East of Here and West of There

"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.

Poster illustration and design with my wife for the CCP's Virgin Labfest's Marawi Musicale

Filipino National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin. Ballpen and marker [portrait. Nicomedes "Nick" Márquez Joaquín (May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004) was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquín was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature. He has been considered one of the most important Filipino writers, along with José Rizal and Claro M. Recto. Unlike Rizal and Recto whose masterpieces were written in Spanish, Joaquin's major works, despite being a native Spanish speaker, were written in English.

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.

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

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

The M1 Abrams is an American third-generation main battle tank named after General Creighton Abrams who commanded the 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division in World War 2. The battalion motto is "Courage Conquers."

Evelio Javier was a Filipino lawyer, civil servant, politician, and an opposition leader during the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos.  Javier ran for governor of Antique and won in 1971 by one of the largest margins in history, making him, at the age of 28, the Philippines' youngest governor. Javier was assassinated in the closing days of Ferdinand Marcos's presidency. A staunch supporter of then-presidential candidate Corazon Aquino, he was shot on February 11, 1986 four days after the Snap Elections of 1986 were held but while the counting was continuing. The assassination of Evelio Javier helped lead to Marcos's fall from power during the People Power Revolution.   On the day of the funeral and burial to his final resting place at his hometown of San Jose de Buenavista, Antique, thousands of mourning people in Antique followed his funeral procession to the cemetery wearing yellow shirts and tying yellow bands to their wrists. They played his fav...

"In World War II, Marine Corps Major Greg 'Pappy' Boyington commanded a squadron of fighter pilots. They were a collection of misfits and screwballs who became the terrors of the South Pacific. They were known as the Black Sheep." The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Corsairs were flown by the "Black Sheep" Squadron (VMF-214, led by Marine Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington) in an area of the Solomon Islands called "The Slot". Boyington was credited with 22 kills in F4Us (of 28 total, including six in an AVG P-40, although his score with the AVG has been disputed). Other noted Corsair pilots of the period included VMF-124's Kenneth Walsh, James E. Swett, and Archie Donohue, VMF-215's Robert M. Hanson and Don Aldrich, and VF-17's Tommy Blackburn, Roger Hedrick, and Ira Kepford. Nightfighter versions equipped Navy and Marine ...

On 25 January 2015, three platoons of the elite SAF police squad ventured into the guerrilla enclave of Tukanalipao, Mindanao, Philippines, with the goal of detaining high-ranking, Jemaah Islamiyah-affiliated, improvised-explosive-device experts Zulkifli Abdhir and Basit Usman. The SAF troops were then ambushed by a group of MILF militants, suffering heavy casualties. Running out of ammunition, a dozen of surviving policemen attempted to withdraw. At the same time, rebels belonging to BIFF gathered from nearby villages, immediately engaging the retreating law enforcement agents. The militants overpowered the remaining policemen, later killing the wounded and firing multiple bullets into the corpses of the slain. A total of 44 SAF officers were killed, while rebel casualties amounted to at least 5 killed and 10 wounded. Fiat justitia ruat caelum is a Latin legal phrase, meaning "Let justice be done though the heavens fall." The maxim signif...