We were having a class on Blender. Jonno was teaching us.

Director, concerned while modeler explains his position.

This is today’s “daily” daily drawing. On scrap paper. Finished before the first five minutes it took us to update our SVN.

We had were having our “dailies.” Just as in any production, we’ve got problems to solve. Hence, Jonno’s pose. Haha!

This was done using a blue ball point on scratch paper from the administrative department, hence the notes on the lower right corner (or upper left, if you put right side up).

These are 5 to 10 minutes gesturals. I once read a book about the art of the nude pencil. If there is one practice that we, artists, do today that can be traced all the way back to the renaissance, it’s figure drawing. This thing will never die. So long as there is either money in this trade or passionates who’d continue without, there will be warriors who’d wanna sharpen their swords; and figure drawing is the equivalent of running laps for exercise.

I did this for Tinay when we were given sculpting projects in 3dsense as students. I saw it as an opportunity to make something for her. I looked for concepts around me and within me. I drew inspiration from the work of Fabricio Moraes (CG aritst). (I think he’s got awesome lighting in his artworks, my students should emulate.)

I am a bit of a Quixote, at times. I choose to believe in things, regardless of proof, particularly for inspiration. I thirst for it.

When I finished the sculpture, I told Tinay about it. The arm broke before I could bring it home to her. I’ll fix it one of these days. Then I would bring it home–to my Dulcinea de la Marikina.

My Quixote shows a couple things. The pose shows an old man, offering himself up to someone he loves. One might say he is offering himself for romance, but no one offers himself to romance while wielding a sword. I’d rather say that before romancing your love, you must be prepared to defend your love.

I decided to post pictures of some of my artworks here. Some of them are too big for the scanner, so I scanned multiple times and combined them. That means a bit of artifacts here and there, I hope you’d forgive. If you wonder why some of the latter drawings look familiar, like you see them from some art history book before, that because they are copies of mine of some masters’ works. I was studying the way they handled their strokes.