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.

 

Some character sketches from last year. Haven't been posting in a while. Been really busy with a lot of stuff lately. A great way to start the new year.

Wrapping up 2011

 

2011 was a very challenging year for me. A lot of things happened that forced me somewhat out of my comfort zone. Somehow I think I responded to the challenge positively and sometimes a bit negatively. But I never bitched about it and somehow that made me proud. I handled things the way a real man should!

Fast forward today and I'm quite content at where I stand now. And if ever I have a time machine, I won't change a thing. And if ever alternate timelines exist, I won't wonder what happened to all those other timelines.

And at that note, I bit farewell to you 2011. We had a good run and though you always managed to get a jump at me and kick me in the ass, we had fun.

Cheers to you 2011! You made me change my perspective to a lot of things!

Hello to you 2012!

Happy Holidays!

Some of the things I got this December. I think I got mostly what was on my imaginary lists and some more.
I got most of the things here as gifts from family and friends. A great addition to my ever growing mini-Library of sorts.

Now, the biggest surprise here is the whole set of A Song of Ice and Fire. I wasn't really expecting to receive this. And the Annotated Brothers Grimm is really quite fancy too. Just look at that cover.
Now if only I could find the time to actually read through all this.

Anyway, Happy Holidays folks. I hope you had a lovely holiday as much as I did.
Heres to 2012!
Cheers!

Technoteapot

Almost a month ago, we got invited to a goth/steampunk-inspired tea party hosted by Spidersilk Productions. Sensing an opportunity to promote ourselves, we gave it a go. It was held December 8-10 at LRI Design Plaza. The place was really good, quite fancy, I should say. The perfect place for those artsy people who want an intimate setting to their galleries.

Here are some of the photos from the event. To see more just click here.

This is the first art exhibit, in which we got invited to participate. It actually felt nice that we are somehow getting recognized, slowly but surely, I guess. Here's hoping that we get to participate to more art exhibit in the future. In the mean time, here is the piece I made just for the event.

It was supposed to be somewhat a steampunk-inspired Astroboy fanart, but people didn't recognize it and some actually thought it was more like a lone-ranger-inspired piece. So, yea I failed there.

I actually thought about posting images of the progress of how I made this piece, but nobody actually read this blog anyway, so meh. Maybe some other time. When I actually have people that really follows this blog.