KOMIKON 2009 SKED

October 18, Sunday Entrance: P80.00(free entrance for kids 4 feet below) 10:00 AM Start program: Audio / Video play 11:00 AM Sponsor Time: CSB 12:00 PM Audio / Video play 12:30 PM Band: Bandang Shirley 1:00 PM Sponsor Time: Glasshouse Graphics 1:30 PM Awarding: Komiks Character of the Year Awarding: Best Comic Scene Awarding: Best Webcomic Awarding: Grassroot Award *Auction for a cause 2:00 PM Sponsor Time: Vibal Foundation (book launch) 2:30 PM Guest Q&A: Dencoy Miel & Edd Aragon 3:00 PM Band: Giniling Festival 3:30 PM Guest Q&A: John Lent 4:00 PM Sponsor Time: FHM / Summit Media 4:30 PM PICCA Announcements of contest winners 5:30 PM Awarding: Comics Aid Award Awarding: Best Cover Awarding: Best Cartoonist Awarding: Comic Creator/s *Auction for a cause 6:00 PM Guest Q&A: Budjette Tan & Kajo 6:30 PM Sponsor Time:Jack TV 7:00 PM Announcement of KOMIKON contest winners *Auction for a cause Awarding: Best Comic Strip Compilation Awarding: Best Comic Magazine Awarding: Best Comic Series Awarding: Best Graphic Novel / Anthology 8:00 PM Band: Flush and the Toilettes 8:30 PM Audio / Video play 9:00 PM START EGRESS Registration for on the spot comic strip making contest: 10am - 1:00 On the spot comic strip making contest: 1:30 - 2:30pm

IT'S HERE!!!

DIZIZIT!!! KOMIKON 2009!!!! October 18, 2009 Sunday, 10am - 9pm Megatrade Hall 1, 5th Level Bldg. B, SM Megamall Entrance Fee: P80.00 PUNTA TAYO!!!

MCC is the Next Big Thing

MCC Program of Activities August 8, 2009 - Saturday 10AM – Ribbon Cutting Onstage Activities 11-AM – Band Performance – Matilda 12PM – Suspended Animation Media Get to know the people behind the SAM (Suspended Animation Media), Yuri Timg, Abet Ongkingco and Lali Saulo-Ongkingco as they explain how your concepts can come to life. 1PM – CreatiVoices Panel What would you do, if you find out that you're actually "talking" to an Anime character? Meet the voices behind your favorite anime shows and learn more about the art of voice acting, organized by Society of Young Voice Artists of the Philippines and CreatiVoices Productions! 2PM – Pinoy Toy Kolektors: Show me your desk Awarding See PTK member’s creativity in designing their own desk full of toys, action figures, statues and replicas. The best will be awarded with an Exclusive Mono Vinyl Toy courtesy of Mindstyle, PTK Shirt and Mug 2:30PM – Craze Cosprsay product launch A new product promoted by cosplay.ph that will dye your hair with different colors. NOTE: It’s washable! 3PM – Band Performance – Gupit Binata X 4PM – Indie Film Panel – Alessandro Productions Learn the secrets of Indie Film making and see how Filipino Indie Films made it in the international scene hosted by Film maker, Paolo Herras, of Alessandro Productions. 5PM – Indie Comic Panel Bakemono High. Bayan Knights. Maskarado. Sanduguan. Trese. Unstoppable. YOUR OWN INDIE TITLE COULD BE NEXT! Visit the Indie Comic Panel and know more about indie-making from Gilbert Monsanto, Budjette Tan, and friends! 6PM - Pinoy Mainstream Artists Panel Meet some of the country's internationally-acclaimed comic book artists! Listen and learn how they made it in the industry. Get the chance to ask them questions about anything under the sun. Featuring Carlo Pagulayan, Harvey Tolibao, Jay David Ramos, Ernest Jocson, Stephen Segovia and Mico Suayan. 7PM – Band Performance – Giniling Festival *other activities Costrip Day – Cosplay.ph booth Are you shy to stand up on stage but has the guts to wear your favorite anime, mecha and pinoy superhero? Then be what ever you wanna be and join the “Unleash the Hero within Costrip day.” Toy Customization Contest – Cosplay.ph booth Attention toy customizers everywhere! Get a chance to win exciting prizes at the MCC Toy Customization Contest! Just bring your customized toy and register at the Cosplay.ph booth. One toy per registrant only. Sponsored by Magnavision and Otakuzine. August 9, 2009 – Sunday 10am – Opening Onstage Activities 11am – Band Performance – Los Chupacabras 12pm – International Game Developers Association – Manila Chapter IGDA will be sharing their knowledge and will have a panel discussion regarding game development and the gaming industry. 1pm – CreatiVoices Voice Acting Panel Get to meet the voices behind your favorite Anime characters! Learn from the best, for you might be the country's next Voice Acting Star! 2pm - E-games What's new with the world of online gaming? Join E-Games as they present their latest online game in town. There will be demos, promotions and other exciting stuff! 3pm – Band Performance – Gorgoro 4pm – Animax Cosplay Competition Talented cosplayers will take part and showcase their live performances as ANIMAX gives you “Animax Cosplay Star” and be the next Cosplay Idol. 7pm – Band Performance - Nexxus *Other Activities Comics Creation 101 – Conference Room SM Megatrade Hall. Learn how to draw, ink, color and build up your portfolio and get a chance to have your art critiqued by some of the country’s best comic book artists!

