quicky portrait

inception, leonardo dicaprio

Lindsey Olivares

while surfing blogs, i stumbled upon this amazing artist. wow, simply wow!!!

Anchored HD from lindsey olivares on Vimeo.

I'll meet you in the Middle from lindsey olivares on Vimeo.

A Sofa Story from lindsey olivares on Vimeo.

Jason Seiler - artist in trance

i'm re-posting a feed from Jason Seiler's facebook profile. read through the master's words of wisdom:-)

This is a very loose and quick sketch that I did last night while watching some T.V. with my wife. It was fun because I decided to do the entire sketch all in scribbles. I kept my hand and grip loose . . . . I just moved my hand around rarely lifting it off the surface. Sometimes when I sketch and watch T.V. at the same time I get into a sort of "trance", I'm not sure where the "time" has gone or what I was doing? The sketch seems to just "draw itself!"

I wanted to take this time to just say how important I feel it is as artists to draw and sketch every day. it doesn't matter what kind of artist you are or hope to be, becoming a better artist takes work, time and energy. You need to draw and sketch on a daily basis, "it won't happen on its own".

Friends of mine that have become successful in the "art" or "illustration" world don't waste time playing video games or socializing, they spend most of their time working on jobs and when they're not doing that they're sketching in sketch books, or working on new techniques on their painting, trying out new palettes and so forth . . . "it won't happen on it's own".

Somethings to try if you're wanting to improve your work as an artist.

1. Give yourself assignments. For example I must do at least one or two sketches a day, and at least one or two finished drawings or paintings a month.

2. Draw or paint from life. I believe it's important to get out of your house and experience the world and draw, paint, loosen up a bit . . . it's therapeutic! For me, I try to get out at least once a week and sketch in a cafe or restaurant, "smell" the Chicago air, and "hear" the sounds of the city. I also love to get out and do oil sketches, or plein air.

Remember, "it won't happen on it's own".

nael abulhula

gretchen barretto in the 80s

liezl sumilang martinez

mamoun hejazi

baker fellow

Fernando Amorsolo

Fernando Amorsolo is one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light.

He was born on May 30, 1892 in the Paco neighborhood, when Manila was still under Spanish sovereignty, to Pedro Amorsolo, a book keeper, and Bonifacia Cueto. Amorsolo spent his childhood in Daet, Camarines Norte, where he studied in a public school and was tutored at home in Spanish language reading and writing. Filipinos in History. Manila, Philippines: National Historical Institute. After his father’s death, Amorsolo and his family moved to Manila to live with Don Fabian de la Rosa, his mother's cousin and a Philippine painter. At the age of 13, Amorsolo became an apprentice to De la Rosa, who would eventually become the advocate and guide to Amorsolo's painting career. During this time, Amorsolo's mother embroidered to earn money, while Amorsolo helped by selling water color postcards to a local bookstore for 10 Philippine peso|centavos each. Amorsolo's brother, Pablo Amorsolo, was also a painter. Amorsolo's first success as a young painter came in 1908, when his painting Leyendo el periódico took second place at the Bazar Escolta, a contest organized by the Asociacion Internacional de Artistas. Filipinos in History. Manila, Philippines: National Historical Institute. Between 1909 and 1914, Amorsolo enrolled at the Art School of the Liceo de Manila, where he earned honors for his paintings and drawings.

[source: wikipedia]

pops fernandez from the 80s

dug up an old portrait of philippine concert artist, pops fernandez, date states october 23, 1984. wow:-O

atras abante

facial animation exercise in maya:-) enjoy

Paul Valery

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
[Paul Valery]

Peace symbol

CND

N

D

Gerald Herbert Holtom [20 January 1914 – 18 September 1985] was a professional designer and artist.

A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Holtom was a conscientious objector in World War II. On 21 February 1958 he designed the Nuclear Disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, organised by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, Easter 1958 [4–7 April]. The logo was not copyrighted, and was available for use by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, also founded in 1958; it later became known in the wider world as a general-purpose peace symbol. The design was a combination of the letters "N" [two arms outstretched pointing down at 45 degrees] and "D" [one arm upraised above the head] of the flag semaphore alphabet, standing for nuclear disarmament.

It was at the Peace News office at 5 Caledonian Road, London (above Housmans Bookshop) that the CND [peace symbol] was adopted.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament [CND] is an anti-nuclear organization that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, and for international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It opposes military action that may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and the building of nuclear power stations in the UK.

