End of summer

Just some sketch dump of what I've done with some of my free time over the summer. I'm trying to figure out a style that can work for me while sketching. Something fast but still captures some of the details. Oh and you may notice that its mostly sketches of women, well that's because drawing women is really my long term frustrations until today. So I make it a point to draw women more so I can improve on the female figure.

I also took a much needed vacation here and there just to relax before I lock down on work and projects.

Oh and yea I'll take this time to plug this magazine too:

A magazine project of the big guns; Paolo Chikiamco and Budjette Tan.

Kwentillion will be the country's first publication dedicated to young adult literature and media, featuring young adult-themed comics and fiction by Filipino creators. Eventually intended for release every two months, the black and white magazine--with an eight-page colored spread every issue--will feature comics and fiction that embrace the themes of the YA genre, as well as articles which tackle YA book releases and issues relevant to the YA fan community.

And yours truly is featured here on their Filipinos to Follow article.  I'm really hoping this magazine picks up. It will be a big help to the comic industry here and not to mention artists waiting for that big break. So yea lets support this baby until it can grow to something big and give back support to the community. Cheers to you Pao!
Kwentillion facebook page

So now that the summer is over, buckle up, its going to be a looong ride of late night pages drawings until November.

Cheers!

~koi

And it's out! The first game I get to be involved with is finally out on the app store. Fellas, if you're a fan of casual games like farmville and stuff check it out. Zoox for iPad

The game is available for iPad and its free for download. It's still not as awesome as I hoped it would be and there are a lot of inconsistencies on the 2d part; which by the way are the stuff that I was mostly involved in, but overall it looks good.

Its actually not my usual style with all the pastel colors and light mood, but it was fun making some of the concepts for this. At the moment I'm still struggling with style issues here and there and can't really start on this next project that I've been putting off for weeks now. Time frame for the said project is out of whack now. Will try to start on it soon and try to get some pages done. Anyway, will try and post some more stuff soon! See ya guys!

Cheers!

Marco's Delivery Service

Hey fellas, the comic book I released back in 2009 was finally released in amazon. For those who has kindle or kindle fire, check it out!
Marco’s Delivery Service

 It will be available on Apple iTunes iBookstore and Barnes & Noble’s website in a couple of weeks.

Thanks to Flipreads for taking an interest in digitally publishing my comic www.flipreads.com
Special thanks to Paolo Chikiamco for helping me out in this www.rocketkapre.com/

It has been a really busy month for me. I've been busy with a lot of stuff and been dealing with some issues. But nothing that I can't handle. Will update this blog soon!

Cheers!
~Koi

So, a friend asked me to post my process on how I usually go around doing my artworks.

 

I always start with sketches. And I'm most comfortable sketching from a sketchpad then scanning it.

Then I start inking the piece using SAI.

I usually start with the most complicating part first often switching back and forth to other parts of the piece.

 

Then adding details bit by bit. Inking usually takes about 2 to 5 hours. Depending on my laziness level and how complicated the piece is. This particular piece though took 3 days because I got lazy and distracted most of the time. Plus I think I only worked on this an hour a day. So that is still 3 hours all in all.

 

Then spot blacks. And finally I start with the coloring process. Again starting off from the complicated parts first.

I usually switch from the subject to the background while coloring. Changing most of the colors along the way. And changing colors for the background before settling with the color I'm most comfortable with.

And finally, finishing things up in photoshop. Adding some details and some effects.

And that's it! Hope you guys enjoyed seeing through my process of doing artworks. It's somewhat a tedious process, but it's something that I'm most comfortable with.

Cheers!

 

Kapre in space character study for a project.
Kinda excited for this. Paolo; our writer, came up with awesome races. And I'm excited to work with artists that I know personally and trust will deliver the goods.

 

Sketch dump. Slowly filling up my pocket sized sketch pad. Most of the time, I like to sit down somewhere at a shop and just sketch the folks at the area. That's why I liked this pocket sketch pad. I can take it anywhere and guerrilla sketch anytime I want to.

Hongkong express

I recently went to Hongkong. The place was, in my opinion, awesome. I'm a big sucker for the old buildings and crumbling architectures, and Hongkong has lots of it. According to the local that I got to chat with, some of the structures there are already 40 years old and still inhabited by the locals.

More photos here

I wanted to upload more but, dang, I already reached the limit for flickr.