batangpapel

Craig Thompson talks 'Habibi' and shows off his illustration skills

2012-01-27T16:20:00.001-08:00

December sketches

2011-12-23T01:26:00.000-08:00

Mga luma at bagong sketches.

sketchbook cover

usok at ulap

sometimes i feel stuck #2

New books!

2011-12-22T23:41:00.000-08:00

Mga bagong libro ngayong december halo-halong binili at niregalo. Madalas nagda-download lang ako ng ebook pero iba pa rin talaga ang pakiramdam ng nakakahawak ng actual pages ng isang libro. Kasama sa mga bagong dating sa maliit kong library ay:

The Artful Dodger ni Nick Bantock, collection ng mga luma nyang trabaho kasama na rin ang mga kwento nya sa paggawa ng Griffin and Sabine

Rebus ni James Jean (salamat sa mga post ni Rommel sa blog niya at nakumbinsi na kong bumili)

Out of Picture Volume 2-collection siya ng mga short stories na dinraw ng iba't ibang artists

Neverwhere ni Neil Gaiman

Blindness ni Jose Saramago- isa sa mga pinakapaborito kong nobela.

The Cave ni Jose Saramago

Habibi ni Craig Thompson-technically di ko ngayong December ito nabili pero ngayon ko pa lang mababasa kaya sinama ko na rin. Isa sa mga inabangan kong libro ng matagal, kasama ko pa yung isa kong kaibigan sa pagbantay sa blog nya, sa wakas lumabas na din.

salamat ng marami kay Rina at Charlene para sa Blindness at sa Neverwhere, matagal ko nang nabasa yung mga novel na to pero ngayon lang ako nagkaron ng sarili kong kopya. Ayus!

Human Rights: Everyone's Legacy

2011-12-10T16:32:00.001-08:00

Last year I was commissioned by The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) to do a video about the history of human rights that focuses on the events in Asia and the Philippines. I'm posting this now in celebration of the International Human Rights Day.

Credits:
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)
produced this video with support from the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) through The Asia Foundation (TAF).

Concept and story:
Melinda Quintos de Jesus
Luis V. Teodoro

Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) staff members
Kathryn Roja G. Raymundo
Martha A. Teodoro
Hector Bryant L. Macale
Ruby Shaira F. Panela and
Alaysa Tagumpay E. Escandor
provided research and other support.

Photos
Lito Ocampo
Alanah Torralba

Music
Pinikpikan

Narrator
Juliene Mendoza

Creative and technical
Ivan Bryan Reverente

Special thanks to
Youth for Human Rights (humanrights.com)
University of the Philippines - Diliman, College of Mass Communication

©2010 Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)
All Rights Reserved

Ilusyon

2011-11-15T19:09:00.000-08:00

Sa katapusan ng buwan maglalabas ang Musikangbayan ng kanilang bagong album, entitled "Ilusyon." Nagkaron ulit ako ng pagkakataon na makagawa ng design para sa kanila, ang main idea ay nanggaling sa carrier single nila na "Ilusyon" isang awit na tungkol sa mga pagbabagong ipinangako ngunit di pa rin natutupad. Narito ang Lyrics ng kanta:

Ilusyon

E, ano, e ano kung maganda ang sinabi

Ito ba, ito ba, ito ba’y mangyayari

E ano, e ano kung taimtim ang pangako

Ito ba, ito ba’y magkakatotoo

Tulad ng lumipas na mga pangulo

Mga talumpati’y walang kasimbango

Hitik sa pangako ngunit napapako

Ilusyon lang ang pagbabago

Hangga’t pare-pareho mukhang nakapaligid

Mga asendero, negosyanteng ganid

Pulitikong bulok, dayong mapanghimasok

Ilusyon lang ang pagbabago

Hanggat sa araw-araw mayroong lumilikas

At sa ibayong dagat kabuhaya’y hanap,

Hanggat may iskwater sa sariling bayan

Ilusyon lang ang pagbabago

Hanggat may nagpapasasa sa Hacienda Luisita

At wala pa ring lupa ang mga magsasaka

Korapsyong laganap paanong magwawakas?

Ilusyon lang ang pagbabago

Hanggat nagpapatuloy ang mga pagpaslang

At ang katarungan di pa rin nakakamtan

At ang mga may sala malayang-malaya

Ilusyon lang ang pagbabago

O isa na namang malaking panloloko?