CND was formed in 1957 and since that time has periodically been at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK. It claims to be Europe's largest single-issue peace campaign. Since 1958, it has organised the Aldermaston March, which is held over the Easter weekend from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Establishment near Aldermaston.

[source: wikipedia]

waters trademark

goldfish icon for a shirt brand in the ninetees:-)

Picasso Portrait Fetches $52 Million

LONDON — Pablo Picasso’s “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto,” a work from the painter’s Blue Period, has sold for nearly 35 million pounds [$52 million] at a London auction.

The winning bid of 34,761,250 pounds, from an anonymous bidder at an auction at Christie’s Wednesday night, was in the middle of the estimated sale price of 30 million pounds to 40 million pounds, the auctioneer said.

One of Claude Monet’s famous “Water Lilies” paintings — “Nympheas,” a work from 1906 — failed to sell. It had been expected to fetch up to 40 million pounds. read more...

[article by: Scott Reyburn - June 23, 2010]

kuya kim

a quick caricature of the king of trivia kuya kim atienza, an exercise to polish some of my strokes which i feel still needs a lot of improvement. never give up, we'll catch up:-)

madam linchu

pokey tuzzles

old madonna sketch

closing credits

i found another nostalgic old video from toolboxole which is reminiscence of my old university days when digital wasn't around that much for every ones convenience. this should be a cool post for this blog. the caricatures were all if not all the staff involved in the making of kwentong basura.

have fun=)

kwentong basura

here's an amateur animation [vcr to digital transfer] depicting a story about waste management. our university course project that involves the complete section of advertising class 1992 [ust - university of sto. tomas]. the pre-production, brainstorming, story gathering, illustrations, animation, post-production and an array of other stuff took six months to finish. what's so remarkable about this is the process of illustrating each keyframe, handing it over to in-betweeners, then down to colorists who stroked each individual a4 sized papers with colored graphites. the pipeline was such, to ensure everythings on tape before the start of the next semester. close to fifty students were involved in producing this piece of art, taking out a good two months summer vacation for the entire crew. it was a very memorable experience for me and a great learning one at that. credits to my friend mel at toolboxole for the video upload=)

[wikipedia definition]

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics. Waste management is also carried out to recover resources from it. Waste management can involve solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances, with different methods and fields of expertise for each.

Waste management practices differ for developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential and industrial producers. Management for non-hazardous residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator.

goodbye to Cheche Lazaro

it's never the same again knowing that my weekend usually begins with the ProbeTv. now i need to think of an alternative. farewell Probe team, til we meet again:-(

PROBE signs off after 24 years on Philippine Television

The award-winning program that pioneered investigative journalism on Philippine television is bidding goodbye for now after almost a quarter of a century in investigating the top issues and personalities in the country.

Probe is going full circle as it celebrated its remarkable run, which began during the presidency of Corazon Aquino, with a two-part series about the ascent to presidency of Cory’s son, President-elect Benigno Aquino III.

In the two-part special, Cheche Lazaro featured life in the Malacañang Palace with a series of interviews with presidential offsprings Nini Quezon, Ilocos Norte Governor-elect Imee Marcos, and former Sen. Jun Magsaysay, former presidents Joseph Estrada and Fidel V. Ramos, and even Palace employees and servants who will bare the secrets of Malacañang.

On June 30, Cheche zeroed in on Sen. Noynoy Aquino’s march to the presidency beginning with the grueling 2010 election campaign to his inauguration, getting the inside story behind the issues in his candidacy and the transition to his administration straight from his campaign manager Butch Abad, incoming presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda, and the Aquino sisters.

Despite the exit of Probe Profiles, Lazaro said Probe Productions Inc. will continue churning up brave and quality projects and might return to television, while she will still be seen as anchor of “Media in Focus” on ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel.

Lazaro said, “for as long as Filipinos look at the nation with probing eyes and minds, the Probe legacy lives on.” read more...

[source: http://blog.probetv.com ]

Lorenzo Di Mauro

Here's one "fine artist" I discovered while surfing the net, now I'm a big fan=)

Lorenzo Di Mauro

Born in 1954 in Italy, Lorenzo begins drawing comics and illustrations.

In 1980 he gets his early publications included a short illustrated story: "SuperPipe". In 1981 he moves to Rome and joins the Illustrators Association, just born in Italy.

