Rusty Banana Forge

Just recently I got a comment to my Shame of Satan post about how that particular image gave Troy the feeling of rebirth (yes, oddly.) That was when I just really felt I needed to say something about the dissected Jesus being posted on Artist Den previously…. (yes someone did post it ). I illustrated Shame of Satan as a response. I just had to. Hopefully it also made a point. (I got a comment saying that Satan doesn’t need wings to fly, that’s probably true - but where he’s going there’s no where else he can go but down.)

This is another illustration I did for similar reasons. I had hate to upload. Done in about an hour:

Another reason why you may want to learn Digital Painting: Art Therapy. Here, I just unloaded all my hateful feelings onto canvas. No this NOT my way of doing voodoo or sumpa, kulam or barang. It’s my way of clearing myself creatively of spite thrown against my family by a certain woman. She is perpetually heaping insults at us and stabbing herself with venomous knives and then blaming it on us. So what’s a Christian to do, right? I can pray for her, sure - but God help me, this requires EXTRA grace. Nuclear payloads full of grace. So as an artist, this is how I deal with emotions. (And NO, it’s not for sale.)

Perhaps you are asking, why post this illustration, Mr. Christian Artist? It’s not very Christian now is it?
Well, maybe. It’s a frightful scare, I know … and Halloween’s pretty much over. But my reason is to rebuke the woman… who uses her tongue to make her money and her poison: The Bible says what is hidden will be brought to light. Nothing that is concealed will be hidden forever. Let those who have no sin cast the first stone.
Salt water and fresh water cannot flow from the same spring Let God decide then which spring she will have.

Every time I write one of these messages, she should not take these lightly! For these (I’m guessing there’ll be more) will serve as witness to God and to everyone else that she has given many chances to repent and put a rein on her tongue. Deceit and false witness are not of God.

I leave her name out because I believe God wouldn’t be pleased if He would be able to Google her name and find me poking fun at her face. So instead I have settled to keep it anonymous.

Let this work and the accompanying words remind me, just how much God loves us and even those who hate us.

On a scale of 1 to 5. 5 being the most busy. October would be a 4. Production actually didn’t give me time for collection! So while technically I did not make any significant income in October, there’ll be a windfall of cash on November. No worries.

I’ve been asked to do 3 tryouts for 3 different. projects. 2 to illustrate children’s books and 1 to color a comic book. For the former, I must say it really helps to be in Ang INK’s catalogue. The illustration I have there is getting me work on “historical” books. Is it my niche? We’ll see, because one of those books I’ll be trying out for is slightly more contemporary. But generally it appears that the portfolio piece you have in any catalogue will determine what sort of projects you will be offered. This is part of the advice Mela Bolinao mentioned to INK previously regarding portfolios.

Alamat ng Butiki illustrations are done. Attached here is a prefinal look at the cover spread. 1st week was waiting for approval, 3 weeks were for production. I’d say the book’s story requires some PG (Parental Guidance), and the art is of the sort that just DEFIES the cute and graphic nature of the current 2005 selection of local children’s books. I don’t know how many parents would like to give their kids a scary children’s book for Christmas. Also I have this impression very young children will not easily take to characters that aren’t a collection of fun & simple shapes. Which we can say is a good thing for this story because it IS PG-rated.

By the way. Artista Jac Ting Lim now does her stripping for a global audience. Check out Jac Strips for You., now available for your compatible mobile phone. Other artists, including myself tried to sell mobile phone comics locally - but that didn’t really pan out. I’m glad Jac managed to get a better deal!

Publisher Adarna House is looking for story submissions from the Philippines for its Anino imprint of graphic novels. While this may mean that the imprint’s first two published books have been received well in the market, I have doubts if they’ll go for another supernatural one. Because they’ve already had Arnold Arre’s Mythology Class done.