Word Art Shirts!

This is by far, my favorite! 10 Ataris Games in Pacman form!

About 7 years ago, I started making shirts as gifts for friends who celebrated their birthdays. A few birthdays passed and numerous comments about the shirts I posted on Multiply, people started asking me to have shirts customized for them and their friends. I loved that I got to exercise my right brain and get paid to boot! Look at some of my favorites that I made below:

Slopes for a Peppery Lunch!

My good friends from the office and I are trying to out score each other in a very addicting game called Solipskier! It's a ski game which main objective is to draw snow under under the skier to gain speed, do tricks and hit bonus gates! 

MAJOR MAJOR

Would I earn some MAJOR MAJOR cash with these shirts?

Y/N?


Cheers!
SFM


♬ Listening to Mystery Jets' Seratonin

Fair Warnings & Villainous Mustaches!

It's one of those days where I am high on anger pills. I know we all have those days and what better way to turn an irritable day into a creative one? I'm making Fair Warning cards so I can flash it to everyone in the office. You can say that I am very considerate.

The villainous mustache makes the message clearer:

Stay Away *evil snarl*!

SFM & Chuck

♬ Listening to Incubus' Sick Sad Little World

Leave me here in my stark raving sick sad little world!~

Mnla Dsgn Wk 2010 Cbao X Endr

If you’re a fine arts graduate|student, an art enthusiast, or a music lover and haven’t been to or heard of Cubao X, then you’ve been missing one artsy fartsy scene!

The most common questions I get from friends who haven’t been to Cubao X are:
What is Cubao Expo?
Where is Cubao Expo?
What to do in Cubao Expo?

To which questions, I answer:
It’s a quaint spot somewhere in the metro where you can find art, antiques, random handmade items, comics, toys, food!, booze, fanciful furniture, and weird-shaped stores.

Dress-It-Yourself Diana Exhibit at Heima Store

Drawings Weekly: The Old Woman Who Lived In A Bespoke Shoe

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I was searching Google for handmade shoes the other day and saw this intricate white bespoke shoe. It is to be worn by the bride on her wedding day. Although in my eyes it looked like an elf's, it was still very beautiful. And then for some strange reason,  out of nowhere really, I thought of the old woman who lived in a shoe. Wouldn't it be so grand to live in such a luxurious piece of handmade shoe? Then I remembered that the old woman who lived in a shoe was very much poor and had too many kids and had little food to feed them. I wanted to create my very own illustration of the woman who lived in a shoe but I wanted to make her happy and stay away from the negative story that the child's poem narrates to us. In my illustration, she has 6 kids, a husband, a dog and a cat, a telescope and a very cool inflatable pool that ll the neighbors envy. Isn't it wonderful?

That's it! I'm gonna start painting again!

Fly Away On My Zephyr

My artworks at times get a high dose of rainbow shots and  as much as I want it to not look like it has been vomited by a double rainbow, it just looks like it. Below is an example of an artwork I made years back:

Daily Random: Whistle While You Work!

Look at that! The woodland creatures are tyring to measure how long my hair is! Hahaha.

Whistling while I work,
SFM

♬ Listening to Wheels by the Foo Fighters

Smile Like You Mean It~

Save some face, you know you only got one~

Yes, that is my face and my curly hair.
SFM

♬ Listening to Sam's Town & Hot Fuss albums by The Killers ★

You better run for the hills before they burn
Listen to the sound of the world, don't watch it turn
I just want to show you what I know 
And catch you when the current lets you go~

Brain Farts at Eat, Sleep, Draw! ★

If you have Tumblr, then you prolly have been to Eat, Sleep, Draw.

Eat, Sleep, Draw is a site that features hundreds of illustrations, sketches, paintings, drawings and other artworks that are submitted by followers all over the world everyday!

Here's an Eat, Sleep, Draw banner I made that got posted. For some creative outlet, why don't you submit your art and banners? :)

Let the record plaaay!
SFM

♬ Listening to Good Charlotte songs; Dance Floor Anthem & Keep Your Hands Off My Girl. "They said Ahhhhha! But the record keeps playing the same old song"

My Heart Upon My Sleeve, Iago

I was browsing through my old stuff and found a thick pocket book covered in dust. It was Shakespeare's Othello. Though much of the story I have already forgotten, I still remember this one character, a man of villainous veins, a felon written so poetically that I wish I could've crossed paths with him in my past life: Iago. 

I had to look for these lines on the internet as I remember this is the phrase (?) where the title of this entry originated from. Haven't you heard this line in so many pop songs and didn't know it was Shakespeare who coined it?


IAGO:

It is as sure as you are Roderigo,

Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:
In following him, I follow but myself;
Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
But seeming so, for my peculiar end:
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

In Transit : Braver & Bolder Becomes Me

Movies are like cheat sheets you can get a lot of pick up lines from...or if you're like me, you not only get quotes from them, you live through these movies.

I am inclined to liking films that speak of finding yourself, getting lost through the journey, taking chances - those sorts of cliches. (Cliche? Y/n?)

