One of the things I learned is that Filipinos don’t like caricatures. Caricatures usually mean that a part of your face would be exaggerated and you would look funny. Most Filipino caricatures would often be a cartoon version of the person – simple lines, shadows and less exaggerations. That’s what I did for this...
I decided to do a series – inspired by the kind of cabinet President Duterte formed before he formally began his presidency. In a way, I needed reason to do more caricatures to develop my own style. For now, this will be done via pen and ink. Perhaps after a few months I will start coloring my caricatures images...
They say practise makes perfect. I’m not sure about the ‘perfect’ part because I know I can do better. What I do know is that my style is changing and yes, indeed, it is improving. All these were published in ManilaSpeak.
Badass. That’s what Justice Secretary Leila de Lima is projecting now. Not just in TV adverts but in the cases that she’s handling right now. Everyone thought she’d be President Noynoy Aquino’s lapdog – until she started to handle high profile plunder cases involving politicians. Only time can tell if that image is enough...
These are interesting times. Election brings out the best and the worst in politicians. They always offer their best foot forward and at the mean time, risk making a fool of themselves during the campaign period by singing and dancing to the cheering [paid] crowd. I guess in hope that the crowd will remember them more...
All of these cartoons and caricatures were featured in ManilaSpeak. Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV is the senator responsible for the relentless “persecution” of the Binays in media. He and a fellow senator exposed one corrupt deal after another. This is one of those amusing stories. Both the past Manila mayor [Alfredo...
Last Saturday, John Nash died. Russell Crowe portrayed him in the movie, “Beautiful Mind”. I saw the movie a long time ago and I remember how his story moved me. So, I decided to do a caricature as a tribute. I was able to borrow a friend’s Pilot Justus 95, with a spencerian modification done by Mottishaw. I was so...
That’s the name of my new weekly column at ManilaSpeak. It’s a challenge because all these caricatures will be done the old fashioned way – meaning drawn and inked by hand, scanned, colored then posted. So far I am loving it. My first feature was the Senator Grace Poe. Since I started with a presidentiable, I decided to...
Perhaps we’d be talking about the latest showbiz gossip. Sometimes politicians are their own reality show – specially when they commit mistakes and don’t own up to it. Here are two illustrations I’ve done on the latest issues in the news today. The Mayor of Makati, who happens to be the Vice President’s son,...
I love my Pilot Parallel Pen – it can be quite expressive with its lines. As you can see here – the lines range from .5mm to 6mm. In fact it looked like I used a brush in doing these 2-minute sketches. This was done at the Navotas Fishing Port. It was one of those small fishing boats. These two were the Urban...
“The powers of a (Philippine) President are overwhelming. He commands an army and a national police. He controls the biggest chunk of government resources (budget and manpower). ” Given this, it makes you wonder why our President choses to clip the Supreme Court’s powers. Is it greed or is he just getting even? This is...
I was able to dig up some animation backgrounds that I coloured back in 2009 for a projected under the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) under the Office of the President. These beautiful places were drawn and inked by Jerald Dorado. I coloured them digitally using Photoshop. The animation...
This time I didn’t color over a dirty sketch. I actually ‘cleaned’ it up, closed the lines and tried to remember how I was taught to do the lines. This is the basic sketch. This is the “cleaned up” dirty sketch. I’m still experimenting on coloring. However I did like how this turned out. I will try to document how I did...
A mother died today. I couldn’t call her Auntie or Tita. She was my best friend’s mother and mentor. In a way she was my mother too. When I was in high school, I’d often hang out at my friends’ house before going home. I’d do my homework and projects at their place. If I could only not go home, I’d do that. My father...
“Practise, practise, practise! ” As sensei Gilbert would say. Caricaturization is more than just an exaggeration of features – I believe it is an art form. It is something I never took seriously before, but now I can see its potential, after seeing how technology has taken it into another level. For me, one of the...
