Great news, everyone!
DOKISSATEN MAID & BUTLER CAFÉ is also going to be in manga form! Stay tuned for 4koma, illustrations and comical chapters depicting the lives of our unique and lively cast once our website has launched!
For today’s teaser, here’s an illustration of our delinquent butlers, ICHIGO and SHIKI!
One more day to go! <3
(click for a better view)
Freelancing isn’t the best thing, often clients will hire you, frustrate you, confuse you, and then maybe fire you and sometimes the pay isn’t that good, but it isn’t the worst thing either. I love it for all the problems it has, and the better rewards it has, like doing something you love.
It’s been getting better for me.
Recently I joined Create.ph with friends, CSJ and Kasey and so far I’ve found a sort of spark again to draw more. I still have freelance projects, some projects in Create, but that feeling of despair and from the start, not having initiative to do anything is gone.
I feel like making more comics and illustrations is all I am saying.
I’m grateful for my current work (Copywriter/Graphic Artist hybrid for GMA) for the most part. While it’s not inspiring, or doesn’t involve illustration, comics, or conceptualizing anything related to my interests, it does give me a sense of security with the payroll and benefits, and my true passions (illustration, comics, storymaking etc) are protected from hell-bound clients. On the other hand, it leaves me only few precious hours for what I want to do, and to develop what I have, and it leaves me the feeling of lagging behind artists my age and younger (I’m looking at you Rob and Patrice).
I guess what I’m trying to say is that: I envy freelancers sometimes, but most of all I admire them, for being able to cope with the weightlessness that comes with the territory. It’s not fun and games and it’s not slacking off and I wish people who think otherwise will come to understand that.
Good luck, Rob. If it’s any encouragement at all, I admire your resolve and I’m sure many others feel the same.
And as a friend pointed out, “art” is at the heart of the earth.
<3
The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers. In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria”. It is a ride to the death. The seven loops or ‘inversions’ put the human body under such stress that it causes the brain to be starved of oxygen, as the heart simply cannot push blood against the enormous g-forces. Even if it kills you, it is designed to still be a fun death. An honourable thought, if rather macabre.
I’ll give it a try.
how much is it to die?
(via fancykosher)
Haven’t fired up GraphicsGale in a while, so it took a short while getting familiar with the tools again.
Anyway, here’s Reis a.k.a. stainedpaper, in pixel form.
Enjoy.
I wish I could look as awesome as my pixelated version! <3 <3 Thank you so much!
Pictures taken by Life Dawn, taken from Dr. Sketchy’s Manila facebook.
I had a lot of fun at the Dr. Sketchy event, featuring Lady S, Pole Academy Philippines, and a performance by Sipat Lawin.
For artists, Dr. Sketchy’s a great opportunity to get back to basics. For people like, it’s refreshing to chip at barriers. One thing’s for sure after this: an illustrator I am not, I’m keeping my day job!
I can’t miss another Dr. Sketchy’s session, I just can’t 8|
