sketch oven

testing testing

2012-01-21T13:28:00.000-08:00

a quick scene from my thesis film :) still trying out a few looks!

happy holidays

2011-12-25T05:40:00.000-08:00

hope everyone's Christmas has been jolly and full of family togetherness! :)

flamingo

2011-12-09T17:07:00.000-08:00

i have a friend who reminds me of a bird. the tall pink kind, with the really big beak. yes.

i think the animal relation first crossed my mind when one english class, he asked about being english partners-- and his nose just slooooowly eclipsed my view of the world. he's also tall. and pink, i guess.

birdie boy

2011-12-05T19:58:00.000-08:00

for fun

so happy together

2011-12-03T10:05:00.000-08:00

preliminary designssssuh

2011-11-25T13:27:00.000-08:00

some initial designs for the hobo, before i edited my story again. :)

the last image was a color test, i had loads of fun planning out for those scenes but i had to take them out when the story changed. :( SIGH.

EDIT i knew i forgot to upload one more thing! just a layout/color test.

flapper

2011-11-24T00:33:00.001-08:00

gritty

2011-10-23T19:06:00.000-07:00

film stuff yaaaaaaay!
still experimenting with an overall look and style :d

fuglies

2011-09-19T16:40:00.000-07:00

a project nooree and i started, but never finished.

summer dump

2011-09-09T21:18:00.001-07:00

some doodles i did over the summer on my freer days at Titmouse. im still finishing up a couple more drawings that i left hanging. :d

Buckle uuuuup - Group Film!

2011-07-29T09:16:00.000-07:00

Last school year, i had the opportunity to work with 10 very awesome and talented classmates and after 8 months of loving and hating each other, sleepless nights of story revisions and games of would-you-rather's, we shat out Knighty Knight-- now featured on OnAnimation.com and CartoonBrew.com

Much thanks to Abe, who promoted our film and lead us through the hate and love. :)

yaaaay!
so check these crazy people out!
Abe
Matt
Ian
Omar
Alanna
Titus
Sun
Phil
Karim
Kim

dreams n' doodles

2011-06-29T12:43:00.001-07:00

dad

2011-06-28T11:00:00.000-07:00

just stuff ive done for father's day and my dad's birthday. ive found that its really hard to find the right gift for my dad cuz he's really picky and prefers the things that i cant afford (i.e. the Beatles mono box set D:)

i thought

2011-06-28T10:53:00.001-07:00

comin atchaaaaa

2011-06-24T19:36:00.000-07:00

still trying out a few things.

also: hi to my new followers! thank you for watching my blog guys :)

streets

2011-06-23T18:42:00.000-07:00

getting a few ideas off the streets of LA.

Toesies

2011-06-08T22:49:00.000-07:00

appreciate what you meditate

2011-06-08T00:35:00.000-07:00

a drawing a day. got to get on that shet.

dang, a star

2011-06-07T18:22:00.001-07:00

classy asn

2011-05-13T15:17:00.001-07:00

been tweaking styles here and there. dont know what im going for.

hope summer's been good to everyone so far. :)

life drawingggggguh

2011-03-16T20:10:00.000-07:00

oh hey, 2 more months until the summer... iM SO EXCITED. :B

bada-

2011-02-06T23:11:00.000-08:00

a couple of noorees and more showgirls.

boom

2011-01-28T20:07:00.000-08:00

heres to 01.01.11

2011-01-01T02:45:00.000-08:00

this isnt really done but i couldnt finish it in time for the countdown. oh well, here's to the new year: more colors, more drawing and more filipino time! happy 2011 guys. :)

i like vancouver weather

2010-12-26T03:12:00.000-08:00

beats the weather in toronto.

group film stuff - munsters and draguns

2010-11-24T00:25:00.000-08:00

group film's taken another turn! D:

aaaaaminals

2010-11-17T07:41:00.000-08:00

hmmm, surprisingly the royal winter fair wasnt too smelly this year.

ian said something about stalking people as they paint at the fair...

jazz n liquor

2010-11-15T01:07:00.000-08:00

Chicago is my favorite background-noise movie. i loooove that era.

hipster chip

2010-11-11T20:09:00.001-08:00

someone told me that a friend of mine has a head that looks like a dorito chip...

also, i read somewhere that triangles are very hipster, because they're ironic. guess that works.

future film idea?

