Ramini

I’ve pencilled, inked and somewhat cleaned (some pencil lines are visible, dammit!lousy me) this piece a little via PS and uploaded it on DA and linked it to a forum that I am irregularly participating in and posted in this here blog now in the wee hours of Saturday and I’m starting to dread that my social life is gradually amounting to zilch/nada/zero. As the wife would aptly say, “Murag alone naman ka karun cige lagi”. Hehehhe.  I’ve even recently neglected Friday night drinking spree with the boys for about a month or so now and the bands kinda getting stale even if we do have a gig coming up I don’t have the urge to be panic and prepare for the gig.  A typical day would be me off to work during the day and right after that  I’d go home and go read something and maybe a little sketch. Internet time is even minimal now and the tube is next to nothing. Maybe its just a phase but then again, maybe not. Nuff said about that.

The image above is my rendition of a character from a popular local radio soap opera during the late 90’s or so, here depicted decapitating the Super Debil Robot. Our neighbors help would blast the volume up during afternoons with programs such as this. We can’t help overhearing the program and get hooked somehow. Let our imaginations run loose as we try to discern the vocal dramatization. Ramini was the recent topic at some forum that I irregularly participate and we were urged to try our rendition of the character. Although this piece was a quickie and an unplanned one, spur of the moment and shit, I get to have the courage to try and ink it though and its a good thing, I guess.  I hope to render it and do it some lineart justice  (notice the poor excuse of a rendered bronze skin, geezus) it terribly deserves soon enuff. For now it will just serve as my quick contribution to the forum and a reason for me to update this blog. Again, nuff said. (@suede and @ramini, tnx for the topic).

Blog-filler 3: Hellfest 5 gig

Just want to shamelessly plug yet again a gig to be held (yet again! is there an echo here?) at the Boss Grill @ Mango Ave, Cebu this coming March 14, 2009 . My lousy band will (yet again, sheeesh!the band : AGNAS, we are a deathmetal cover band)be taking part again hopefully, if all goes well and we get to actually jam and practice again, last time I checked was from the last gig we did a month ag0. Check out the poster (I was asked again to do the poster so as with the other 3 gigs that came to past even if I sucked at doing it, FYI hehehe) for more details and stuff:

WIP- “The Sacrifice”

Yesterday, me and my collaborator and very close friend had a little brainstorming and discussion. We were pitching some ideas to and fro which eventually took shape with me having to make an 8 page short story plot and my friend doing some rough sketches for the characters we were pitching in for the story. It was a productive exercise (hopefully will not gear unto futility) of sorts and real breath of fresh air to get to have a chance to talk and discuss somethings other than the mundane that plagues our lives from day to day. Jogging our brain so to speak and let them creative fires burn. Rakenrol!

Well, hopefully we can wrap this thing up this coming March and get it print out together with another friends upcoming indie comics release to tag along with his pages as an filler of sorts, tnx Mot. We were somewhat inspired by the people up north in our nations capital. They still actively churn out inpedendent/self published/non-profit comic books/releases and very note worthy indeed. All for the love of the medium and me and me friends hope to do so as well though measely and meager we may be. Me and my friend (or collectively we both called ourselves Metal Works Studio, though no studio can be found, just a name we tag ourselves with…hehehe) are starting with collaborating on this 8-page endeavour now and hopefully we get to finish this and get on with our lives.

Me on plots/scripts (and maybe, just maybe be inking the pages but seriously considering Mot to do the job, oh lazy moi or terrified moi) and him on pencilling duties. Character definitions and overall look and feel by the both of us and we already did it yesterday primarily.