For a couple of years Lorenzo continues to produce comics and illustrations, including his first Pin Up paintings, also beginning his collaboration as freelance illustrator with Italian subsidiaries of the most important international advertising agencies. During the 1980s, the advertising market in Italy offers alluring opportunities of financial reward and professional recognition and soon his time is booked up by these publicity works, painting mostly realistic illustrations.

He also works in publishing, fashion and motion-picture industries. Among other things, Lorenzo collaborates with Peter Greenaway, creating an illustration for the movie "The Belly of an Architect" [1987].

During the 1990s, his rapport with advertising remains quite intense, even if Lorenzo is no longer having so much fun. He works also in multimedia and experiences the creation of a number of interactive CD ROM and Internet animations. Samples of these works are showed at: www.visualshop.it

In 2001, Lorenzo goes back to one of his first passions: the creation of Pin Up paintings. Digital paintings, that is, because at that point he has already replaced his brushes with the graphic tablet.

Lorenzo did begin learning the digital painting since the early 1990s, nevertheless continuing to use acrylic colors, brushes and airbrush as he always has done before. Only after finding the means and the proper manual skill to create with digital media almost all that he was used to do with the natural media, Lorenzo begins using them professionally.

Today, in fact, Lorenzo works mainly in digital, though he sometimes is still using the old tools for traditional illustrations and commissioned works.

Influences: I was always inspired by the masters of the Italian Renaissance and by those of the world Illustration as Norman Rockwell, Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, The Hildebrants and Hajime Sorayama.

Style: I like realistic style but also fantasy. I want to say that my realism is not quite to reproduce exactly the photo references. I love to create dreamy beauties with realistic rendering.

Check out his website: http://www.lorenzodimauro.com/

Steven Hagg Stahlberg

Steven Hagg Stahlberg, 47, born in Australia but raised in Sweden, worked for 10 years as a freelancing illustrator, most of that in Hong Kong, these last 12 years in computer graphics.

People often ask how or why I got started with cg. Computers have fascinated me since I was a kid. Not unusual today, but this was the 60's, in a very small town. I read about computers in science fiction. Creating things in a computer was one of my dreams. 1990 I bought a pc with AutoCad. read more...

Luis Royo

Luis Royo [born in Olalla, Teruel, 1954] is a Spanish artist, known for his sensual and dark paintings, its apocalyptic imagery, his fantasy worlds and mechanical life forms. It has also recently started doing sculptures of some of his most charismatic images.

He was born in Olalla, a small town in Teruel, Spain. He has produced paintings for his own books and exhibitions, and has also produced art for many different media: video games, music CD and novels covers, tarot cards ...

He is famous for his work collected in books published worldwide, for his illustrations and its secure contributions of original work, always in constant value growth.

Shortly after his birth, Royo's family moved to Zaragoza, where he first started school, his first memories are accompanied with drawing which plays an important role in his life.

His practical standpoint, acquired from his economically humble family, led him to study Technical Drawing for construction. He soon discovered that geometric forms did not satisfy him fully.

Later, he began to study painting, decoration and interior design at the Industrial School and the School of Applied Arts, and combined with different jobs in interior design and decoration studios in 1970 and 1971.

During this time he also combined his work with paint. Influenced by the student revolts of May 1968, he painted large format tiles with social issues and made exhibitions from 1972 to 1977.

The discovery of adult comics with the work of artists such as Enki Bilal and Moebius captive him in 1978 and started drawing comics for different fanzines and comics exhibiting at the Angoulême Comic Fair in 1980.

In 1979 he left his job as a furnish designer, despite already having a child, to devote himself entirely to comics. In 1981 and 1982 began to publish in journals such as 1984, “Comix Rambla Internacional”, and sometimes, in “El Vibora” and “Heavy Metal”.

[source: wikipedia]

Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo [born January 8, 1941] is a Peruvian-born American painter. He emigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model.

Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have graced the covers of dozens of science fiction paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling glossy calendars. Subjects of his paintings are typically gods, monsters, and well-muscled male and female barbarians engaged in battle. Some of his male figures were modeled by Vallejo himself, and many of his later female characters were modeled by his wife. His latest works still retain heavy fantasy elements, but lean more towards the erotic rather than pure fantasy themes.

Vallejo has been named as the artist guest of honor at Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention.

Vallejo commenced painting at the age of thirteen and had his first illustration job at the age of sixteen. After emigrating to the United States in 1964, he quickly garnered a fan following from his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan The Barbarian, Doc Savage and various other fantasy characters [often done for paperback fiction works featuring the characters]. This led to commissions for movie poster illustration, advertisement illustration, and artwork for various collectibles - including Franklin Mint paraphernalia, trading cards and sculpture. Along with Bell, Vallejo presents his artwork in an annual calendar and various books. Vallejo's work is often compared to the work of Frank Frazetta, not only because it is similar stylistically but also since Frazetta painted covers for paperbacks of some of the same characters.