2010-11-09T22:09:00.000-08:00

group film stuff- monster concepts

2010-11-09T21:59:00.000-08:00

i dont usually draw hulking monsters, so these were a challenge for me. critiques are welcome :D

abandonment complex

2010-11-09T11:05:00.000-08:00

a few days ago, Keely and i were talking about how some movies gave us certain insecurities as kids...

group film stuff- character concepts

2010-11-06T13:10:00.000-07:00

scrapped concepts for the little girl :d

Bridesattack

2010-10-26T22:46:00.000-07:00

got carried away after the first doodle.. :d

p.s. SHADDAP ANDRE, i post. :(

jersey'd

2010-10-21T17:49:00.001-07:00

On the boardwalk

2010-10-19T23:42:00.001-07:00

i remember when Nooree and i biked down the boardwalk in MissionBeach, SanDiego last summer, we would see this really old guy roller skating back and forth on the boardwalk opposite us.
i guess he was carrying mini speakers with him because as he skated, Beethoven's 9th symphony surrounded him and he pretty much figure skated to it.
it was quite awesome.

anyhow he somewhat inspired this old sketch, drawn to the sketchjam theme "SunBurn"

story pitch cover

2010-10-18T01:08:00.000-07:00

...for the story pitch i made/gave for our 3rd year group film.
dont think ill post the rest of the pitch images, i wasnt too satisfied with the consistency in most of them. :d

oh and...... KIDDIES! <3

2010-10-17T23:31:00.001-07:00

also, i was getting frustrated in life drawing class today.
so i drew peoples.

run and tell that

2010-10-15T19:46:00.000-07:00

homeboy.

2010-10-08T17:16:00.000-07:00

word

2010-10-01T22:01:00.000-07:00

...........world lit is boring.

snickers

2010-09-30T22:57:00.000-07:00

yay orange tans! GTL, baby!

asian zombeh

2010-08-23T20:09:00.000-07:00

man, blogspot.com colors suck D: dont even know why i bother with the colors i choose.

good ol' wonderland

2010-08-21T12:54:00.000-07:00

didnt work at wonderland much this summer, commuting back and forth from oakville to vaughn was a pain in the arse. :d
i was looking forward for more practice tho, but i guess my patience couldnt hold to it. :(

some mom and her kid at the park. so classy.

speedpaint

2010-08-18T18:15:00.000-07:00

tried my hand at a marathon contest at Sketchoholic
the theme was SeaMonkey. :d
ugh gotta practice being fasterrrr D: i tend to panic too much under pressure. :(

one of those days

2010-08-13T15:36:00.000-07:00

layla

2010-08-12T21:14:00.000-07:00

i underestimated Dexter. good tv show series :d
i wasnt aiming for likeness, but personality i guess? trying out some new styles :d

if my mom was a snake charmer...

2010-08-11T17:53:00.000-07:00

that would be cool.

dedicated to my Lola Thel, who never fails to regale my brother and me with tales of how she's conquered the dozens of snakes back in the day, proving that she's not afraid of them. <3

lazy lazy

2010-08-09T21:11:00.000-07:00

Here's to the amazing Pascal Campion, who's stuff inspired me to pick up my tablet and give photoshop another go again. :)

Thanks to Eduardo Pasaoa

and my brother, Migs for the critique! <3

red book

2010-05-23T21:43:00.000-07:00

some fairly old schtuff...

anyone familiar?

sweet tooth

2010-05-10T22:45:00.000-07:00

rock aint no walk in the park, man

2010-04-10T00:10:00.000-07:00

last character assignment of the year: using an old character design, have your character approach an object he/she is not supposed to have, obtain it and be happy only to be caught by an onlooker and feel guilty after.

...this would be me if my brother ever gets a flying V.

chimo chimo

2010-02-19T21:07:00.000-08:00

a vday gift :)

cafesketchin'

2009-12-19T11:57:00.000-08:00

caricaturing new year's resolution: draw more, exaggerate more, and uh.... cafe more.

happy holidays everyone! :)

hairy monsters

2009-12-02T16:10:00.001-08:00

nooree and i have been *trying* to do a day-by-day sketch thing, with random themes, but so far... fail. the last sketch was uh... the 22nd? :p

insomnia

2009-10-28T11:07:00.000-07:00

skin practice. its been awhile.

faces in places

2009-10-20T22:34:00.000-07:00

i like orange and bluuuue

no more caricatures (YAY)

2009-09-05T07:57:00.000-07:00

last ones of the season. :D

demo

this guy was the easiest customer ive ever had to draw. he made my day, especially since i was having an artist's block that morning.

demo-bought

i feel like a screwed up an opportunity to really caricature here, but i guess it falls somewhere between "ok" and "somewhat likeness"

this girl wanted me to draw her entire body, as is. maybe she really reeeeeally liked that outfit she was wearing.

their 3rd sibling was a fail. :( hate when i do that.

these guys were pretty fun to draw, since they made everything from facial features to the theme of the drawing light and easy. :)

i should practice more for next season but... mnaaaaaaaaaaah. :)

moarrrrrrrr...

