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so i tried doing the hourly comics thing at komikon... i cheated on the first couple of cartoons because i only got the idea at eight forty that morning. click on the image to embiggen if you can't read 'em. and also please excuse the poor scanning. if it helps, the originals didn't look much better :P the girl next to me was with i-north comics--they had like a hundred titles for sale and hogged all the table space. not that i hold it against them or anything. for the record, nakahanap ako ng tabo. it was not destined to be mine. here's the sketch i made of the little girl: what's wrong with it?! i made her look like a hayao miyazaki heroine fer cryin' out loud! yeesh. the guy was chapel from silent sanctum manga. he's a marketing geeeniuss! i finally got to walk around and buy stuff when cherry watched my table for me. she even continued the hourly comics! guess i should've told her abstract art doesn't count, though. he he (edit: cherry say...

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first i saw this in my rss and fell in love with it: and you may recall that sucky wallpaper i made a while back. and so i put two and two together and made these: 1153x865 1024x768

...took about ten minutes from start to finish, was created under audience pressure, and all began with "draw me a scorpion, papa!": "a scorpion has a big head, sharp jaws, lots of legs and lots of eyes." "and a tail!" "and a tail with a stinger." "yes!" "it catches things like grasshoppers in its pincers and stings them with its tail." "then what?" "then the grasshopper dies, and the scorpion eats it." "draw me an ant!" "okay..." "the ant is trying to take the grasshopper away from the scorpion! who do you think will win?" "the ant!" "the scorpion!" "you're both wrong!" "the grasshopper escapes in the middle of the fight!" THE END POSTSCRIPT: a sequel to this story exists, involving the scorpion and a cockroach; it was, however, deemed unpublishable due to extremely graphic ickyness.

while visiting cherry's parents last sunday my niece xya may (pronounced zaya --and her initials are xyz. how cool is that?) saw me cramming a few project sketches at the dinner table. i showed her my brush pen, which she promptly borrowed, and she quite impressed me with these: a little smudgy, but still way better than anything i could do when i was in second grade. as is often the case, though, her parents didn't seem terribly interested in the fact that their child could draw (mine weren't either). xya may asked me to teach her to draw, but the best i could do was point her to the library. i forgot it was the beginning of summer vacation.

someone on the contest boards asked me to draw a sample cartoon panel in a stick figure kind of style-- the results at left. (the joke ain't mine, i read on boingboing or something) drawing like this was more fun than i expected, though. it's a lot about getting at essences--saying the most with least--presenting a situation and making it interesting at the same time, using the minimum number of strokes. it's lazy cartooning, and lazy is so my style! now how do you convince a newspape to print this sort of thing...

not based, by the way, on jojoy .

a freak unseasonable storm knocked out the power last night, and i realized we were short on candles. so you know what i did? i took a bunch of gift handmade candles and lit them . i tore off the paper ribbons and handicraft-y jute wrapping and i set those suckers on fire. they burned real nice. we should take a match to every useless thing people give us because they can't think of anything else to give. it's very gratifying. there's a bunch of ceramic figurines in a box somewhere around here...

a trial sketch of a "pirate with a long tongue".

concepts for a company mascot design.

ayan kase. pinakita mo pang pwedeng magdrowing sa kompyuter. yung "magic" na bolpen na walang tinta at yung "magic" na papel na di naman nasusulatan. tuloy ilang beses isang araw: "i-drowing mo si spider-man!" nasubukan nyo na bang mag-one minute sketch nang me nakakandong sayong dalawang bata?