Vallejo's preferred artistic medium is oil paint on board, and has previously used digital media to combine discrete images to form composite images. Preparatory works are pencil or ink sketches, which have been displayed in the book Sketchbook. He and Julie Bell have worked on collaborative artworks together, in which they sign the artwork "Boris and Julie" or "Julie and Boris".

Vallejo has created film posters for numerous fantasy and action productions, including Barbarella [1968], Knightriders [1981], Q [1982], and Barbarian Queen [1985]. He has also illustrated posters for comedies, notably National Lampoon's Vacation [1983], European Vacation [1985], and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters [2007], co-created with Bell.

[source: wikipedia]

Frank Frazetta

Frank Frazetta [February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010] was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media. He was the subject of a 2003 documentary.

Early life and career

Born Frank Frazzetta in Brooklyn, New York City, he removed one "z" from his last name early in his career to make his name seem less "clumsy". The only boy among four children, he spent much time with his grandmother, who began encouraging him in art when he was two years old. He recalled in 2010, a month before his death,

When I drew something, she would be the one to say it was wonderful and would give me a penny to keep going. Sometimes I had nothing left to draw on but toilet paper. As I got older, I started drawing some pretty wild things for my age. I remember the teachers were always mesmerized by what I was doing, so it was hard to learn anything from them. So I went to art school when I was a little kid, and even there the teachers were flipping out.

At age eight, Frazetta attended the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts, a small art school run by instructor Michael Falanga. "He didn't teach me anything, really," Frazetta said in 1994. "He'd come and see where I was working, and he might say, 'Very nice, very nice. But perhaps if you did this or that.' But that's about it. We never had any great conversations. He spoke very broken English. He kind of left you on your own. I learned more from my friends there."

In 1944, at age 15, Frazetta, who had "always had this urge to be doing comic books", began working in comics artist Bernard Baily's studio doing pencil clean-ups. His first comic-book work was inking the eight-page story "Snowman", penciled by John Giunta, in the one-shot Tally-Ho Comics [Dec. 1944], published by Swappers Quarterly and Almanac / Baily Publishing Company. It was not standard practice in comic books during this period to provide complete credits, so a comprehensive listing of Frazetta's work is difficult to ascertain. His next confirmed comics work are two signed penciled-and-inked pieces in Prize Comics' Treasure Comics #7 [July 1946]: the four-page "To William Penn founder of Philadelphia..." and the single page "Ahoy! Enemy Ship!", featuring his character Capt. Kidd Jr.

Frazetta was soon drawing comic books in many genres, including Westerns, fantasy, mystery, and historical drama. Some of his earliest work was in funny animal comics, which he signed as "Fritz". In the early 1950s, he worked for EC Comics, National Comics, (including the superhero feature "Shining Knight"), Avon Comics, and several other comic book companies. Much of his work in comic books was done in collaboration with friend Al Williamson and mentor Roy Krenkel.

Noticed because of his work on the Buck Rogers covers for Famous Funnies, Frazetta started working with Al Capp on Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner. Frazetta was also producing his own strip, Johnny Comet at this time, as well as assisting Dan Barry on the Flash Gordon daily strip. He married Massachusetts native Eleanor Kelly in New York City in November 1956. The two would have four children: Frank Jr., Billy, Holly and Heidi.

In 1961, after nine years with Capp, Frazetta returned to comic books. He also helped Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder on two or three stories of the bawdy parody strip Little Annie Fanny in Playboy magazine.

[source: wikipedia]

Michael Godard

American artist, known for his olive and martini themed paintings. His artwork reflects the worlds of gambling, drinking, sports, and an overall display of the ‘good life’. He has been labeled as the “Rock Star of the Art World”, and is considered by many one of America’s most prolific and popular painters.

[source: wikipedia]

Malcolm Farley

Internationally acclaimed artist Malcolm Farley is renowned for his visions of color and unique ability to capture the moment, the action, and the spirit of the event. In his distinctive painting style, Malcolm blends bold strokes and vibrant colors with the drama of some of the world's most memorable moments. read more...

jodie foster from the 80s

this sketch was drawn in 1986, can't remember the exact date. i'm still keeping the original, and funny how the 80s flew by just like that.