The Night Monkeys is an anthology of not only Palanca Award winning children’s literature, but also a collection of illustrations done for each story included in it. It will be released from Tahanan Books. (I did the illustration you see here:)

As taken from the Tahanan Books multiply site:

Monday ~ 30 June 2008
5.00 P.M. to 7.00 P.M.
Mary Grace Café
Serendra
Fort Bonifacio Global City

(Attire: Casual)

Special launch price P275.
Retail price P295

For more information please contact Fran or Josie at 813-7165.

During the ToyCon 2008 held just recently, I took part in 2 contests. This was one of them: The Talecraft Illustration Contest. Talecraft is a story creation card game. There are character cards and I chose the Monstrous Adolescent card to illustrate (I chose 3 character cards randomly and opted to go for that one.)

My initially study was #1. But then I realized that the whole point of Talecraft is to have players come up with unique story & character ideas of their own and not to be boxed in by the relatively limited view presented on any card.  So I essentially went more towards a fairly more surreal and expressive illustration - hopefully giving players more leeway in terms of their imagination.

I used a child soldier as reference. He had a pretty intense gaze.

It’s been 2 months since he fell but my dad’s back at our place being nursed to health after POOR NURSING at Cardinal Santos Medical Center San Juan left him with bedsores. Did all the good Filipino nurses migrate already?

Since then I’ve done color work for IDW Publishing’s Speed Racer: the Next Generation, Alp Altiner’s Team 14, and other work from artist Joe St. Pierre. Not to mention 16 out of 32 pages of Robotika Rubles #3 pages and even some rotoscoping work from video artist Paul Pfeiffer.  (Yes I finished a short course on Adobe After Effects too.)

I even have old friends Gian Fernando and Valentine Whittaker get in touch with me again to do work they’ve mentioned before to me.

Apart from that, there’s are the Pixel Pintura workshops.  Congrats to our first Summer 2008 graduate, Mr. Lu, for successfully completing Digital Coloring Pro.  I will not mention your first name for fear of your mother’s chastising.

Hotoccassions.com has a feature on Pixel Pintura, by the way. ABS-CBN’s Rea Tiama also did one on me for Salamat Dok’s ASTIG feature… still waiting for the video on that.

With so much to do, I am looking for people who can learn the systems I employ in digital coloring for comics.  They must at least be high school graduates, and willing to to work on many of these projects - and more to come.  If you or anyone you know is interested, let me know.  Photoshop experience required.  Character illustration portfolio is 3 points, graphic design portfolio is 2 points, Vector illustration or tracing is 1 point . I consider punctual, energetic & curious applicants willing to work in Mandaluyong highly qualified for this;  nevertheless, tardy, lazy, and know-it-all telecommuting freelancers may also apply.