Recent drawings

I drew these while we were driving to Cagayan from Malaybalay - a cool mountain road. I was trying to draw continuously, drawing the things I saw along or on the road on the same page, as it came. It was fun and fast!





These three are trial illustrations for a book (about missionary member care) that the authour talked to me about drawing for. They'll probably get a lot better after I've drawn in this sort of style for a while. In order, there's someone getting a shock (don't really like this one), someone being suspicious, and someone being overloaded (I like this one).





This is a small doodle I drew June last year. I really liked how it looked so I tried to draw something similar yesterday.


1st try: This was without reference to the original. I don't like much about it except the how the hairstyle looks (however impossible it may be :)


2nd try: This drawing has its flaws (the mouth, which I like by itself, is a bit too low down; the eye looks nice and clear but a bit too slanted) but I like it much better.

Kaamulan drawings

'The Filipino throws himself into group activities with great enthusiasm.' was going to be the catchy title but its just a cartoon and therefore needs no title, right?

In the parade a few weeks ago the male dancers, every now and then, would do this huge shout-and-dash sequence which was actually very cool.



Later, but before i had looked at my photos, I tried to do a small pencil drawing of one of the female dancers. This is the sequence. My drawing of people is fairly random - it usually starts with an eye or two and works down from there.





Interesting how different she looks with her eyes fully drawn!

There's some major problems with her pose and costume, but it was never really meant to be a 'good' drawing... its purpose was more ejust to capture the feel and general ambiennce that I remembered from some of the girls.

More Kaamulan pics

check out the dude in the front's hair!! What I love about Filipino festivals is mostly their huge vibrancy and sense of easy-going effevencence. Which, yes i realise it, is a bit of an oxymoron. Sort of.





The main reason i have photos of Kaamulan posted is because I'm using it either fully or partly as my inspiration for my Body of Work. Hopefully I can pull off a narrative/illustrative type work based on it and perhaps the theme of 'journeys'.

Kaamulan

Finally get to write here again!!!

Anyway, a few weeks ago we were in town (ie a non-jungle place) and watched a festival. It's called Kaamulan and is based on the tribal cultures of Mindanao. I thought the parade was fantastic!One of my favourite parts of the street dancing was the dummers. This kid here was directing the ladies on traditional drums. Others were mostly on top of large floats. They were so enthusiastic that the floats would be bouncing up and down in time to the drumming!These kids were so cute!!
The whole festival is so brilliantly Filipino - tribal and town culture seemed to compliment eachother well.