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First of all, YEAH I NOTICED THAT ALL OF MY OTHER PHOTOS ARE GONE. I wish I can just go cry in the corner and wish all the photos re-appear but that will never happen according to this link: Blogspot Users Lost All Their Photos. Seriously pissed at Google+!

Anyhoo, please score my Threadless design sub and help it get printed! There will be 10 winners for this contest and I am praying that I be one of the 10. I seriously need the prize money to pay for the productions of the Slate Planners for 2012! So, you're not just scoring my sub, you're being very supportive of my business too! Haha :)

Score this design: "Le coeur de Manille!," to help it get printed on Threadless!

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Salamat!

All the best,
SFM

Read, Dream, Soar~

A month ago, I stumbled upon Isaac Salazar’s book art on flickr and got inspired to do this.
I used one of my most favorite nebula (after The Eagle Nebula), The Orion Nebula as background. Here are the close ups:

What to Give Your Creative Girlfriend This Christmas ♥

We don't want to over sell these babies but we also don't want your girlfriends to miss out on such a find!

If your girlfriend is that smart, creative, no-fuss, artsy individual, there's a huge chance that she might like this...and might love you for doing justice to her tastes.

Also, why don't you get one for yourself?

Just saying ;)
LIVE CREATIVELY ミ★
SFM

P.S.> For more information on how to get your hands on copies of the Slate Planner, visit http://planetslate.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/place-your-orders/ or access the Order Forms right away and click this> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Planet-Slate/137892916260968?v=app_7146470109

Planet Slate Posters ミ★

Here are some of the posters I made for Slate:

Cause Cats Love Fashion Too ♥

Beautiful things captured on beautiful photos can rule my world anytime...and some of those beautiful photos can be seen over at SeaOfShoes.com by Jane Aldridge. It is one of my favorite blogs to read and follow.

A couple of weeks ago, I read about a contest on Jane Aldridge's blog. You are to choose to draw an outfit from any Spring 2011 collection. As I read it, I decided I had to join. I mean, I HAD to because I just saw a really cool outfit that I wanted to draw with a chic cat wearing it...in London! See her at the left part of this page? 

That top with the scarf print is  the brainchild of Marco Zanini, Creative Director for Rochas  Women's RTW Spring 2011 Collection. I love Marco Zanini's designs. Wait, scratch that. I love Marco Zanini! I love his designs. I must be honest though that I haven't heard about him before late this year and I'm in the stage of finding out more about this genius. I'm not really a fashion junkie so that explains a lot on why I don't know a lot about him (so my resolution is: get a lot of help from Vogue.com & Fashionologie! Harhar).

Anyhooo, as for the other entries, I am enjoying browsing through all of them. All the illustrations are so lovely :) I kinda passed my submission late so I'm okay not seeing mine posted on the photo pool. ALL of the entries can be found HERE. 

♬ Listening to The Killers' Goodnight, Travel Well~

Labor of Love...and BrainCells! ミ★

It's been a while since I last posted here and it's because of THIS.
A few friends and I have been slaving over Thinking Planet's newest project: THE SLATE PLANNER. Not to sound too biased, look at how awesome the pages turned out:

You can find more of the teaser pages HERE.

Hope you can support me in my newest project!
As Buzz says, To infinity and beyoooond!
SFM

Zoom zoom zooooooom~

A Yabadabadoo Time!

This is a belated post. I never really was a great birthday-greeter.
Most of the time, I'd forget it was a dear friend's birthday.

Anyhoo, I found this the other day on Google:

Coolio. It has been 50 years! Imagine how old Fred is now if he really aged.

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!~

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

Click on me to view a larger version

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?

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.

Vector Mucho?

This is a portrait I made of Jalon, an extraordinary artist in Spain.

I kinda messed up his visible eye but I still love this portrait~

This is Nil Bartolozzi, an artist in Barcelona~

I love the colors on this one and the lines too.

I guess everyone's picked it up by now that I am as much as a vector illustrator as I am a female. I don’t know exactly what I meant by that but it sounds right, doesn’t it?

BabyCakes!

I adore lines. Lines, in my opinion, make my illustrations look less naked. 

A few months ago, I saw a photo of this squish-worthy baby in Tumblr.

It reminded me of Neil Gaiman’s short, Babycakes and so it resulted to the illustration below.

The whole illustration is basically made up of lines and layers and layers of color. I couldn't give justice to this baby's eyes though. They are of a cat's! They're so beautiful.  

I don't know if you get the idea behind the toys I drew in. Closest guess, gets a kiss! Haha.

Babycakes is one of my favorite shorts by Gaiman. It’s about how one day, animals disappeared and in place of them, humans used babies…to eat, to test products on…that kind of creepy. I remember reading this as I listen to Eels' Flyswatter. It's a perfect mix of creepy; song and story! Below this, I've posted a screen shot of the Babycakes artwork done by Jouni Koponen.

You can see and read full Babycakes here.

Cheers!

SFM

♬ Listening to: Monster by The Automatic! & Flyswatter by Eels

☮ Wearing my tan skirt from 6th grade! Haha.

Some Facts About My Toys & My Hair

This is by far my favorite illustration of my 9 year old self (not that I had plenty).
Unlike some of my illustrations, this comes with a background story~

Spaghetti Hair & Dino Glasses

 

Dinosaurs are my most favorite extinct creatures in the whole wide world. I would like to believe that I was a dinosaur in my past life. I would be the cute geeky carnivore one but doesn't eat her fellow dinos. I'd have many friends but only two really important ones...or three. We'd always hang together, talk about the future and then discover a greener pasture where we lead all the other dinosaurs and then we would be heroes. I'd be the most popular one cause I'd have to fight this other nasty older dino, who with his hard headedness accidentally leads the pack to a cliff. Wouldn't that be awesummm?

Seafoam Monkey Has Landed!

Ending the week with this illustration of me and some of my favorite things in the world. :)
(I drew everything except for the space suit, the Thomas Harris books & the C3P0 lego figure. Haha.)