Kinuha ko yung mga elements sa kanta bilang mga indibidwal na elemento sa disenyo tulad ng imahe ng mga manggagawang bukid sa Hacienda Luisita, mga pagpaslang sa maguindanao at ginawan ng paraan na pwede silang buuin bilang isang main artwork sa isa sa mga pages ng album. Ang ideya ay makagawa ng isang main artwork na may imahe ng kaunlaran bilang ulo pero napaliligiran din ng nag-uumapaw na problema sa lipunan. Salamat kanila sir Danny Fabella sa muling pagtitiwala sakin na magdisenyo para sa kanila.

Musikang Bayan (People’s Music) is an acoustic band.
It was formally formed in 2002, a year after its first music album was recorded and launched. It is composed of 4 members whose objective is to write and popularize the songs of ordinary people from different sectors of society. Its name was derived from those who toil, create and build our society and who makes history. Their lives, aspirations and heroism always inspire the group to compose and perform.

For orders
please text to 09209600641
Musikangbayan Facebook

Salamat.

Today is the International Day of the Dissappeared

2011-08-29T19:46:00.000-07:00

Desap artwork

Digital mix media

STOP ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES NOW!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The International Day of the Disappeared on August 30 is an annual commemoration day created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives. The impulse for the day came from the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared (Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos, or FEDEFAM), a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 in Costa Rica as an association of local and regional groups actively working against secret imprisonment and forced disappearances in a number of Latin-American countries.

Work on secret imprisonment is an important part of the activities for a number of international bodies and organizations in the fields of human rights activism and humanitarian aid, including for example Amnesty International (AI), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The International Day of the Disappeared is an opportunity to highlight these institutions' work, increase public awareness, and to call for donations and volunteers.

Of those agencies, the ICRC has additional privileges due to its special status as a non-governmental sovereign entity and its strict policy of neutrality. In some cases, the ICRC is the only institution granted access to specific groups of prisoners, thereby enabling a minimum level of contact and inspection of their treatment. For affected families, messages transmitted by the ICRC are often the only hint about the fate of these prisoners.

Tyrant's fall

2011-08-03T18:19:00.000-07:00

Did an illustration for a poem by Ninoy Aquino.
This is my entry for Ang INK's Your Heart Today: Ninoy and Cory in Art

Tyrant's Fall
12X15in
Watercolor and Digital media on paper

The exhibit is on view at the Ortigas Foundation Library,
2^nd Floor Ortigas Building until September 3, 2011.

Photos of the opening can be viewed here and here.

END’S BEGINNING

What now? What next?

When will this end?

Man is born free to live

to live in chains.

To be born is to die

To love is to struggle,

endure, suffer, sacrifice

for what? For whom?

Freedom, liberty, happiness

zenith of human aspirations

But does he really want

freedom?

Can he appreciate liberty?

Which comes first

security of happiness

food or freedom?

Peace at any cost or liberty?

A living Filipino

or a dead hero?

Why struggle, life is short

“Enjoy while there’s time”

After all, life ends in the grave.

Advice of the sage!

Sweat and tears

water the seed

Seed falls and grows,

Bear fruits and dies.

Falls, grows again

Dies, grows again.

Man is trapped

In a vicious circle

round and round

there is no escape

“There are no tyrants

where there are no slaves.”

Cry and fathom despair

to understand hope – to

discover the meaning of love

Love and live

Live and die.

Nothing to nothing

hole to hole

womb to tomb

tears for birth

tears for death

water to water.

Live to die

Die to live

Kill freedom

Long live tyranny

That Freedom may be

BORN AGAIN!

Prison Poem of Ninoy

August 11, 1973

2011-07-06T15:24:00.001-07:00

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing. - Neil Gaiman

Gilly

2011-05-29T06:43:00.000-07:00

Office doodles, this is my boss's cute daughter Gilly, she LOOOOVES pink and laughs like a bully. :P

sometimes i feel stuck

2011-05-22T04:42:00.000-07:00

of waiting and space

2011-04-17T19:48:00.000-07:00

realization and identities

2011-03-27T19:44:00.000-07:00

random sketches

i dream of clear skies

2011-02-25T19:42:00.000-08:00

18X24
Digital media on canvas

entry for “Rockin’ the Arts 3: Paint the eARTh green” an exhibit by the UP Art Studies Society for the benefit of Earth Day Network Philippines a non-stock, non-profit and voluntary organization engaged in advocacy and implementation of various programs for the protection, conservation, rehabilitation, preservation, and sustainable use and management of the environment and its natural resources.

