A new month

Hello November. Time seems to fly by so quickly, I can't believe we're down to two more months and then bam it's 2008. I'm not looking forward to Winter.

Well as usual the kids had a lot of fun on Halloween. My lil sis came back with two bags full of treats. I've put away my share of the sweet goods for those long late night working hours, lol.




Here's Tuesday's life drawing sketches. Enjoy the rest of the pics.

Evil Pumpkins

Well Halloween is around the corner..actually it's tomorrow! My mom bought two pumpkins for me to carve. I had some fun doing these and it's been years since I've done them. The seeds were later roasted with some salt and spices. Damm they're so addictive, I'm eating some of them now as I write this, lol.



It's Tuesday and time for another round of life drawing class. I didn't get the chance to upload last week's sketches so here it is.

Hulking out

Day 3 of Life drawing class. Today was alright. I was hoping for a female model though, instead we had another male to pose for the class. I just had to make this a little bit more interesting.I couldn't help but have some fun sketching a Marvel character, lol. Speaking of which let's hope the sequel for 'Hulk' goes well. Enjoy!

Mural Memories

I found some old pics of my early airbrushing gigs online while I was Googling for stuff on murals and graffiti. It's been a while since I last visited the place where we did these murals over a decade ago. It was during this summer that I got my first hands on an airbrush tool. It was sunny and hot, but man I had fun and learned a lot.

I've always wondered what the condition of the artwork looks like now. I was shocked to find out that most of that artwork have deteriorated. Some have started flaking and have peeled off the walls. I just learned that it may have been due to the poor base that was done prior to the work. When I first started working, the walls have already been primed. The images on the large areas were drawn and laid out. After completion the whole mural was supposed to be sprayed with a sealant or 'graffiti-proofed'. Man, I'm not sure how long that lasted, lol.

For a while the project program helped revitalized the neighborhood and made it more welcoming for family and kids. Now after looking at some of these recent pics, I don't know. Just too bad and sad really.

Anyways here's to some great memories.

Digital sketching

Took some time to do some sketching today and did up some personal concepts. I've posted up last Tuesdays life drawing work as well. I just mainly focused on the light and shadows area with this plus I was tinkering with the brush settings on Photoshop. It was pretty fun.


My art teacher made a comment on how I barely looked down on my tablet while drawing. (Wait 'till I get my hands on a Cintiq! ;)) She gave it a try and was just amazed how far technology has come. I saved her sketched here, hehe :P.. She's awesome though because I learned a lot about art from her.


She's old school and still loves the traditional medium. But hey I do too that's why airbrush and paint during weekends. Besides, I love both mediums. I'm itching to do some oil paintings and that is something I haven't done in a long while.

Life drawing at CCAA - Day 1

I decided to attend Life Drawing classes today at my old high school. My former art teacher actually does these sessions about twice a year. Today was fun although there was less attendance from the previous class. Before leaving from home I contemplated whether to bring my sketch book, pencils and markers. Then it dawned on me; why not bring my laptop and Wacom tablet instead and do it all digitally. The result was very interesting and surprised everyone in class, hehe. Hey after all we are in the Digital Era.

Well I'm looking forward to the next class. Maybe I'll experiment with the different brush modes and add colors while at it ;)

Cousins Wedding #3

*Whew..what a weekend. I took the day off from Taats on Sunday to attend my cousins wedding. To simply put, it was fun and awesome. The ceremony, and reception locations were great specially the picture perfect weather. Well here are the pics. Enjoy.