hi!
i have a new deviantart account exclusively for illustrations for children. =]



mikuningpambata


I just wanted to segregate it so it'll be more organized, and for portfolio purposes. ^__^

( these are the things i do when i have a paper to cram )



I guess one of the biggest revolutions in my art style was brought about by Sir Egay Samar which is weird since he's a writer and not an artist. But he made an announced suggestion to artists in my class to join Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang INK) and
Adarna. I just thought that drawing for children's books was cool and i loved children (yes, it is that simplistic) so i researched more about it, learned about the artists and got hooked. Sir Samar also brought our workshop group to the launch of Severino Reyes' Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang (as retold by Christine Bellen) where of course children's illustrators were . (this is also where i got my first Panch Alcaraz books... i gave the first set to my godson and bought another for myself to be autographed when i sat in for her children's illus. class in Ateneo ).

i fell in love, i guess, with Children's illustration and up to now i can't really define this style o__o. but i guess it comes naturally, and unconsciously after i started looking at children's illustrators like Ma'am Panch, Pepper Roxas (who by the way is super cool and has, i think, the biggest influence in my art style among children's illustrators), Lisa Flores, etc.

I'm still trying to divert from the very Asian (yes, anime included) style orientation i kind of used as a foundation for learning how to draw. It is very hard. :nods: Especially if Sailor Moon is one of the first things you learned how to draw.

I guess one of the reasons why i like children's illustration is because i loved being a child. o__O

Sooo... yeah. Until now I keep discovering amazing children's illustrators like Marla Frazee and her work for Sarah Pennypacker's CLEMENTINE. ^__^ I guess...... I'll see what happens then. GAMBARU!