East of Here and West of There

Here's my Art Gap Caricature contest entry -- presenting Mr. Jimmy Duavit! The lovely and super talented tattoo diva Mia Claravall-Reyes drops by the exhibit. I'm so honored and I scream for ten minutes:) Thanks for the support, Mia! Some friends at the office celebrated 5 years of working for GMA this month and they were honored with a video, a program and of course a big, fat, juicy bonus! Congratulations!   I won 3rd place in the caricature contest! Leo (the handsome devil on my right) won second and Carol won the grand prize. Mr. Duavit and Mr. Gozon hand us our awards -- plaques and envelopes with fresh, crisp moolah:)   Here's the mysterious and camera-shy Leo with his pretty and talented fiance Candy. Leo's also an art director and Candy's a writer. This award-winning team recently joined our department and has promised to feed us pizza often. Much to the delight of Mia.

I recently joined an on-the-spot caricature contest at my office. A few days before the contest proper, all the contestants drew names of the people they'll be making caricatures of and I drew Mr. Jimmy Duavit's name. Mr Duavit is GMA Network's Executive Vice President and COO. He's very pleasant to work with (there were quite a few times I was able to present my storyboards to him personally), has a deep baritone voice and smokes a lot. I decided to emphasize his brows and grin together with his ever present cigarette. The big hurdle was that I've never really tried my hand in making caricatures. Portraits were a bit easy but demanded time and caricatures demanded emphasizing something other than just likeness. Plus the contest was under a time limit of 1 hour. So I opted to rely on my pens and markers. Suffice it to say I was nervous during the contest and just set my mind to having fun. Surprisingly, I finished early at around fifteen minutes from the start of...