I'm not dead...I swear to god

Hola Amigos and Amigas!

How's everyone doing out in the blogosphere! I'm very much alive here and got some stuff in the works at the moment. I just want to say that I apologize for the long absence...come to think of it the longest yet! Thank you to all those who did check back from time to time and I'll do my bestest to get this thing going again!

Today I wanted to share some sketches I did and we'll start from there! Let's stir some shit up!

SMILE IT UP!

m00k!

My mornin java

Hola amigos and amigas!

Did some more morning sketches before work again, one being outta the norm from me. One being partly inspired by my buddy Ed and work and one just to have fun with colors. The other was all about contrast and stuff. Anywhoo, I'll try and post more. Heh got three in this month!

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ye ole m00k!

Yo....Petey Parker, get a load of me

Hola everyone!

I hope everyone had a Happy Easter and for those who don't celebrate it, I hope you had an awesome sunday and overall weekend. So, I've been working on some good ole' redesign stuff for my personal sanity, and I thought Doc Ock would be awesome to do..so here he is. Hope everyone digs it! Next...gotta hit up some DC universe stuff up in here soon.

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ye ole'm00k!

A sketchy morning

How's everyone doing? So as you know I've been busy with work and such. Been trying to work on personal stuff here and there and been going nuts'o cuz I haven't posted here for awhile. Anywhoo, let's get to it eh? So I started doing warm up drawings in the morning before work, just to get loose. I found these neat photoshop brushes here at work and started to play. Sooooo I tried to emulate my process with brown paper on to the digital side. This is what came out of it.

Wells everyone have a good day and I'll post very soon peeps!!!

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ye ole m00k!

kung fu grippin this brown sketchy post

Hola amigos and amigas!

How's everyone doing out there? Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and has a wonderful week ahead. So it's been awhile since my last post. Had bit of a computer problem, My macbook pro I had since college finally went kaput on me, sad times indeed. But got myself a new laptop...not a mac, but a pc....*gasp* Decided to get one just to save a few pennies. Important thing is that I can post some stuff. sooooo here we go,

Tonight I'll be posting some random stuff i did in my new spiffy brown sketch paper that I love to draw on. This Sketch pad is awesome cuz of the irregular size of 9 x 18. Lovely lovely size to work on. I couldn't scan these suckers account of being to big, so I took some pics off of me phone. Anywhoo, stuff I've been sketchin on the side to keep myself fresh from the stuff at the studio. Thank you to everyone that comes back to the ville and thank you to the new followers that decided to give me a shot. I'll come and visit all your blogs very soon.

until then mah peeps!

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m00k!

Going Kiwi on animation paper y'all!

Hola amigos and amigas!

How's everyone doing? I hope everyone is having a kewl weekend! So the other day at six point, my new pals trevor spencer, andrea fernandez and myself had a conversation about art, and how it's hard to find a sketchbook that has that "right" feel when drawing on it. Trevor mentioned that he usually draws on loose sheets of paper, especially animation paper. I mentioned to him I never drew on that kind of paper before, "he's all you never did? You gotta try it! " So the cool guy that Trevor is, went to get some out of his bag and gave me some. I was excited as hell and after work, I sat at my desk and drew....and man....did it feel good! Really good! So I'm sharing what I sketched that night.

Other things I'm sharing is the cool piccy of a smile it up card, taken in the kiwi country New Zealand by the awesome jez tuya. Thanks A lot man that's really cool pic! where is it at exactly? I love the floating globe there lol. Other things is my new profile piccy and a sketch of a dude name dave, and his little mean dog name killer. Well that's it from here...oh I bought some envelopes for the sketchcards, so hold tight homies! Oh and a BIG BIG thank you for all of you who started and continue to follow the blog. Thank you very much. OH OH annnd I got my my blog linked on the awesome awesome skottie young's blog!!!! That made my day, shoot the whole year!!! Thanks Skottie! I've been a fan since way back in the day.

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ye ole m00k!

Happy Holidays/ New Year and all that good stuff....hey, better late then never.....right?

Hola My Dear Amigos and Amigas!

