TRAVEL FACTOR TRAINING TRIP

Travel Factor's part-time coordinators Batch 3 / Team WAF.. :)
at Xtremely Xpresso Cafe in Subic

Cool people. :)

MATABA

Shane can't get enough of me.. :)

ANG ILLUSTRADOR NG KABATAAN APPLICATION FOR 2012

Poster by James Abalos

Ang Illustrador ng Kabataan is now open for new members!

Requirements:

Accomplished application form HERE

1 illustration based on the story “Anong Gupit Natin Ngayon”

5 sample illustrations from your portfolio

Deadline on February 29, 2012, 5pm

Email the requirements at hello@ang-ink.org

IPOD

Crazy about iPod.. :)

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

Shane greeted me in such a sweet, unique way last New Year.. Sooper!

WISHLIST: AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE BOOK

I know it's January already and I received my wishlist last December, thank you friends and family. But I so want this book so bad! It'll help me be a better designer and illustrator this year. I know you love me guys, and I feel the same towards you. So let's exchange an early Christmas gift for 2012? Hahaha! I love!

I promise to spare you on my Birthday this year and on Christmas if you purchase the new one at USD 27.75 and I will spare you on my Birthday (only) if you purchase the used one at USD 17.59. Shipping is free folks! Order online here at Better World Books Please?

Allright, Tina Bacud! You asked me what I want for my birthday diba? Eto na yun. Kahit maghati na kayo nina Allan, Joice and Aica! Yung bagong copy ha? Hahaha! Demanding much! Pak!

EXPERIMENTATION IN SOUND ART TRADITION - REVERB IN LOPEZ MUSEUM & LIBRARY

In the past four months, visitors to the Lopez Memorial Museum have followed the movement of The Machine of IC Jaucian, whipped out their smart phones to get data – both audio and video-- from the QR code composed by Eric Ambata, and sought to catch sound  as it rippled, bounced, etc  within the metal sheet of Tad Ermitaño’s work.

February 11, 2012, 2-4PM
Fee: Php 100 for Students and Php 120 for non-students

On February 11, Saturday, visitors will have an opportunity to hear from these artists in Artists’ Talk. In discussing their work, Ambata, Ermitano, Jaucian will touch on the graphic take on hell and augmented realities, applications of sound, and how art comes to play in closing perceived gap between science and the imagination, and furthering both.

2011: SURF AND MUSIC FESTIVAL - BALER, AURORA

I had gone mad, I was too lazy to post a blog about my Baler trip last year!
So, I enjoyed this Baler trip better than Calaguas. I don't like kasi the idea of you not doing anything under the scorching heat of the sen.. :D it's like "cook me, and I will love every bit of your heat!"

Dinama ko ang init ng araw dito. As in! I have my dark blue Esprit umbrella (kailangan nakadetalye!) and Brown scarf around me, so my skin's like protected sa sen's UV rays. Arte!

I got me my own surf board. Kidding.

We left Manila on a Friday night, (October 28). We slept inside the bus for 7 hours and I was kind of expecting that we will arrive sa Baler ng 5am. Kasi I thought Aurora is in Quezon Province. Nakipagtalo pa ako with Allan that Baler is in Quezon. I got a dose of my own medicine. Haha! At least when you travel, you will learn - by experience.

LIVE LIFE, REGRET NOTHING

• I took the chance.. I am here. Adjusting and that kind of stuffs,
• I always tell the truth. Because if not, I will find my self bleeding with all my bluffing. 
• Cool, I am not dating anyone. Fuck Valentines Day again!
• One of the hardest word ever! NO!
• I am fucking spending all my hard-earned money over unplanned trips and whatnots. But it makes me happy though.
• I met a lot of cool dudes and dudettes last year. All in random.
• I am always random, eh?
• I love you! There, I said it.
• Yeah, yeah, yeah!
• I always laugh with jokes. No exemptions.
• I cry when I am in pain or I am sad. But to cry without reason? Hell.. Or maybe that's cool sometimes.
• Sorry!
• You mean A LOT to me.. 
• I think that you're a jerk.. :P
• When I was in MFC, I do this almost every hour of the day. I don't do this anymore after I left them last year. Happy soul searching for me again!
• I am trying to live my life as much as I could. I wanna do things my own way. Parang feeling ko minsan, mumi-mid-life crisis na naman ako.
• But after all these years, I don't regret it.

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: PEN TOOL EXERCISES

The Pen Tool is probably the hardest tool I've ever tried. Back in 2007 when I was introduced to Corel Draw, I kind of cursed it because I need to drag and release and delete that single line I spent some hundreds of era to make. So the only solution for me was to use loads of basic shapes and group them together.

Some years ago, I learned using the pen tool but I still had troubles using it then.

Goodbye Corel Draw X4, Hello Adobe Illustrator!
I fell in love with Adobe Illustrator the minute I made my first vector out of it. It was my school assignment and we traced Garfield. Ang kyut lang! It wasn't perfect but I was able to hide the rough edges by using thick outlines.

After months of practice and with the help of my pen tablet, I can work now using the Pen Tool easily.