2009-08-09T14:26:00.000-07:00

more them c'ricatures

2009-08-04T21:49:00.000-07:00

soooo one more month of c'rcaturing fun, and i feel like i still could use a lot more practice. i think im getting the hang of line quality, and im not completely sucking at coloring anymore...

but im still chickening out of exaggerating the customer's features. i'd hate to hurt the feelings of some 10 year old kid if i stretch out his crazy awesome bucktooth... even if it is crazy awesome.

just some demos i did on a reeeeeally slow day...

first collab with nooree for a customer visiting from ireland.

my zillionth try and fail at drawing ol' monkey boobs.

wonderland's wannabe ad shot. woooooo

them faces

2009-07-13T10:04:00.001-07:00

im hoping to see improvement with my stuff each time i post.

..still gotta work on coloring/line quality/likeness/everythingelse. :p

c'ricaturin'

2009-07-10T21:48:00.001-07:00

...caricature of me by Jun Yu (he didnt get to finish coloring it :( )...

.. Nooree's revenge for this (hAHAHA thanks for the fly-eyes)...

..and one of the caricatures that i liked at the end of my second shift... the couple had this really cute younger sister who liked my caricature of her and made me feel alot better after making a bunch of crap-tastic drawings that day. :)

i'm finding that live caricaturing is really something else... theres time pressure, the worry of having the drawings look like the sitters, figuring out how to use the freaking color sticks (ahhhhhh hate them), hoping for a good reaction from the customer, then (my favorite) there's being conscious of having all these people watch you as you work. AGH.

but its fun. the people you meet, the stuff you get to draw.

and, working next to FUNNEL CAKES. ahhhh never had one before i started working, and i shame myself for not knowing its existence.

YUMMMMMMM.

they do the bump

2009-06-20T07:03:00.000-07:00

i am so easily wiled by happy music. :)

flour sackin'

2009-04-26T20:38:00.000-07:00

for the first time since school started, i had fun animating.

probably because the worst animation ive ever made was right before it-- the animal walk (the 3 things i fail the most at: walk cycles, animals, and animation).

WOO SUMMER.

monkey in the subway

2009-04-23T12:03:00.000-07:00

...obviously all im thinking of now is SLEEEEEEEEP.

Life Drawrin'

2009-04-16T20:24:00.000-07:00

a few of my favs from my recent life drawing portfolios.

*insert more summer resolutions here* woop!

Final paaaaintings

2009-04-09T13:52:00.000-07:00

day/night painting (my rough-turned-final actually :( )

failed rendition of the interior of the Hobbit Hole

master copy of a scene from a Disney movie (can you guess?) by new favorite painter, Peter Moehrle

(his stuff is so amazing, i have a thing for sunspots in paintings and he gets them right allll the time)

still life painting in acrylic

so ive resolved to shut up about how stupid gouache is and get over my fear of it by painting like a madman over the summer. YEAH. :)

EDIT: ohman stoooopid blogspot desaturated my uploads. whyyyyyy :((

Monkey Business

2009-04-09T01:28:00.001-07:00

i just realized the pun ahahhaha

Seymour the dysfunctional business monkey, my last character design for the school year! WOOP.

Junk in the Trunk

2009-03-01T11:22:00.000-08:00

my last character sequence assignment. i was all set and hyped to color it in, just for this posting BUT ive just discovered that i may have possibly lost my "new" tablet pen. on reading week too.

FML. :(((

schoolism

2009-01-25T11:04:00.000-08:00

some stuff for character design and painting. :)

le doodles

2009-01-24T07:18:00.000-08:00

lately ive found that i cant sit still long enough to finish something completely. :(

some skin + skydoll studies.

Happy 2009

2009-01-02T01:09:00.000-08:00

a little doodle gone wild, to welcome the new year.

here's to more photoshop practice! :)