East of Here and West of There

As part of my job as an art director for a TV station with cable channels offered abroad, I needed to come up with 3 promo plugs to commemorate US Veterans Day on November 11. One of the plugs used brush pen illustrations I made. I enjoyed drawing these images but the originals are a bit small - chosen for expediency's sake, I would have preferred a larger format - and I used a rather large brush pen. Linework was traditionally sketched, scanned then colored in Photoshop. "Portraits" will air on GMA International to commemorate US Veterans' Day on November 11.

#Artdirection, #illustration, #storyboards and #motiondesign. Here's my ‪#‎Youtube‬ channel . Do drop by and check out the videos. Thanks!

Heneral Douglas MacArthur; Marker illustration with digital post. ‪#‎ illustration‬ ‪#‎ ww2‬

Mutya ng Pasig. Nasaan Ka, Irog. The UP Hymn. The CCP Main Theater. The UP College of Music. Marker ‪#‎ illustration‬ with digital coloring

 ‪Digital illustration; #‎Batman‬ ‪#‎illustration‬

"God created Arrakis to train the faithful."from The Wisdom of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan Digital illustration #illustration #Dune

Illustration and design by myself with animation by GMA Post and Audrey Maralag.

Opening billboard illustration and motion design storyboard for a local animated series hailed as the first, local animated anthology series. Ang Mananalaysay (The Storyteller) by Jay Javier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .

Shaman figure designed by myself for Alamat, the first local animated anthology series on GMA this July, 2015. Ang Mananalaysay (The Storyteller) by Jay Javier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .

J.R.R. Tolkien quote for my Readit-2-Wear series

J.R.R. Tolkien quote for my Readit-2-Wear series

J.R.R. Tolkien quote for my Readit-2-Wear series

iHop's new logo has the same design direction I took when I designed Spoofs Ltd's logo. Smiles do make things better :)

Based on Ursula Le Guin's fantastic Earthsea Trilogy. Ged the Archmage and a dragon. Coreldraw Vector illustration. #illustration #Earthsea #FantasyArt  - See more at: http://www.elfwood.com/u/jayjay/image/904f0050-248e-11e4-bedb-25e2199a1146/earthsea-talking-with-dragons#sthash.6OW4BYtC.dpuf

The storyboard for the teaser for a local, animated anthology on GMA. # alamat   # animation   # storyboard   # GMANetwork

Battle of Hue City. Production artwork for a movie I was commissioned to work on. "Under Heavy Fire" aka "Going Back" starred Casper Van Dien and was directed by Sidney J. Furie, the same director of the Iron Eagle film series. The piece was used to help the computer graphics guys from Germany in making a locale shot here in my country into a riverside quay in Vietnam during the battle of Hue. Most of the work made for the production were storyboards and concept drawings. Airbrushed acrylics on board; 2001 Here are emore production sketches:  

Kal and Juan of GMA News TV's Ugaling Wagi. I designed these two over glasses of iced coffee, two or three Banh mi sandwiches, Jonas' beef pares ( with a side order of kikiam,) Jolli spaghetti, some bags of chicharon, nachos with cheese and a Burger Project monstrosity I mashed up. Of course, all these were eaten in a span of a week or two...

Tuesday is T-Rex Day. ‪#‎ PanayDrawingLang‬

Composite image using toys

Background art for a memorial thank you card; digital; 2015

A portrait I made for my wife's friend who was leaving the CCP. The surrounding images are scans of photographs hurriedly treated in Photoshop because I was working on a very tight schedule. I wanted to concentrate on the marker drawing of her face. Scanned ink drawings with digital coloring and compositing. 2015

My wife and I designed and produced some stuff for our friends' wedding. I just did the designs -- including hand drawn designs on each envelope and a papercraft invite, bookmarkers and signs -- while my wife did most of the heavy work including some lovely paper airplane curtains :P