Merry xmas everyone! from the potato peeler

Yoshida brothers and kaiju with a shamisen

Both are related to starwars, shamisen and monsters ... my favourite things.

1.       Yoshida brothers – fantastic shamisen duo (fan art)

2.       Kaiju playing music

Greedo shot first! YEY!

no debate! Han is cool but Greedo shot first... but then again Solo is the better marksman.... this is just me and this edited picture. so I was inspired to draw a parody of things star wars....

So here is a likely scenario if Greedo did succeed. Unlike Boba, Greedo is not the carbonite freezer type, I think he is more of the Herod type, bring the head to please the needy.  

Here is Obiwan running out of battery. I don’t think the lightsaber has a self sustaining energy source. My favourite scene in episode one is when Qui Gon is kneeling and a laser wall separates him from Darth Maul. That scene is powerful, It showed his vulnerability yet at the same time his character in times of turmoil. This is just a metaphor since every jedi is like a samurai, the sword is their soul and having a fully charged spirit will make them better warriors.

This is R2’s best effort to feed Luke with broccoli.

 

This is my favourite, Darth vader crossing Abbey road with a bunch of trick-or-treaters…

The worst thing that could happen to me is when a guy will tell me “ I was supposed to give you an apprenticeship but since you killed Han then I will kill your chances as well”

old cross-hatched samurai drawings

pin press machine available at http://www.sulit.com.ph/

Five monster pins that I did….

http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/classifieds+directory/q/pin+press 

button pin press maker from 9,000 – 15,000 php (3in1) ....its a low risk investment, I need

to buy one too

Zilla the Killa shirt

     I am having a hard time figuring out the print job for a design I did a year ago that is why I had put it on hold. See, I wanted to do this in a sublimation process but my main problem is that the transfer paper available is only in A4 size. The proportions will be acceptable in an A4 transfer only if I am printing it on a toddler size shirt but I am not. The other option is to just go with the silk screen process but I don’t want waste my time making 5-7 screens, it is just too time consuming for me. Thankfully there are available DTG (direct to garment) print services, so I think this is the best solution plus I am only planning to print 20 shirts.   

So here is my design from Zazzle

This is the other draft

I am happy how this turned out to be

Here are some of my favorite graphic design works that I did.

….Especially this one…

And here are some fake games for different consoles

Balloon and bomb fight

This is an old work of mine using a sharpie and a thin pen.  

   

and this is a box design for a ukalele that I sold to a friend

my thrift store finds - Crows X Worst bust figures

Catch Crows X Worst manga series on onemanga.com

They say one indicator that you are in a third world country is when you can buy cigarettes in pieces or shampoo in sachets or there is an overload of imported surplus at almost every street. I love rummaging into thrift stores in Manila looking for good finds especially the ones with Japanese goods. Months ago a store just conveniently opened near my sisters apartment that sells Japanese surplus items including toys. Usually they have a time of the month where everything is inventory fresh but I had the geographical advantage to check their goods on a regular basis. I was always hoping to get Kaiju(giant monsters like Godzilla) items but it always has a missing appendage that ruins its rarity. During my search I have found these bust figures of Crows X Worst, one of japans best gangster manga. As you can see in the pictures below they are in immaculate condition but sadly they are just assorted. Some of them does not fit the Umehoshi series, they belong to a different collection but nonetheless on the same manga. So for the sake of sharing here is what I bought for 400 pesos (8 USD).

The snake lady yokai tattoo design

I have chosen a design for my leg….

This one is special because I am considering of getting this inked. I drew like twenty of these before I was contained. I made this one out of convenience, I have a space in my leg in between two tattoos that has a shape fit for a snake piece, but then I think it would be too common so I tried making a snake lady.  

Ok, so the story here… She is an opium dealer, the Yakuza cut both her hands because she was an accused traitor, a true snake metaphor. The gang also made a slit on her tongue and sold her to a travelling  freak show. It was a huge mistake because the circus happens to be the owned by a powerful demon that grants wishes in exchange for his foot fetish. Having no need for her legs he traded it for a snakes body and a toxic fang. A killing machine she turned out to be, a sadistic one. She devours her yakuza meal alive living him to death for a week and worst her venom disables the endorphins making its victim suffer every second of agony.

So here she is…. My baby….

