But sometimes, I just feel the need to practice or perhaps I just missed doing an illustration for myself.

Now I decided to spend a little "painting for myself" time again just to recall how it use to feel.  So to start, I have painted somewhat a modern dining for 20 minutes just for fun...:)

The Sloth and the Turtle

Just a couple of character designs before starting with my next project...

Scaredy Vampire

I just thought I might draw something for Halloween.  And I came up with this...

Little Girl in the Mirror

This is just something I did for a project.  Somehow it didn't push through so I am claiming this image for myself and just post it here in my blog...

Book Covers Set 3

Just a few book covers that I made a couple of weeks a ago...

Vampire Hunter Sketch

I made another 30 minute sketch for the day.  Not so sure what I came up with but I would like to call this guy Vampire Hunter...

Samuria Sketch

I made another 30 min sketch before a very busy day.  Hopefully I could keep these sketches up throughout the week...

Ninja Girl Sketch

It feels like my skills is developing backwards every time I neglect practicing from time to time.  I made this quick sketch to boost my momentum to at least consistently put something in this blog.  I had been keeping myself busy with other stuffs for several weeks now...

Book Covers Set 2

I haven't had the chance to create a few illustrations of my own.  What I do have is another set of book covers that I did just recently for a few books that I had completed...

Another Set of Character Sketches

Busy...busy...busy...as always...  I intentionally created these character sketches before my new project without being asked so as to keep some of my illustrations for myself...

New Simpsons

I have always wondered if I could create my own Simpsons Style Cartoons.  So I decided to create my own Simpsons Family just for fun...

Book Covers

As you've noticed I haven't been able to update this blog for quite some time.  I've been busy once again.  Taking on freelancing works is sometimes too unpredictable.  There were times when I get to relax and have some fun with my family and there were moments when I just have to concentrate on working continuously especially when I had over committed to a deadline.  I could summarize the experience as enjoyable but tedious...:)

Please allow me to share some book covers of a few stories that I had finished recently.  These will be out in the market soon...

Fixing a Bat

I did a little fixing on that sketch of Batman that I did a while back.  This made me realize that the best way to correct a wrongly drawn arm is to h--- it...:)

I added some colors as well and WALAH!!...  It's done...

Robin Williams

I had been watching late Mr. Williams movies since my childhood days.  We were still using those huge box-typed television.  I was one of his avid viewers and this sketch is dedicated to this great artist...

Batman Sketch

A 20 minute batman sketch for my morning warm-up.  I thought I messed up the pose here.  It just looked a little bit awkward but I decided to post it anyways since this is only a sketch...

Cartoon Character Sketch

Just a few 30 min character sketches for a new project...

 

Weight Lifter

I wanted to do something whimsical today...  Buy I think this one didn't make any sense at all...

Pencil Sketches 3

Another set for my morning routine.  Body and hand sketches.  The hands sketches courtesy of Andrew Loomis Books...

Flying Cowboy

Morning warm-up.  Here is a 40 minute made cowboy.  Nothing special just simple outlines with plain colors...

More Sketches

I need a little warming up...

Mr Sunflower

...And since I'm having so much fun, I made this sketch of a sunflower showing different emotions...

Random Human Anatomy Sketch Study

It's time for another warm-up on human anatomy.  Here are some random pose I've made recently...

The Warrior King

I consider the lions as my favorite animal because of their warrior spirit and their aggressive personality.

So I played around with this new character of a lion with some sort of blade with him.

Pencil Sketches 2

Just a few more sketches before a busy day...

Pencil Sketches

I found a cool pencil brush at google today and made a couple of sketches before jumping to work.

If you want to try this one try to search "pencil brush photoshop" at google.com and the first thing to appear would be "Andatonious Pencil Brush".  Download it and have fun!

Mr. and Mrs. Duck

It really motivates me to do better whenever I come up with something like this before a busy day...  This is a simple illustration of a duck couple inspired by "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" movie...

Face Doodle

A 10 minute face doodle...

Somehow it's a little harder to do pencil effects digitally.  So I might consider using a real pencil in the future...

Old Fashioned Guy with a Guitar

Just some guy with a guitar...

Freelance Projects

It's Labor Day!  I thought I might share some products of my hard labor with my freelancing... :)

Mask Man

It's already the last day of the month.  Didn't do much with my blog so I decided to find some cool images in google that I could somehow use as reference for a painting. 

I didn't totally copy it because I always find it more interesting to create my own version...:)

This one took me 2 hours at least and I almost fell to sleep because of the boring process of painting.  Somehow, I'm still satisfied with the final output and I hope you like it!