Sunday, November 15, 2009

We Are The Champions..of The World.

That's right. Our CHAMP has done it again! Manny 'The PAC MAN' saw nuthin' but CHERRIES throughout the whole 12 Rounds and gobbled up Cotto like there was no tomorrow. Sorry, but the Scotiabank sponsored logo was barely visible on Cotto's ass 'coz of all that red smearin, lol. Go Champ Go.Galing talaga. Just check out the stats card.

Our champ came out victorious again. He's a Beast right now.

Congrats Manny Pacquiao! YOU make us Filipinos proud. Visiting home next year should be fun.

Manny's facial expression is hilarious as he seems to smile a lot. The dude obviously enjoys his job. Same goes here. My loves bites on the ladies ;).

Now slowly getting into movie makeup fx. It's more fun than it looks. Thank you for the inspiration Mr.Stan Winston (R.I.P)
..'Nuff said boyz. More on this 'till next time.


..and once more for the 'PAC-MAN'! THE MOST HUMBLE CHAMP I'VE EVER KNOWN! Heck, the most humble, charitable human being..PERIOD! Good for you Manny and we'll always root for ya!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall 2009

Well it's been one fun busy summer..actually we barely had any summer heat and I can't believe Winter is just around the corner. Plenty of eye candy today so enjoy the view..an 'Oh la la' is all I gotta say!
My Heavy Metal - rock and rollin' theme..Yeoww! Digital/mix medium. I won a cool prize from the original line art version of this piece.
Life drawing sessions. Kids, shes not naked ok, lol.

A fan with his new piece of art. He wanted me to sketch his character on the left. Thanks buddy!
Another fan. Decepticon style. This dude came by twice for me to airbrush two more shirts which I can't post up here 'coz there may be kids reading this blog, lol..Let's just say he's truly a Baddddddd dude, haha.
Venom. Just one of my fav sketches that day..Grahhhhh!
By Crom!..I mean, by Odins Beard..err, I mean Asgard! A commissioned shirt and another satisfied fan.
Showing my buddy Adrian the airbrushing skills. Coloring the God of Thunder at this point. Damn, this was fun and easier than sketching on peoples books. An airbrushing 'sketch-off' would be sick and I would have a blast at these.

Victor Lucas of Electric Playground fame easily took notice of our artwork and just had to do an interview. It was hilarious how he first came by and just was stoked by what we had on display, the posters, and the looping 3D animation on display was very helpful as well and got him very interested in our projects. Funny how he still remembers us from way back at a San Diego Comic Con.
Victor gave us awesome reviews on what were presently doing and looking forward to what we have in store. So there's no doubt we're going in the right direction. We appreciate the big props man! Go EP go!

A relaxing day at work at my fav spot downtown.

Perfect weather for some out door art. Doin' the bullets 'Jackson Pollock' style!, lol..
El finito. A 'lil inspiration from three of my movies, Terminator, Aliens and Predator.

Tattooing. Students practicing on a 'rubber fake skin'.
Keep up the good work guys.

My fav drawing tool on the planet. Gotta love Wacom!
The greatest and my fav tool on the planet. Gotta love Wacom!
and the love shows and I know Wacom loves me too ;)..Send me more toys please! lol.
A sneak peak of what's coming up for next year from a video game/toys design company I'm working at ;)...Storyboarding and behind the scenes. I can't reveal much or else I'd get in trouble, lol, but be assured you will see more of this by next year and mark your calendars. 2010 will be insane.

My recent prize thanks to the power of the tablet. Wacom ishhtheshizznek! There's a new product online that has a dual function of a stylus and a touchpad..oh I must have thee! :D . I was lucky enough to win two Wacoms tablets, and have given it to two of my art buddies. My youngest sister is so used to one of these already I might get one for her for Christmas, hehe.

Sis at the tattoo supply store. Here's the first piece I did for our display.

My other sister getting her first tattoo. She had a scar over her knee so she wanted to cover it up with her fav logo, the Playboy Bunny. Crazy girl, lol.

It begins here. Creating the latest Tattoo wall art canvas for our shop. Size - 5' x 6' feet.
Colors filling in and about 80% there...
Didn't take long and I say I'm ready to battle, lol. This is why I love to mix and do both mediums of Art. I think it transfers well to what I do in the digital realm...
..such as this. This one is titled 'A Distant Journey'.Graffiti and Photoshop.
and finally for some STEEL BREED! You are now witnessing the CGI birth here folks! It's been a long time coming (I was surprised to find out that my initial concept designs go back as far in high school) so I'm excited to unleash these babies out there. Last year I asked a very good friend of mine to help write the story for this concept and here we are, the site is up and running! We hope that many will enjoy our work. Cheers.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Organics









I'm hooked on gardening. Right after work today I went straight to my backyard, watered the plants and took these pics. I grew up farming with my family back in the Philippines and I still remember how great it was to be able to grow your own food. We also had livestock and poultry back then, wow..if only Canada had longer Summer seasons, lol.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Our Mother of Democracy

A very happy 5 Years Anniversary TAATS! My newly renovated shop lookin' spiffy. I can't believe that my cousin and I started this business doing sticker tattoos together. I'll never forget buying my own Ericsson cellphone ($300 at the time) with just this part-time gig, lol.

Opened on July 24, 2004, An airbrushing service soon followed after that, and now we have a shop/tattooing school in downtown Toronto as well as a tattoo supply store. Cheers and here's to another 5 years and more!

Why I can never get bored of this art form. The various ideas I create always keeps the mind fresh and excited. I'll be posting some more custom bikes soon..
Some jam doodles with the guys over beer. We somehow started started talking about Pokemon stuff and ended up with these..

Haha. Neil's evolving 'Fire' pet on the left and my 'Water' pokemon on the right.

As for water..here's the fam and friends enjoying some R&R at the beaches.
Of course, part of my relaxing means having to draw tattoos on my siblings backs, lol..Well, these are temporary of course and are always fun to do specially when there are hot women around ;) lol..

..like here at the Toronto Burlesque Festival. I took time to participate in the group Art exhibition.
That was fun and there were so many eye candy works on display.
I said eye candy..
Free drink on this corner! :D

Coco Framboise where are you??..Dang, I should've taken a pic with her here.

Lovely creatures. This was a drawing from a sequential panel I did years ago and now I think I have the right skills to fully illustrate them properly. Keep an eye out for this 'lil monster book.


If only we had more people like her as our President, our country would be in a greater state. 'People Power!' and thank you Tita Cory!