First posty of the year, and I wanna wish all of us a fantastic year and peace on earth! Now let's get into my lame excuses of not posting lol. well, it's like this........there is none! I've been lazy! lol Now now, don't get me wrong. After work at the studio, I do draw. But finding the time to scan and post is tough. But...I'm gonna try and be a good blogger citizen and find that time.

Anyhwoo! how are all of you? I hope everything is well with you guys. For this m00k, everything has been keen for this lima bean. Since working at six point, it's been a blast. Just surrounded by so much talent is just incredible, and getting to be challenged and pushing my skills everyday is making me more and more hungry to learn and grow as much as I can while I'm there.

Well enough of my talk let's get down to the posty. I am happy to announce to you guys that some of the cards have made it to there new homes =) Thanks to Gabby, George and Patrick for taking the pictures in Florida, London, and Germany. The next batch of cards are coming to the next winners as soon as I get envelopes. I did five more cards way back in November and finally got to share it with you. TJ, Chenny and my deviantart friend in Turkey are getting cards. Chenny and TJ just hold on tight guys.

Finally some random sketchys in my new sketchbook.......Oh and ROCKETBABY, I am still working on. I'll post somemore stuff in the near future. well that's it from me

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ye ole m00k

If I had a graphic novel, this is what the cover would look like. Ladies and Germs, I present..ROCKETBABY

It would look like this!!!!! lol

Hola Amigos and Amigas!

How's' everyone doing out there? Me? Well......I would like to say *ahem* I finally got a job in the animation biznaz! YESSIREEE!!!! I am a character layout artist at Six Point Harness Animation Studios in the Heart of Hollywood! Thanks to my good friend Ivan for getting my work to one of the producers there. I've been working There since last monday. I get to work with one cool cat Director in Joel Trussell, and an awesome crew. So yeah the journey continues for this mook here =)

Anywhoo, let's post some stuff now! So, before I got the job at Six Point, I was working on some ideas on my graphic novels. One being ROCKETBABY. A story that has, punk music!, ufo's!, shadow governments!, extraterrestrial beings! love! and some ford edsals! yep...edsals, all mixed up together. I'll give you a run down of each character in future post. but today I share a mock cover. Let me know what you think. The colors I found out are a little different from my mac to pc, it sucks but what can i do eh?

Oh and I sent the cards to the winners. I have also decided to give some cards to three lucky ladies. since the last raffle it was all dudes and I thought it would be nice to give to the ladies as well. Those ladies are, TJ Lubrano, Gabby Zapata and Chenny Curtis.

Well That's it for now

Smile it up!

m00k!

Smile it up sketchcards comin at'cha!!!!!

Hola Amigos and Amigas!

So here are the sketchcards that i'm gonna send out soon to the lucky raffle weeners! I was having a blast last night drawing them. I hope you guys like em! Let me know what you guys think of them

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ye ole m00k!

Sketchy post Tuesday ay ay ay!!!!!!

Hola Dear Amigos and Amigas!!!

whaddup? It's been a hot minute hasn't it? Early morning posting. My apologies for the brief pause my friends =) Hope Everyone had a nice weekend and Halloween. First and foremost, the winners of the sketchcards. They will come my friends. I promise you, you may hate me until they come heh =) I have only three out of the five that responded to the emails I've sent out. So I'll send out to the other two again. If I don't get a response outta either of them, I'm afraid I'll will have to pick other mookies out of the hat.

Now for the sketchy post, just some stuff I've been sketching around here and there from the past few months. These made the cut. One in particular is a sketch of me when I was a boy in the eighties. My twin and I loved legos. *ahem* Let me iterate that again. We LOOOOOOOOOOVE LEGOS!!!!!....HOLLLLY STUFF YES WE DO! LOL! Other than drawing all the time, we loved creating stuff with the little plastic pieces. we'd make stuff and name each of our lego peeps, and have stories and places to go. awesome memories I must say.

Anywhoo, yes...that's me with the bowl cut. what of it huh? I had my lego all in a blanket from korean air, that I got when we went to the philippines when we were young, and I would put the blanket with legos in a cardboard box that I would lug around the house lol Anyhow one of the personal projects i'm working on is my autobiography comic that i want to do. You say...isn't that kinda too much? a litte bigheaded drawing about yourself? I would say no. If you have something to say and had a life like me and my bro, why not? I look up to a lot of autobio comic artist, such as jeffery brown, craig thompson, and the likes. And just the intimacy they have to share their life just speaks to me, and still does. I look at art as not only sharing cool drawings and stuff, but to share it like a second voice...an opinion that you believe in. So yeah, the sketch is one of the first I did. I'm working on the look of the book, and I hope to share more in the future.