TUTORIAL POST #2: How to Draw The Gener Pedriña Way

One of my favorite artist in Deviant Art, Bossing Gener Pedriña, just gave me the Permission to post his turorial! Thanks Bossing Ner! An now, behold: (Click for Larger Image)

QR Codes

A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes. Moreover, most current Japanese mobile phones can read this code with their camera. --Wikipedia My boss and I were doing some research on making "Discount Cards" for our medicine lines. I was instructed to research on a coding system for these cards. I encountered magnetic stripe swipe cards, barcoded cards... but they are just too way out of budget for a trial run. I came across one that caught my attention... QR CODES. Easy to use and easy to make! I'm still exploring the possibilities of these being used in our discount cards. Then I remembered that I have a DC Kids mag that has a QR code... I thought, maybe my friends who have indie comics can use this somehow. Well here are some links on QR Code creators that I find user-friendly. I-Nigma.Com - it has an easy to use and understand QR Code maker and Reader. Explore the site and find out if your phone is compatible with their application. Nokia Mobile Codes - has links and instructions. I hope with these infos my friends can make use of this in their comics. By the way, here's a QR Code of mine. The QR code by the way can be used instead for a barcode or as a promotional thingy. I'll research more of these QR codes. By the way, I found this online QR decoder. ZXing Decoder You see, these QR Codes carry certain infos of the product they are attached to. For Example, you can put QR codes to your Business Card to make it a little more high-tech! Here's an article about that: Click Here! There! I hope this article will be usefull.

Tutorial Post #1 : DIGITAL FLATTING by CRYSTAL THOMAS

Ok, since this is my Art Blog, I decided to post some Art tutorials I've gathered from some friends. And it will start in 3... 2... 1... Action! For my 1st Tutorial Post, I've decided to post this Digital Flatting Tutorial from Ms.Crystal Thomas, an amazing Artist from Deviant Art. Here's the video: I will be posting more tutorials soon!

Drawing Post # 12 : OVERDRIVE

Been really stressed out in the office because of some unscheduled deadlines... and my self therapy is drawing, reading and mobile web browsing... stumbled upon the Deviant Art page of friend Markus... well, i decided to do a fanart of OVERDRIVE...

New Line Arts : Drawing Post #11

Another take on Sir Gio's KALAYAAN, this time in another art style. This is Gerard "Rhardo" Fernadez' original character, SALAKAY. This is Sir Gilbert Monsanto's original character, SARHENTO SAGRADO. This is Juan Paolo Mañanita's original character, ANG MORION.

Got me a New Office Printer! Yey!

Finally, after months of agony and suffering, I'm saved!!! My boss got me a new Canon Pixma iP1980 Printer with continuous ink. The printer is so quiet compared with my old Epson Stylus c90 printer. My c90 was a great help for me though. It has been the office printer since 2006. And it was passed on to me when I got hired in 2008. So basically, it served its purpose. After tons of printing jobs ( i mean tons!) and a few trips to the technician, my printer finally showed signs of retirement. Wear and tear got into it's internal mechanism. It makes hell lot of noise when printing, specially in draft mode. Until last april, it began to make an awefull noise when paper feeding. I tell you, it's so annoying! Then after a few more days, it wont paper feed by itself anymore! You must literally push the paper in for it to print. And it gets paper jam often. Imagine pushing in almost hundreds of paper pages! But I'm thankful for now that I have a new printer! Thank you boss!

