Rediscovery of the Self

Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else.- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Last month I was invited by my good friend Carlo Reyes of Vinyl on Vinyl gallery to a group show for the advance release of the book Power of Balance by Clint Mendoza. We were asked to interpret his book about life balance and this is what I came up with:

Rediscovery of the Self
18X24 in
Graphite and Digital media on Canvas

I'm a little hesitant to use paint because I haven't used it for so long
and most of my work is done in Photoshop, so I decided to just draw the line art
and main visual on paper, scan it and tweak it on Photoshop,
added some colors and then print it on canvas.

These are the work-in-progress:

I also did an updated version that sadly didn't make it to the printer on time, but here it is,

and the colored version.

The show was entitled Volition & Stability and it opened last night,

here is the event poster and pictures of the entries.

Rainy weekend drawings

Rainy weekend = emo weekend, at dahil bumubuhos din ang mga alaala tuwing umuulan.

Ilang drawings lang habang umuulan at nakikinig sa Stars album.

Emo Balloon

Wild Thing

Habilin

coffee, baggage and balloons

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

December sketches

Mga luma at bagong sketches.

sketchbook cover

 usok at ulap

sometimes i feel stuck #2

New books!

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!