Other sketchys are studies of people on the blog the sartorialist. I love fashion. I won't go as far to say I'm a fashionista or anything lol...well my bro is, but I like styles. It's another creative outlet that I enjoy looking at and get inspired, whatelse.....tree studies and blah blah blah....I gotta post lol

it's good to blog again and i'll be rejoining the blogosphere to blog it up like the best of them. y'all have fun out there ya hear!

SMILE IT UP!

ye ole m00k!

Oh and I have yet another personal project that I will hopefully share soon!

1ST ANNUAL SMILE IT UP RAFFLE! ANNND THE WINNERS ARE................

LEYPAT

ALBERTO ABRIL

MRWHITESHADE

MONSTERTREE

JEZ TUYA

congratulations ya mooks!!!! For the rest of you, do not fret. i will do another raffle in about a month or so, or when i send out the last of the sketchcards =)

or....if you just want to trade i don't mind. I know a couple of you guys mentioned that. But for now...I want to give! yaaaaaay!

SMILE IT UP!

ye ole m00k!

oh and for the winners...just email me, or i'll email. either way lol

Oh Holland! :: SMILE IT UP RAFFLE!

Hola Amigos and Amigas!

So....The card made it, and found it's new home in Holland! WooHoo! Such a joy when My new buddy Arjan sent me some piccys of the little guy. Honestly speaking I almost teared up in joy, finally seeing it. Hahaha it's like my kid and I sent him off! The neat thing about this was that Arjan apologized that he didn't take the pic at the famous mills of Kinderdijk, instead at a mill by his home where he got married at! Personally I think that that story is wonderful and more personal. Anywhoo I'm glad you like the sketchcard man, and thank you thank you thank you for being the 100th.

Now...it begins. THE SMILE IT UP RAFFLE. So who's gonna get the next skechcard eh? beats me! but I thought to myself, why not have more than one winner? So here's the low down. 5 of you MOOKIES will get to win. yep 5! I'm thinking i'll do this once in awhile until all of you get one. At first I was gonna just give all of you guys free sketchcards, but that would be nuts lol. This way should be easier. For me that is =) So i'll get all you mooks name in a hat and pick out the lucky five. Once you get picked, you simply email me confirming you are still alive or following lol. I draw the card, send it out, and ask if you such as Arjan, would kindly take a picture of it in your natural habitat ;) This time show your mugs SMILING IT UP! HEHEHEHE. if not, that's fine too, just take a snapshot please.

I'll post the rest of the pics Arjan took on my facebook page. If you're not my friend there...well raspberries on you my friend j/k

Oh i'm still drawing so hold tight everyone

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ye ole m00k!

EDIT:// So I will be picking out the winners tomorrow evening and post the 5 lucky winners Tuesday. All 118 Mookies are in the hat. new mookies after however will not be in the drawing. Don't fret, this raffle will be on frequently. GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!!!!

ANNNNND....IT'S OFF!!!...well almost

hola amigos and amigas!

How is everyone doing? So a quick post of the free sketch card that i'm going to send out to one Mr. Arjan Wilschut. Did this bad boy on my infamous brown sketchbook cut down to sketch card size. It felt really good to do traditional stuff, which btw I used prisma markers/pencils, col erase pencil and my trusty ol brush pen. I'm thinking of drawing more of these little dudes and sell them off for a fair price. others i'm gonna send off to one of you guys when I hold the raffle thing.

Anywhoo, took some dorky pictures just to show you what i'm sending off, and asked if Arjan when he receives the card, to take a picture of it in his homeland of the netherlands. I thought it would be neat to see. He not only agreed to my nerdy request, he said he would take it near some mills by his home....how cool is that?!?! ahem well, i'm gonna geek out now peoples! I will be posting soon

SMILE IT UP!!!

-ye ole m00k!

oh and Arjan buddy, I'll send it off tomorrow man!