Trip to Quiapo

2010-10-25T20:48:00.000-07:00

the new reprint of Ricky Lee's scriptwriting manual "Trip to Quiapo"

design by Karl Castro
cover illustration by me

paglusong

2010-10-10T18:58:00.000-07:00

Isang illustration na ginawa ko para sa isang kaibigan. Tungkol ito sa pagtanda, minsan may pagkakataon na hinihingi satin ang tumanda ng mas maaga sa ating inaasahan, at kadalasan nalulungkot tayo kapag dumating na sa point na hindi na natin nagagawa yung mga paborito nating gawin nng mga bata tayo, minsan pa nga namimiss natin yung pakiramdam ng pagiging bata na parang lahat posible at wala kang limitasyon. Sa isang kwentuhan na nauwi sa paglalabas ng mga angas (quarter life crisis? hehe), napag-usapan namin ng kaibigan ko na parang yung pagtanda ay constant na paggawa ng mga compromises. Na parang nung bata ka armored ka at protektado sa mga negative things at sa idea ng limitasyon. Sa paglusong mo sa mundo ng pagtanda parang unti-unting natatanggal 'tong armor na to, kasabay ng pagkawala ng proteksyon mo ay ang unti-unti ring pagbibigay ng parte sarili mo sa bagay na inaakala mong kailangan mong gawin, o ma-achieve, o makuha hanggang dumating na sa point na wala ng natira sa'yo kundi isang hubad na pagkatao na vulnerable sa pain. Mahalaga rin siguro na sa pagharap natin sa pagtanda na puno ng malalaking desisyon at responsibilidad ay wag rin nating kalimutan yung batang tayo na kayang maniwala sa mga possibilities at di kagad nadidiscourage sa mga disappointments at frustrations nating kinakaharap. ayun lang.

i burn

2010-10-09T19:16:00.000-07:00

repost.

balikbayan box

2010-09-16T19:24:00.000-07:00

"Balikbayan Box"
10x10
Digital media on canvas

my entry to the "When I was seven" art exhibit
of Ang INK last June 1-15, 2010.

"Ang INK"---Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Illustrators for Children) -- is an association of artists committed to the creation and promotion of illustrations for children.

coffee swimming

2010-09-16T19:10:00.000-07:00

repost lang ng old drawings.

raining in my mind

2010-09-16T19:08:00.000-07:00

emo moment.

pagsubok sa takot

2010-08-21T19:27:00.000-07:00

"pagsubok sa takot"/ "testing fear"
17X24
digital media on canvas

my entry to the "Postcards from Nowhere" art exhibit
of Ang INK, Sept 19-30 2010 at Tala Gallery.

"Ang INK"---Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Illustrators for Children) -- is an association of artists committed to the creation and promotion of illustrations for children.

to view the other entries click here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.470203985762.265944.602445762

notes: paano nga ba pinagtatagumpayan ang takot? paano ka ba bigla na lang tatalon at bubulusok sa di mo pa nalalaman? paano ba kumbinsihin ang sarili na kaya mo gawin ang inaakala mong di mo kaya? paano ba kumawala sa siklo ng pagtatanong papunta sa aktuwal na pagkilos. tanong ko ito palagi sa sarili, kahit pa tila gumagawa ako ng maliliit na hakbang pasulong di ko pa rin maiwasan ang dumungaw muna sa pupuntahan tapos umatras ng ilang pulgada at mag-isip, mag-analisa, pagduduhan ang sariling mga kakayanan, matutong umasa, subukin ang sariling kakayanan, at magsimula ulit sa simula.

pagtatala ng memorya

2010-08-14T19:35:00.000-07:00

Bakit kaya laging binabalikan ang mga natapos na?
Kahit parang malayo na sa mga pagkakataong iyon naghahanap pa rin ng palatandaan dahil sa takot na ito'y tuluyang mawala. Hindi para sa baguhin ang kasalukuyang kalagayan pero para lamang makumbinsi ang sarili na hindi ito gawa ng imahinasyon lang, at kahit naitapon na o naiwala na ang mga pisikal na bakas ng mga alaalang iyon ay susuyurin pa rin ang bawat sulok ng isipan at pipiliting balikan, hawakan, yakapin ang mga pagkakataong may naramdamang totoo.

