[x] Bluetooth Fairy

Thanks to Neil, he referred me to a client who needed a reconstruction of their company's 'mascot.' The company is a bluetooth technology retailer called "Bluetooth Fairy". Their current fairy mascot was somewhat... lacking... in appeal and Neil and I looked her over and thought she could be vamped up considerably to be more eye-catching, appealing, and definitely market-friendly.

original

first-pass revision

updated revision - close to finish
just have to tweek some details that the client isn't a hundred percent on.
She needs to be "sexier"...

Essentially, the client wanted me to keep the same essence of the illustration... the pose, the wings, the color palette, etc. I did alter the figure, though, specifically the body posture and the face. The original illustration's pose wasn't very... structured... and felt like the spine was either broken or not there entirely. As for the face, it just wasn't striking me as something that made me want to stop and look at their product.

Anywhoo... that's where the fairy is so far. I have some other detailing to work out. Should be done before week's end.

the revisions continue...

[x] Bok Choy Apparel

www.bokchoyapparel.com
[best viewed in anything EXCEPT Internet Explorer]

It's been a long time since my last blog... but I'm back and I've got a bloggie entry for ya.

Over the past couple of months, a group of friends have been working tirelessly almost every night to get a new apparel website online. "Bok Choy Apparel" BokChoyApparel was "created as an outlet for the growing 'Asian Artist' as well as providing support for various non-profit groups, BCA was from the beginning about what we care most about: our community.

We envisioned doing this by making people look good. Everybody loves a t-shirt and they love it even more when the shirt fits both body and personality. To this end we print only on 100% cotton American Apparel shirts, for the softest feel possible. We are also constantly on the look out for artists whose work appeals both aesthetically and socially to us and our causes. Artists are passionate about their work, community organizers are passionate about their causes; we are passionate about providing a medium to unite these forces, and make some great clothes along the way!" [About BCA]

As a member of their creative team, I submitted a few designs that could be turned into screen-tee's - provided that the designs generate a decent amount of votes. [Please vote - teehee]

The way that BCA is set up, the designs are put online and then they are voted on by the community (i.e. YOU) to be turned into actual shirts - very similar to how Threadless.com and Designbyhumans.com operate. So... um... wanna vote for my designs? Pretty please? :-D Just enter your email under the design that you like [P.S. You won't be spammed. All you'll ever receive is a simple notification that the shirt you voted for went into production and is now available for purchase.Just in case you guys were wondering.]

A very illustrative take on the Filipino Sun
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Because girl-on-girl is hot... and hopefully my design for lesbian love makes it hotter.
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Gay and proud...
[stop staring at the model! it's the shirt I'm trying to showcase here! Sheesh!]
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Heterosexuality's gotta look cool too. :-)
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Hope you like these, you guys. If you don't please feel free to leave comments with constructive criticism. :-)

P.S. To my fellow Shrunkenhead... find the skull of the Shrunkenheadman. :-)

[x] EmoBot

8x10 - watercolor & acrylic

What if TinMan wanted to return his heart to the Wizard...
...to exchange it for a thermonuclear device? :-P

I dunno what prompted me to paint such an emo piece. Anywhoo... introducing my "Emo Bot" :-P

[x] So You Think You Can Dance...

11x17 - acrylic
finished unfinished-painting of the day

Decided to paint this one with a really painterly unfinished feel - partly because I didn't feel like fleshing it out all the way and partly because I didn't want to spend too long on what should have been just a quick painting sketch. Anywhoo... on to the next painting. Now, if only I had an idea of what to paint...

[x] Mabuhay

Igorot man
11x17 - watercolor/acrylic


painting of the day...

[x] Paint Drums

Having to sit out of practice for at least a month is extremely frustrating. I could potentially be removed from the performance roster for the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown coming up in April. Extremely bummed...

Meanwhile, physical therapy is painful, but that was to be expected. It has been recommended by my doctor that I take vicodin twenty minutes prior to starting the PT sessions. Oy vey... And it is going a little slower than I had anticipated. I have a series of exercises I have to do at home to strengthen the hamstring and restore mobility and range of motion to the knee area. I wonder how fast I can speed up the recovery... Hmm...

It's quite discouraging having to sit on the side like an observer while my peer group, not only continues to add new students, but also gets to learn the new routines for the festival. GRRR...

In my frustration, I decided to paint. It's been far too long since I've painted with traditional paints, so I pulled out my acrylics and watercolors (dusted them off accordingly) and decided to paint my frustrations out. This is what came out. I know I've done a speed-sketch of an odaiko drummer before, but I wanted to see if I could flesh one out more realistically while still having it keep a certain artistic flare. And, of course, because this is a more detailed painting in terms of figure, lighting, and color tones, I had to gather the accurate reference. This is the end result...

Oyasuminasai...

[x] Animated Caffeinated Awesomeness

Dedicated to my peers, friends, brothers & sisters, bleeders & sweat-ers, fighters and pioneers of the Animation/Illustration and Entertainment Design industry...

[x] Follow the White Rabbit...

down the rabbit hole...

:-)

[x] Stop! Mucha Time!

I decided do a digital painting of the sketch that I scribbled in my sketchbook yesterday and I wanted to do it with an Alfons Mucha feel. Mucha always chose women for his subject matter so I painted a male version of the concept of Time. Compositionally, it's inspired by Mucha, but my roommate says the painting itself has an Alex Ross feel. :-) Totally not a bad thing, in my opinion. HAHA.

Anywhoo... Hi. :-)

[x] Sketchbook Musings & Photoshop-ness...

work in progress

In addition to the SF matte painting I'm working on, I dug up an old illustration that I did as a reinvention of the Alice in Wonderland story that I did when I was at school at the Laguna College of Art & Design. I came across it as I was cleaning out some old image folders I had on my computer and decided to re-paint it partly because of reading the books The Looking Glass Wars but mostly because I was inspired by some of the concept art for it by Chris Applehans.

Below are a couple sketches I did during one of my regular coffee-shop adventures with my homie and roommate, Derek Brand:

Hail, Caesar!

A lot of time when I'm sketching, I do a lot of "stream of thought" drawing where I doodle with no particular idea of what I'm drawing or what it's going to end up being. For this sketch, I dunno what I was thinking about, but it started off as a straight-on sketch of a Roman woman... but then my pen started drawing lines on her face and it turned into a Roman woman...assimilated by the Borg. HA!

Father Time...when he was in his late 20's...