Here are the other drafts ….almost the same as her, little tweaks here and there …

 I may consider this one too...a less cartoony face

Yokai tattoo designs of a sick minded neku, a gay cameleon, a killer pimp head and more...

Yōkai (妖怪, literally demon, spirit, or monster^?) are a class of preternatural creatures in Japanese folklore (wikipedia)  

Ok, but what the hell is ‘preternatural’?

The preternatural or praeternatural is that which appears outside or beyond (Latin præter) the natural. In contrast to the supernatural, preternatural phenomena are presumed to have rational explanations as yet unknown. (wikipedia)
I see…..

     I have been surfing the net searching for Yokai references for a tattoo design which I am considering of getting, in time maybe. I am basically looking for the underrated characters in Japanese folklore like more of the bakeneku (cat) and the kasa obake (umbrella ghost) and less of the oni and the hannya. Thankfully I found a lot of authentic references from pinktentacle.com that dated way back. They have Ukiyo e prints from the masters with awesome compositions of imaginative taxidermy. I was so happy that I bookmarked the whole page and started brainstorming my own yokai drawings.

      My fascination with the Yokai started when I was Growing up in the Philippines. My favourite snack the was a gelatine treat JellyAce (tm). It has a lid with colourful cartoon Illustrations of Japanese folklore, the most memorable character was the fisherman sitting on a giant turtle. Unfortunately I was not that committed to safeguard my lid collection, the company discontinued the designer lid and had a total package overhaul. Now years of being JellyAce-starved I can only Imagine what those drawings looked like, if only I had been a patient kid. So anyone in the Philippines who still has the lid PM me and we will talk about the price.

Anyways, here are some of the Yokai designs I did….. 

A ghost of a severed brothel governess that came back with a vengeance

against her scheming whores

Or a cannibalistic teenage neku girl that ate her step mother. This one has a

bizzare relationshp with her human father that is almost borderline incest.

Or a halfling Tengu Samurai that fell inlove with a princess...Wow! I think

I can come up wih a good story here.... yeah it's lame

The story of this one is like 'idle hands'. A japanese merchant with a compulsive jerk off

disorder who fell inlove with his pleasure giving hands so he cut it off. As sick minded as he is

his hands killed him and every other perverts out there.

This one is the worst Succubus ever, this is no ordinary monster, She is a She-john, a

a deceptive shemale SUCKubus! Every mans worst nightmare.... a big torn out page in every

guys book of pride.


Btw... the birds in this picture wasn't drawn by me.

A silly Yoda tattoo

     Ok, so a friend of mine requested me to draw a Yoda design on a transfer paper. His instructions were simple, keep it black gray, shading free and most importantly make it look silly. Here’s what I did.....

I was so stoked by the whole thing that I can’t take master Yoda off my head, nest thing I know is that I found myself drawing him fighting a pair of scissors. 

This is how it turned out to be....

I know it didn't turned out to be as hansome as this guy (see below), but it's worth a shot right?

Music and Animals Shirts

   It was one of those Saturdays that everything seemed to be redundant. I turned the TV on and started surfing the channels. I knew that I had seen too much TV because the level of enthusiasm I got for tuning into my favourite shows was a downer. Then I just realized that a permanent marker and a paper was conveniently left at the center table. I was doodling the whole day challenging myself to draw a hippo. But hippo’s are probably the jarjar binks of the African animal roster. Though I have heard that they have a street-cred in killing people it doesn’t change the fact that they look lame. See, if you are a kid growing up reading about the coolness of a mountain lion per se you will develop a ‘taste’ on animal awesomeness. Let’s see, mountain lion = lone hunter, puma to some, cougar to most, total badass. On the other hand, hippo = grass eater, river horse to some, semi-aquatic (too shitty to choose a permanent spot ) and lastly, a total douche. Well anyway, I thought that if I try drawing a hippo like someone famous I will have a better outcome. I didn’t think twice, put Gene Simmons on Dora the explorer and it will become Wolverine, put him on this hippo and it will make a good shirt. And so I did, and four more other animal and musician hybrids.

here is the Gene Simmons Hippo shirt

here is David Bowie as Ziggy the dog

here is Claudio Sanchez as something Wookie-like, no big effort in combining faces here

here is John Lennon as a free-love bunny

and last, Bob Marley as the Lion of Zion