I suppose, the movies that I fancy speak a lot about things that I want to do in life. At 22, I am at crossroads. I am a lost soul: I am looking for my place in the industry I've decided to work in, I'm in the midst of deciding which career path to take and I am burnt out, high and dry!

I am in dire need of a holiday. I long to get lost, twilight and do things that I love.

While I save up for a vacation, here's a showcase of some of my favorite lines and quotes from some of my most loved movies that I turned into postcards last year:

  Into the Wild (2007), Starring Emile Hirsch

STAND UP AND DELIVER! ☮

I say, IT'S ABOUT TIME YOUNG GUNS IN THE PHILIPPINES LOOK FORWARD TO SOMETHING WHERE THEIR WORKS CAN BE RECOGNIZED. This is brilliant. It is a sign of things to come for the Design industry in our country.

I know some of my professors and some design elitists are frowning upon me for supporting award-giving blahs like this. I remember a professor telling me that it is not the awards you receive that define your success or something and that living for awards is pathetic to put it bluntly. It's just that, for me, it feels great to be acknowledged and awards can  push artists and designers to never let their design guards down. (What did I just say there? lol) It's something to keep everyone on their toes, it is something to get inspiration from...just like what Martha Stewart always says, it's a good thing. 

Below, I've copy pasted some information about the PGDA in hopes that many artists and designers and colleagues will join in the FIRST EVER Philippines Graphic Design Awards! ☮

 

The Philippine Graphic Design Awards or PGDA is the first and only local awards program in the Philippines that celebrates Filipino graphic designers in a showcase of the most creative and innovative artwork produced within the last year. 

This is the first time Filipino graphic designers will go head-to-head in a showcase of the most noteworthy graphic design artwork produced within the last year. If you need more convincing, here are more reasons you should join this year. If you're a Filipino graphic designer, and proud of it. If you want to be taken more seriously for your craft. (And demand more for it without the need for a lengthy explanation.) If you've got a feeling your artwork is among the best that is out there. If you want to find out for sure and how you fare among your peers. If you know there are no walls to being creative and you’ve always wanted to break each one that boxed you in.

 

PGDA endeavors to elevate the stature and perception of the Philippine graphic design industry by establishing a point of reference for Philippine graphic design among its regional and international counterparts. It strives to create opportunities and to inspire Filipino graphic designers to continually produce unique, cutting-edge artwork that exude distinctively Filipino qualities.

It's time, creative peeps!
If you feel insignificant to the industry, make yourself known and be recognized!

STAND UP AND DELIVER!

For celebrating local graphic design, cheers!
SFM

♬ Listening to No Doubt :)

Wonder if they'll ever come to our shores, when they do, expect that I'll be in front~

Weekend Wackness : Capsule Dinos!

As you may have noticed (or not), one of the items in my previous illustration is of a swimming dinosaur inside a shot glass.
Wouldn't it be a better place if we had miniature dinosaurs that fit shot glasses?

What I would do to make these babies real even just for an hour~

Forget about those cute micro pigs, adorable teacup puppies and squish-worthy toy dogs.
Say hello to SHOT GLASS DINOS!

A Thumbelina Triceratops!

A Tom Thumb T-Rex (Did you just read Tom as Thom?)

And even a Tinker Velociraptor! (Saw what I did there? Hahaha)

Oh hey, some bad photoshoppping on my end! Haha

Since dinosaurs are like...uhmmm... extinct, my brothers and I bought something close to that: We bought foam dinosaurs in capsules!

All you have to do with the capsules is soak them in hot water and watch them grow (or force them to "grow" by poking the capsule with a toothpick...or a ball point pen if you wish).

Aside from the possible brain damage caused by the ridiculous smell of the melting plastic capsules, the foam dinosaurs turned out okay.

The Capsule Animals Set includes 12 capsules in 4 colors. The set sells for about $1.
WHAT A STEAL, I say, what a steal!

The green one is a Triceratops, the yellow one a Diplodocus, the blue one an Oviraptor, the red one a Utahraptor

One of my favorites is the herbivore dino, the Diplodocus.
She's that yellow one in the center.
It looks so happy and dinosaur-y. Y/y?
I'm naming him Yellow Foam Happy Diplodocus Dinosaur or YFHDD for short.

So anyway, while you absorb the concept of real live shot glass dinos, I'm off to naming all these foam dinos and maybe change YFHDD's name. It may be too long. He might not remember it when I call for him.

Very Cherry Jelly Belly Beans,
SFM

♬  Listening to Runaway Train by Brandon Boyd's Newest Solo Project, The Wild Trapeze Album (What an awesome album! Wonder how many days until mine gets shipped~)

"Seems to be, that being in the middle is starting to get me in trouble
Try to run away, but they have a talent for making trouble seem enjoyable
Oh the more I try to separate, the better it feels to get right in the way
Should I douse the spark or fan the flames
Or merely think of clever things to say?"