Drawing Post # 10: IDA in color

Finally, I finished coloring Ate Robin Rivero's IDA.

Drawing Post #9: Lady Galathea

This is LADY GALATHEA, an original character I made for a contest in DA. She possesses the Elemental power of Earth. Read more at my DA Page.

Drawing Post #8: Kiddo Colored

My Colored Version of the Animated Kiddo!

Drawing Post #7: More Drawings

This is Leo "Leong Magyeyelo" Damoncal. A character I made for an OC Tourney in Deviant Art named Brgy.Bakbakan. He has no special powers, just pure skill and awesomeness! He is a factory worker in an Ice Plant. Here are couple more Fan Arts I made for my Friends. Will color them soon. This is IDA, Ate Robin Rivero's original character. This is The COUNCIL, Pinoy Super Heroes' original character. My take on Mike Ignacio's ASTIGING BOY IPIS! Here is Leo goofing around with Sir Gener Pedriña's BATO:AGIMAT WARRIOR. All characters are copyrighted by their respective owners. It is prohibited to use them without prior notice to owner.

Drawing Post #6 Fan Art

My take on Myke Guisinga's Claw.

Drawing Post #5 Fan Arts

This is my take on Stephanie Faith Bautista's Tephra

Drawing Post #4 Some Fan Arts I Made

This one is Myles Chua's Zheya. A birthday Fanart gift. Kiddo with Teardrop's Niño. This is Sir Gio Paredes' Kalayaan.

Drawing Post #3

A mock cover for my Kiddo comics... Sana magkatotoo... Maybe just maybe in the near future. My first Kiddo artwork I digitally colored. More Kiddo artworks I did, featuring Niño.

Drawing Post #2

Kiddo Real Name: Miguelito Banaag Birth Date: April 13, 1990 Height: 5'5" Weight: 110 lbs Base of Operation: Pampanga and Nearby towns Powers and Weapons: Extremely Sharp Retractable Claws and Teeth Superhuman Strength and Agility Enhanced Self Healing Hightened Senses Berserker Form (happens in a limited span of time because of extreme anger and adrenaline rush) Natural talent of Creating Improvised Weapons Story: Celia was raped by one of her suitors after refusing the love it offered. The suitor happened to be a Horde Commander of an Aswang Clan planning to attack the Luzon Area. The unholy act resulted to the pregnancy of Celia, Kiddo's mother. After learning about his suitor's real identity(which happened to be the time she was being raped, maybe because of exhilirating feeling of sex, the commander was unaware that he was transforming bit by bit), Celia tried to abort the child by taking locally brewed concoctions (like the ones sold in Quiapo) but the young one hanged-on till the day he was born. After giving birth and regaining enough strength, Celia brought the newborn in a Monastery, hoping that if the child grows there, his aswang being will be purged. Kiddo grew in the care of the loving monks. They saw Kiddo's natural talent of creating improvised things from scratch. Everything went normal until his 13th birthday, Kiddo's first transformation happened. Because of this, the monks trained Kiddo to fight his bloodlust and controlling his Aswang abilities. Kiddo decided to use his powers for the Good of others and against the Aswangs ravaging their land, and to find the whereabouts of his mother. Because of this decision, the monks reffered Kiddo to an Ermitanyo living at the foot of Mount Arayat, Apung Pio. He trained the boy to better control his abilities through meditation and through the help of the MUTYA NG SAGING,and taught him the martial Art SIKARAN (refer to http://www.sikaran.com/history.htm). And so the Adventures of Kiddo, the Hunter, started!

Drawing Post #1

I will be also posting my drawings here. So stay tuned for them. Here is my opening salvo. This is Kiddo, my original character. He is an Aswang. Me and my partner in Team Czetea, Teardrop, are planning to create a comics for our characters. This is Niño, Teardrops character. I will post more drawings soon.