The story is a short based on the concept that “what-if on your 21st birthday you were whisked out of our routine life by powerful beings and help you shape to be the destined champion for the world against an invading horde hell bent on destroying the earth?”. Well, that about sums things up for now. Below are the character sketches that my good friend and collaborator E.J. Espinosa thought up with (all sketches made by him with me ranting and raving along the side and yeah, pitching in)…by the way, wish us luck:

Our Protagonist for the WIP-Sacrifice

Our Antagonist for the WIP-Sacrifice

The Horde/Minions of the Antagonist for WIP-Sacrifice

The One who will aide our Protagonist in the WIP-Sacrifice

The Sentry

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Just a sketch of The Sentry. Actually, I haven’t had the chance to get to read the comics but I really like the Sentry’s design so I might as well try a sketch on him for practice and to update this blog somehow. I’ve been meaning to post it last Thursday but my PC was not cooperating with me. I did a quick wiki search on the guy and man its cool to know that he has the power of one thousand exploding suns running in his veins, how friggin cool is that for superpowers. Right next to invisibility and xray vision (wink!wink!). Anyways, no inks though, I’m bound to try them soon enough and post it here for its getting pretty lame posting just pencils. 

 

Sentry discard

Heres my first sketch attempt of The Sentry which I am posting here as reference. This blog is about my works in progress by the way and what better way than to show you my processes no matter how mundane.

Notice the huge hump which is my attempt at replacing the erased cape (I googled images of the character and noticed that his cape is actually pinned on his back and not showing on his neckline which I did in my previous attempt)and  horribly gone steriods. I made him look like the Hulk in Sentry’s outfit which made me decide to eventually redrew him altogether. 

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Not related to this post but I’m gonna babble on anyways, last night me and a friend of mine get to hang out with Motmot in his place (tnx dude!he’s got a huge collection of near mint comics we just love to drool at). He moonlights as a sequential artist and is nearing completion on the first issue of his pet project and kudos to him for coming up with such good stuff. We happen to get a glimpse on his creative process and his art and it was enlightening and made me and my accomplice be inspired more to come up with our own concoction soon and help contribute to the cebu comics movement. Hopefully . 

Tag–>I’m It! 25 Random Things

(tagged by John Amor via Facebook)

1.) I am known by different nicknames: chummy (by college/hi school buds or recent friends and acquaintances), gundoy (by relatives and old friends), mangtas (by the cebu extreme music scene/crowd) and doods (by my dearly departed mother and her 2 bestfriends).

2.) My beer dosage limit is 4 (1000ml) bottles of RedHorse.

3.) I get drunk and passed out almost always during a drinking spree and can’t remember when or how I got back home alive.

4.) I am a frustrated sequential artist and still wants to be one.

5.) I play in a cebu based deathmetal band as bass/vocals just for kicks since 1994.

6.) I despise math and now I’m stuck working in an auditing firm.

7.) My motto in life is ” Wisest is he who knows that he does not know”.

8.) I maintain blog sites and join networking sites (such as these) even if I’ve got nothing interesting to share and post.

9.) My favorite color is black and no other.

10.) The nickname Chummy was derived by a high school mate of mine who insisted on calling me by that name because it reminded him of the Royal True Orange commercial featuring a chubby kid popular at that time. (I’ll break his neck if given the chance and I could turn back the clock)

11.) Party Clowns give me the jeepers creepers.

12.) I mentally say “Fuck You!” almost every time I get the chance.

13.) I’m one of them sensitive new age guys (eheheheh) or SNAG who loves poetry and sheds a tear during sunsets (uhmmmm…mebe not that sensitive).

14.) I am an internet forum lurker by birth.

15.) I still keep my hotmail email since 1997 eventhough I don’t use it.

16.) My greatest fan and critique is my Wife .

17.) I have mastered the art of making everyone think that I’m working on something.

18.) I sometimes hallucinate that I am the Shane Embury (Napalm Death fame) of the Cebu Metal Scene.

19.) A close friend of mine and I originated a black metal band in Cagayan de Oro. Me on Bass duties.

20.) I have an Industrial Metal side project band as bassist that is put on hold.

21.) In the height of Cueshe’s success some chic actually mistook me as a member of the said band once while commuting to SM.

22.) I am a closet Agnostic and seriously thinking about Nihilism.

23.) I still have to read a couple of books that I have acquired over the last two years.

24.) I hate Nazi wearing keeds (believe me, there’s lots of them nowadays).

25.) I am patient, so much so that everyone thinks that I am too passive.