My First Egg at Aviary.com

Thanks to techcrunch.com for the article which led to me to aviary.com.

Here's my first work using Peacock. It's called Blue Orbs.

Animation - The Not So Tradional Way

On our Materials & Techniques class we were asked to draw a character and animate them. All handrawn and 70 frames in total.

Here's my work after being colored in Photoshop.

And here's the draft Flash animation with Beyonce's Single Ladies on BG Music.

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Digital COMICS Tutorials

0. Initial steps. This penciller is one of my favorites. The very first step is open the image, set this to RGB mode (I usually work in RGB/CMYK mode) changing the "Background" into a layer n' set it to "multiply" mode. We can call this one "lineart".

1. Flats Here we began to color... I've created a new layer under the "lineart" called "color". This one is a normal layer mode, and we need to establish the colors for all the image using only flat colors at this time.

2.Alpha Channel With all the flat colors done, I'm going to select all the image (ctrl+A) copy (ctrl+C) and paste it (ctrl+V) into a new Alpha layer... We need it for select every color area in the future.

3. Airbrush Now, using the brush tool with a soft brush in screen mode I paint some parts of the image, setting the "light source" for Batman. I use the magic wand tool for select the different areas in the "Alpha channel" like active areas to paint over. You need to paint-over using the same color of the part to paint. It may looks like this:

4.Cuts Now, the next step is where the detailed work is. Using the lasso tool we do selections ("cuts"), and paint this areas using a gradient (using the base color like initial color and finishing in transparent). The gradient tool should be in "screen" mode and 35% of opacity. We do the selection, fills with gradient and make the selection again (more small) and fills again. I usually try 2 or 3 times for every area.

You can change this values for every tool... It depends of you! Experiment, and use the tool and values you feel more comfortably.

5. Secondary Light source and Adjustment When all the Batman are fully colored, a secondary light source helps to create more realistic effect in the image. I've choose a pale yellow tone, and using a soft brush (in screen mode) I add some light spots here and there.

Its almost finished... But I wanna do some adjustments for the colors:

6. Final Image

Busy Doing Oil Painting

This week is a busy week for us students of advertising and we even got a new classmate with just a mouthful of sales talk.. So we welcome Noni to the group..

My Oil Painting Workspace..

I use Reeves Oil Paint set and generic brushes only. Easy does it.. I have the messiest palette lol..

Darwin's Tattoo

If there's no paper to draw on to.. Darwin's hand and arm would do.. lol

Self Portrait Using Pen

It isn't a biggie though.. it's my first time to draw my face using pen and ink.. My sis told me it's still me because of the mole on the chin.. sob**

Shapes & Lines

Last Saturday.. Our discussion in Visual Perception were more of a contemporary approach. We were shown artworks of different contemporary artists. They were bizarre and simply admirable.



As students, we were to do them also. So here's mine. The title is "Huli Ka" or "Got Ya". It's a chameleon spotted even with its capability to mimic colors got spotted.

Colours of Life

It was a gloomy and rainy Sunday afternoon when we went to SM Mall of Asia for my partner's check up. I insisted on getting there coz he's having this up and down temperature which is driving me nutts! As we passed by the second floor, just a fwe steps from my favorite stores - there it was an exhibit of Filipino spirits. It's a collection of colorful creations by some of today's known artists. Have a look!

Pen & Ink

We started today with Pen and Ink with the usual Values Scale. On a 1/8 Illustration Board, 3 values scale from dark to light using cross hatch & pointillism. I was the one who submitted my plate first so that I could do my Comics Cover. Here's my study/subject which is almost finished. It's one of my favorite genre of drawing - girl with big boobs / Marvel type of drawing. lol

Oil Painting Again...

Been doing oil painting over the past few weeks and still I'm not finished with it! Man it's fun but I have not much time to do it.. sob**

Even my classmates get bored with it and still haven't finished their works. We're to submit it this Friday.

4 Sided Persona

Isn't it COOL? Mulitple images in different aspects and color.

Takatak

I know it by what it is.. but I don't know it's called "Takatak". My Classmate Kyo asked me to help him with shots for his painting for our Shell Art competition entry. Have a look at these images.. See anything familiar?

Sneakers Blood

Imagination + Irony = Interesting Stuff.. Here's Charles' sneakers gone gore!

The Bird

During our Art History class we made this drawing - The Bird. It's a collaboration of Darwin, Kyo and me. See how we came up from a stupid doodle..