All-Seeing City

Are your eyes open? They are all around us. Slitherin.. Smirking.. Crawling beneath the depths of our subconscious. They have conquered the pop culture and made us into monsters. Music, Television, Arts, Science, Technology, Politics, Religion..they are everywhere and we are nothing but puppets of this mad world. We have been brainwashed by the media, hypnotized by their beauty. We are like the pebbles beneath the great pyramids, being stepped upon and used as their foundation to build themselves on the top. They don't look like the villains that we see in cinemas and TV but they are the evil that is masked behind that fame, glory and power. Your life is nothing but a tiny speck in their universe.

This is part of the 12 doodles of August series.

Journal Entry #39 to #42

It's another journal entry from my 2009 planner. Dated February 9-15, 2009. This week is a very emotional week. It started happy then somehow drepressing then annoyed and ended fun. :D this is one memorable weekend coz i spent it with my friends, the losers. We don't have valentine dates so we decided to celebrate the valentines night together at one of our friends houses. since then the "Losers" were born. we celebrate our anniversary during the 14th of february in commemoration of this valentine-less night. :D

Ambao, Batang Yagit and Cactose

Just wanna share this portait reunion of my three characters united in one doodle.

Site Feature: mrdoob.com

I just discovered this cool site with different applications. I tried its multi-user sketchpad and harmony application which are cool apps for artists like me. The site is mrdoob.com, by Ricardo Cabello, a web developer and designer who loves to play around with javascripts and other things that you can possibly do with a webpage. Here are the outcome of my short visit of the website.



There are more experimental apps that you can explore, too, like a solar eclipse simulator, interactive blob and checkbox painters. :D

Kong of the Frunggle

Here's my storybook inspired digital art that i made last May. Kong lives in a place named Frunggle where giant Plubble Trees grow high. Little critters also inhabit here like the Trowl, Cleep, Tweakling.

Storybooks

I have this deviant art addiction for children's storybook style of illustrations lately. I really the simple shaky strokes that reminds me of my childhood days when i used to make simple drawings in my pad paper. There is an innocence that is beautiful to look at. The fusion of this style and the skill of today's artist made it more beautiful. I just love the little whimsical creatures, though weird, is kinda cute. The pastel colors and some vibrant ones just bring joy to every monitors or storybooks (if published.) One day i dream of having my own storybook, too, like the ever famous Christian Hans Andersen, Lemony Snickets, Lewis Caroll and Dr. Seuss. Here are some of my favorite deviants and their deviations who uses this children's storybook style.

ploop26

s4yo

chocolatita

flaviafou

bloodkirka

DjBisparulz

Orient Pearl Odyssey

Orient Pearl Odyssey (click for full view)

This is my latest digital doodle i made in illustrator. I actually made this a month ago but i kept it in my computer and almost forgot to finish it. I decided to finalize this one so I can post this while I have the time. The last thing I did is to add a texture so it won't look plain, i guess. Again, I used the ukkil style in this one like what I did in my previous doodles but this one is more clean and detailed. I titled it "Orient Pearl Odyssey" because i don't want to give it an obvious title like "the tales of the mermaid and her undersea friends"...hehe. Orient Pearl refers to Philippines as what the early conquistadors call it. I want to label this piece as a Filipino art though it has the influence of the western doodly character style. This is like a Filipino storybook version of Little Mermaid in her search of the orient pearl. It is also symbolic of how I feel towards the Filipinos around the world. We are highly influenced by the foreigners who once colonized us. Now, we can see its influence in our food, clothing, lifestyle, music and arts. It is our struggle as filipinos to look for our identity which is now a question mark for everyone. We don't have a strong identity in the world which one can easily point out in whichever aspect of life. We are so diverse and divided like our archipelagic country. So, it is also my advocacy as an artist and a Filipino to search for that identity so that one day we Filipinos will be looked in a different perspective in the whole world. Talking about Filipinos, i want to greet all Filipinos a belated happy independence day! Let us be proud of who we are and keep the fire burning in our hearts as we continue the odysseys of our lives. :D