On Chowder and Paisleys

Have you seen Chowder? Oh that cute stupid thing in Cartoon Network? Well, Chowder it the next cutest thing in TV. He is a squeezy toy inspired character who is an apprentice of a chef named Mung Daal. What I like about the show is the style of animation that they used. They used patterns on the characters' clothing or skin, when a character moves, their patterns do not follow, but display as a "static" background.

I also love how they used stop motion and puppets at the end of the show. Anyways, I made this character while practicing drawing in Flash. I used one type of brush and created variations of thickness by zooming in and out while drawing. I created the bold outlines first and then zoomed it to created dots and dashes for the details. The design is inspired by paisley patterns. I colored and textured it in photoshop using this amazing victorian textures [link], of course inspired by the show "Chowder". I named it "Ambao" coined by my sister's goddaughter, Mica, which means daga or mouse. (she is afraid of tiny fury creatures.) Click on the image for larger view.

Ambao the Paisley

Lava Java

Few posts ago, I featured a doodle named "I heart Java" which me and my classmate made during our class. This work is kind of old but I think its not too late to post this. I traced the sketch in illustrator and made a psychedelic portait out of it. I made this because I truly love programming *sarcasm here.* haha. I changed the title to Lava Java cause I think its easier to remember and much cooler. ;D

Coffee or Colour?

Look! It's a vector of my sneaks!

Converse Coffee

Converse Colour

check out my deviantArt account for more doodlez! :D

Primitibo Sketch

This is basically my interpretation of nature and technology. We humans are at the center of all creations. Our task is to preserve what God has created for us. We are so blessed to have beautiful fishes in the oceans, beatiful landscapes and majestic celestial formations. Technology is a gift from us so we use it appropriately. We should not let technology destroy nature, instead let it be a tool for humans to explore and discover means to preserve it.

Meet Nathan and Drix

Nathan and Drix are my fictional characters that i designed for my animation class. Nathan is my protagonist and Drix is his sidekick. Nathan is an 18 year old boy who cannot live without his headphones, pen and sneakers. He loves music and arts. He's a hiphop dancer and he loves wearing retro inspired shirts. He's a lefty, and drawing is his past time. Wherever he goes, he will always look colorful. (He love neon colors.) He is softspoken and introverted but happy-go-luck and optimistic all the time. Drix, on the other hand, is a walking record player. No one can hear his music but the one that owns him. His music changes to the tune of his master's mood. He is such a charming pet and whenever Nathan feels happy or sad, he'll always be at his side.

Pinkadoodle

To be an artist you have to practice sketching or doodling everyday by simply starting at drawing objects around us. Through this, we make our eyes familiar with the basic shapes of things that we see. Toki Doki is one of my favorite graphic designers because of his creative and very simple character designs that is made out of simple everyday objects such as milk cartons or tape recorders. He is a pop artist located in US and is highly influenced in Japanese pop. All of his artworks can be seen in his outfit, from top to toe. Here is one of cszdoodles that is inspired by tokidoki.

Scientia workflow

Last october 2008, i finished a collection of artworks which i called "retroodle." It is a set of mixed media artworks that i made from sketch to digital post processing. Here, ill show you the workflow of one of my experimental works which i made for our college's Science and Technology Month, titled "scientia."

Check out my deviantArt account here for the full view.