On the drawing table: Whatsit

This is an illustration for a poster of Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.

Doing it the old fashioned way. Those are Tombo dual brush pens. Too bad I can't get them here anymore. Here's the thumbnail rough I drew on my sketchpad.

Here's my favorite version of the cover as illustrated by Leo and Dianne Dillon.

I just heard that Mr. Dillon passed away May 26, 2012. Sad, sad loss. R.I.P. Mr. Dillon.

Edith Tiempo

Filipino National Artist for Literature Edith Tiempo. Ballpen and markers. Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011), poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

Mga Ibong Mandaragit Full Art

Cover Illustration for Amado Hernandez' Mga Ibong Mandaragit ( Birds of Prey) Digital Illustration; 2011

NAPOLEON ABUEVA

"Mang Billy" Filipino National Artist for Sculpture Napoleon Abueva. Brush and ink portrait. Napoleon Abueva (January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, was a Filipino artist. He was a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He was also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He was awarded National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.

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