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luciano lozano's ilustrista was one the first illustration blogs i ever subscribed to. so when he offered to give away signed postcards for his blog's second anniversary, i thanked the rss gods that allowed me to get my email in early. check out the lovely sparrow sketch on the envelope! i'm just thrilled. thank you very much mr. lozano!

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smilies of the non-digital kind: and a serving suggestion: available now at mollystamps . and i thought these were really cute, stamp pieces that work like those paper dolls you mix n' match... ... so you get something like this: and they come with glasses and baubles and things: you can get' em here .

new strips for a niche blog about domaining , the business of buying and selling web addresses: and also a series of strips for a portuguese fan site dedicated to the national football team, benfica. unfortunately a lot of comments about the characters not looking like the players they should have been based on :(

art in site calls itself a "magazine for artists, by artists, about artists". imagine that. the maiden issue isn't due out until next year, but they're looking for 3,000 people to create [not design, create--you need to mail in the thing you made so they can stick it on the book] 3,000 unique covers for the release. pretty cool idea. interested? click here to register and reserve a slot. there's still over 2,000 slots left, and you have until september 15. credit to toni for telling me about it. and speaking of magazines: graphikapinoy is a free, periodical pdf magazine about the local visual arts scene. their latest issue is about pinoy illustrators, some wicked stuff in there :] via komikero

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nakita nyo na ba yung jollitown sa GMA-7? bumili kami ng cd nun kamakailan. konyo na silang lahat. si jollibee, si mr. yum, si hetty, si twirly, pati yang traydor na hiphop na yan, si popo, nagtataglish na rin. parang awa nyo na ibalik nyo na'ng batibooooot!

more tutoring-related promo material, this time for the boys:

it is such a treat to have a client mail over a complimentary set of the stamps i designed for her: i've never seen transparent stamps before. the very first physical evidence of my labors. :) here's some of the art:

here's a bookmark-slash-business card i designed for a friend's tutoring service: i couldn't find any pictures of the powerpuff girls reading or writing or anything, so i had to draw them from scratch. it was trickier than i thought.

i am shocked, shocked no one's thought of this before. (and by no one's thought of this before i mean nothing showed up on the first page of my google search for " lolcats tagalog") click on the image for bigger ulolcats. more to follow soon.

a nice reader named kathy stumbled upon this blog while looking for educational materials for her 5th grade art class' "webquest" , which (this makes me feel so old) includes a virtual field trip to the musuem. so now this post of mine is part of her online lesson (it's down near the bottom here) , and i get a nice mention in the credits page. yay!

sweet revenge is when the contest holder, who had earlier declared as winner a work that plagiarized your own work , contacts you and asks you to do the rest of the illustrations. oh no no, sweet revenge is gloating about it. bwa ha ha ha

saw this web ad while checking my email. apparently, mastercard's definition of "more rewarding journeys" includes being able to afford huge-ass luggage big enough to fit an open laptop .

did a couple of four-letter jobs this past week. one paid out, one got cancelled, but both featured the f-bomb:

so he said he wanted: A hamster in an army helmet, firing an assault rifle. The helmet can be any type of modern infantry head protection. The beast itself must be a brutal Golden Hamster, none of those puny Russian dwarf things please. The rifle must be either an SA80 , M4 Carbine or an Avtomat Kalashnikova Forty Seven -whichever you prefer. i thought hamsters and AK-47's just seem to naturally go together, and so...

did this for an infant wear company. the client asked for like fifty revisions :)

how do you make the biggest drawing in the world? this guy used DHL to fly a GPS device along a path that traced an image around the globe. some may question the loops and squiggles (would transport planes fly like that?), but it's one hell of a grand idea. via laughing squid

college/high school reunion season is upon us, and this post from the totally excellent advertising is good for you triggered a reverie of lazy undergrad afternoons. in college, this guy was me: only instead of a cubicle it was a student's club room, and instead of a jacket i wore a t-shirt with holes, and instead of a really low chair i slept on the floor. i could do the same thing now but it's just isn't the same at home.