(at last)HERE IT IS!

+ i've decided to make a summer schedule just so i could organize my plans for this vacation, because god i wasted my summer last year! i spent more than a month for a stupid summer job in that stupid grocery learning nothing but gift-wrapping, photocopying and punching keys in the check out station.

word of advice for those planning to get a summer job: DON'T.

i think it's better if summer vacations are spent...well, as a break from work! there are so many places to go to, and so much to learn. god, i should've just had pottery lessons, or animation lessons(again)...or yoga maybe.

This summer, i plan to make up for lost time...things i should've done last year. I want to learn illustrator and, of course, autocadd....maybe a few excursions with friends, and a lot more with ai...(*hee)

+ I wish i could post new pictures but since i lost the family cam last feb, i'm gonna have to post old ones for awhile. *fffffhhhhhh* i won't forget that day..ever. i mean, WHY?? why me?? *screams* kidding.

+ on a brighter note...YAY! Ayo finally decided to have his hair cut! We took our chances at the Aura Salon in katipunan yesterday. At first i was a little worried about his cut..thinking that the layers might look a little too gay for him because his hair is so much longer than mine... well, it turned out surprisingly great! awwww so cute! *hugs for my handsome baby!* (sorry guys ^^*) We stopped at Starbucks to have my coffee and his tea (ahh always a pleasure). Then we went to this CD place to get pc games coz he needed sound effects for his movie projects. But we had to head home right away coz my tummy is not cooperating (again). I'm sorry, i'm not potty trained. HAHAHAHA! or maybe it's just the four glasses of Nesvita i had that day. anyways, we spent the rest of the afternoon on the couch, our couch (the best part of the day). Before he left, i gave him some coloring materials he might need for his summer workshop..also, a book of japanese illustrations (mostly chibi) my mom got for me when i was a kid. I'm so happy he's taking art lessons. I think its great that he's going back to the basics so he could practice more on the things he missed because of his "premature growth" in the visual arts. When he develops his skills, I'm sure there's so much more he could do with graphic animation. You guys should see his works. I mean, they're pretty good for someone who has very little practice in the basics of visual art. I'm so excited for him!! You go ayo-boy!!!

Griffin and Sabine: Inspiration

I just gave Miki the Griffin and Sabine Trilogy set I bought her! She was so happy about it and that made me very very happy as well! We read a few pages of the first book and even I was wowed by the creativiy of the book. I'm not going to spoil it for anyone but if you have extra dough (alot of dough, though) or ain't ashamed to shell out moohlah for books, get this one. Griffin and Sabine Trilogy by Nick Bantock. You will definitely not regret buying it. Pretty nice illustrations, concept and story. Strange but still pretty easy to understand. The interior is quite nice. You'll get what I mean when you get one(actually, 3 coz its a trilogy)!

Anyway, going home after I read some of the G&S book, I remembered what Avid was telling me about my art (Film and Animation). We had a long talk about my approach in maing my films. He said I should concentrate in making the film and nothing else. No credit hoarding. No showing of. No BS. Just plain art. I should let the art speak for itself in the sense that when people see it, they'll exclaim "Ah, it's an Ayo", without even reading the credits or whatever. So I guess I got inspired not only by Avid but also by Nick Bantock. I should develop my art in my own style and enrich it as I go along: gone are the days when Films are just products/outlets for my megalomania.

Oh well, inspired by Avid and Bantock, I'm now sketching my newest animated/live action film. I'll do the cartoons this summer (in between my art classes with Avid and my Tuesdays and Thursdays with Ty) and culminate the project with the live action stuff in June. Its going to be entitled "Ayo's Ketches". Pretty cheesy title, huh? Note that Ketches are strange beings that live in a world that can only be entered through a complex drawing of a door in a piece of paper. Strange concept but maybe this would foster my art. Don't worry, I'll keep the promise I made to Mc about making my own Advent Children just before I graduate! (hearty laugh!)

No pics for you guys tonight but maybe in a week, after this school thing blows over! hardy harhar!

Take care!

Guess who's bored!

well, I managed to get my files into the flashdisk to post here in the blog! So here's a couple of miki's photoshop work. And the thing that really surprised me when she first showed me her work was that she told me she didn't know how to use layers! So these digiart you see here is all done in ONE LAYER! Scary concept but it turned out WUNDERBAR! So I guess, whatever works right? Well, Miki's great!

I look very 'mo in the pic; guardiem!















Self Portrait ala Digital?! harharhar!




















Then ofcourse I got bored while studying for my SA (which i passed... well, i think!) so i just watched some sentai in youtube.com when i came across the ultraman dyna theme! I loved that show and it rekindled the ultraman in me so i did this freaky composite here!

I know, freaky huh? Well, sometimes you just gotta do the freaky stuff so you know exactly where you are! hm, word of wisdom from a friend of mine!

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! We're gonna be posting some more of our stuff in a few days so just keep checking up our newborn blog, ok?

Toodles!