Chibify-ing!

From all the crazy work fun I was commissioned by an ex-cowoker to draw a portrait of him. Supposedly going to look like how it will fit in Draw Some but then situation changed and I was allowed all the colors that I want! So here it is!


Chibified version of Decktonic.

Agimat's Flip Rider Fan Art Contest!

Last month I've entered a fan art contest for Agimat's Flip Riders. It is an iOS game where you get to chose different riders with different stats for you to have the ultimate flipping fun! Okay, enough of the summary.

But yes, after submission and one week of fan votes, I have taken home the prize! =D

I want to specially thanks all my friends that have spread the word on this contest and for all those that have voted. Also to those that have supported the other artists' work. As artists, we really enjoy it when there are someone out there that appreciate our works, on behalf of them, we all share the thanks to make this a good sport for us all =)

Thank you Agimat for holding this for where I have met new friends =)

NYCC 2011 aka NYAF 2011

So the time have finally come! It is the biggest event on this side of the coast for all comic lovers! It is the New York Comic Con 2011!!!! As most people have known NYCC have merged the New York Anime Fest into this one gigantic 4 days event! Yes. 4 Day!

I am proud to announce that this year, yours truly, was able to get a table at the Anime Artist Alley on the 4th Level! This year aside from the regular prints I brought back out the shot glasses (by special request from Valerie Freire) etched with the runes from The Mortal Instruments (which is also designed by Valerie). Also special thanks and shout out to Ground Up Studios for putting together a great anthology about our GU mascots, Nu & Star! For completing this comic anthology I put together a special digital CD just for NYCC. Of course this is a sneak in of a sales pitch, but hey, it's not just for promoting, I see it as really good news to be spread. ;)

Anyway, I hope anyone that is going to NYCC can stop by, check out my other works that is not on my DA account and maybe give me some feedback or to simply say hi =D

I am at table #C25 with fellow creative, Valerie Freire, one thing for sure we love making new friends! =D =D =D

shadow people..

...Or just so say the the title. I got some new grey markers today and thought I'll have some fun. These poses are soon to be part of my Zodiacs collection revamp!

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Manga Studio Debut 4

Oh my it have already been 2 months since I first installed Manga Studio Debut 4. A friend of mine gave me this program as a present because he believed that I would put it to good use. Well to say first, I greatly appreciated the gift and also his support in my works. Thanks Rhapsody!

So what to say about this program? One thing to make clear, I've never worked with any version of Manga Studio before so I have nothing to compare with except from what I usually do in Photoshop.

I mainly work on illustrations and craft works but have been wanting to work on a comic. Going back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator prove to be a bit annoying and also slowing down the system a lot. As much as the version I got is the Debut and not the EX I am still getting a good amount of features.

I have a tendency to work in the highest possible resolution that my MacBook can take before slowing down. For something that I want as a large print I work with 11" x 14" and I set it in 1200 dpi. Least to say Manga studio manages my illustration pages really well and at a faster performance because it takes lesser RAM to run than Photoshop. Just simply for cleaning and inking my sketches it run exceptionally smooth. My whole system was running without any lags or even hints of exhaustion. On the other hand, when I try to clean in Photoshop I have a fear that it will suddenly just crash and lose my work. Fortunately that haven't happened with MSD4.

This program have given me better line work (digitally) than in Illustrator because it easier to control as if you are actually inking on paper! Clean up is just as easy and the precision is great with erasing line (goodbye white-out!) One of the most interesting thing, and I mean interesting that I have not seen until CS5 is the rotation of the canvas. Maybe it was featured in CS4 but I sort of jumped from 3 to 5 but that is another story. I know, it is something that is not shocking but definitely shocking to me because I always have to turn my arm an odd way so just so I can get my stroke correctly.

Okay I'm done raving about MS for now. Someday I might just pick up the EX version when I get more into my comic.

Thanks for reading. =)