Our Sketches and Drawings

Still in the 1980s, the influence of comics drawing really gave me the encouragement to enhance my talent in sketching and drawing. From my imagination I drew a picture of a woman that really depicted a character from famous comics drawing of that time.

At the former building of Western Philippine Colleges [now is University of Batangas] I honed my talents and even my guts to offer these kinds of stuff to some classmates and even from another department. Really the power of the songs and sketches about love and natural settings were in demand during that time maybe thirty years ago.

I could not imagine how I survived during my college days just by selling this kind of stuffs room after another. Now I realized that since then I had the talent of selling and promoting my own
products without hesitation. It was quite a lot of orders of different contemporary songs with requested designs that I have drawn all the nights. Pushing me to the extreme of needs and survival now I can say by the grace of God, I made it.

Just grabbing a ballpoint pen, it made me to recall again how to sketch of a face of an emotional woman. I'm particular about eyes's expression and lips mysterious profile. When I went to Nepal as a literacy missionary then I realized that the facial features that I was always imagined were real. Nepali women have nice chiseled nose and big eyes.

Pandemic quarantine in the Philippines started March 16, 2020. My son Paul, he is now turning 16 by December, really has the passion of anime drawing by hand. Before he was just copying some styles of anime characters until he discovered that he can make out of his own.

Through his Digital Drawing Pad, he made the above character just only to make some practice how to operate some features of his digital pad. Color combination and even intricate shadings is his forte.

This second character still doesn't have its name. It's unknown. Paul's purpose is just to challenge himself how to make a character with its frontage and back features. Making sure that the image in the front especially the costume of the character be parallel with the back image itself.