minsan nanaginip ako

2010-04-25T21:37:00.000-07:00

this is a digital artwork i made for Ang INK's illustrators catalog.

bangkang papel

2010-03-28T19:38:00.000-07:00

study for an illustration project

the dreamer

2009-10-12T19:21:00.000-07:00

repost ulit.
20X20 in
Digital media on canvas

this was my entry for the "When I grow up" exhibit of UP Art Studies Society (UP ASS) for the benefit of the children at CRIBS Foundation.

Dealing with a terror teacher

2009-07-28T21:41:00.000-07:00

contribution artwork for Ang INK's ink corner in manila bulletin's sat issue.

class struggle

2009-07-10T19:39:00.000-07:00

repost.

GBX fan art

2009-07-02T22:32:00.000-07:00

wala na namang magawa kaya eto, magfa-fan art muna ko hehe.

vector art ng mga ka-batch kong banda. Gupit Binata X, bisitahin sila sa [link]

reference photo galing kay piya constantino.

Si tatang at mga himala ng ating panahon

2009-06-07T20:56:00.000-07:00

A special edition of Ricky Lee's classic 1988 anthology, "Si tatang at mga himala ng ating panahon". The collection brings together Lee's reportage, short stories, interviews and commentaries, and the screenplay of "Himala (Miracle)."

This edition features a new book design and tons of new images. There are two additional articles: a short piece in memory of director Lino Brocka, and a new article on the making of Himala.

Had fun doing this, I also got to do illustrations for "Kabilang sa nawawala" which is one my favorite stories in the book.

Book and cover design: Karl Castro
Contributing illustrators: Kendrick Bautista and Ivan Reverente

Paglalakad

2009-01-18T22:23:00.000-08:00

mabubuhay ako ng nagmamahal

2009-01-18T21:26:00.000-08:00

Paglipad series

2008-12-24T21:27:00.000-08:00

a personal project done in one of those cold nights of december.

Para kay B

2008-11-30T20:52:00.000-08:00

first novel of renown scriptwriter Ricky Lee,
Para kay B (o kung paano dinevastate ng pag-ibig ang 4 out of 5 sa atin).

Cover design by Karl Castro
Cover illustrations by me

Rosas ng Digma Vol. 2

2008-09-25T22:01:00.000-07:00

Credits
Executive Producer: Frances F. Ramos
Producer: Marevic H. Parcon
Sound Engineer: Andy Villamor
Cover concept, artwork and design: Ivan Reverente
Lay-out: Ivan Reverente and Karl Castro
All songs recorded and mixed at AudioCraft Recording Studio, Baguio City except Bagong Bukas which was recorded in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada by Marco Luciano

Sa lahat ng umiibig at nakikibaka para sa isang malaya at payapang mundo, ito ay para sa inyo.-Musikangbayan

Musikang Bayan (People’s Music) is an acoustic band. It was formally formed in 2002, a year after its first music album was recorded and launched. It is composed of 4 members whose objective is to write and popularize the songs of ordinary people from different sectors of society. Its name was derived from those who toil, create and build our society and who makes history. Their lives, aspirations and heroism always inspire the group to compose and perform.

Rosas ng Digma Vol. 2

2008-09-25T21:07:00.000-07:00

Herstory

2008-03-12T21:55:00.000-07:00

Did this is for an issue of the Philippine Collegian, the official student publication of the University of the Philippines. This is for the women's month thematic on the feature section.

Larong Pambata

2008-02-17T22:05:00.000-08:00

These are the illustrations I made for UNICEF Foundation
under TBWA /TEQUILA\MANILA, entitled
"Larong Pambata/Children’s Games”
a direct mailer about the rape cases on Filipino children.

The project was a finalist in the 20th AD CONGRESS on 2007
and in the 2008 International Advertising Awards in New York.

24/7 walang panahon

2005-05-23T22:13:00.000-07:00

book cover for the 2004-2005 philippine collegian anthology