ILLUSION Blog

Continuing along the course of my last post, I thought it would be interesting to keep venturing out on grounds that, in my case, are mostly unfamiliar. Having almost solely worked with old-school media (like graphite, charcoal, ink etc) my whole life, I never cease to be impressed when looking upon some of the digital artwork out there that illustrators put up. Joshua Zaragoza is one of those illustrators.

Since he is working with both digital painting and photo-manipulation, I don’t want to go too much further into his work, which is mainly photographies (this being an illustration-blog), but I do think that his work are worth checking out in search for inspiration.

For more pictures:

http://crispme.com/impressive-photo-manipulation-and-typography-by-joshua-zaragoza/

Kumustaka? We’re staying in the thousand island- paradise more commonly known as Philippines, and this time we’re gonna take a look at the artwork of Dan Matutina.

Dan Matutina is both a designer and illustrator, and he is based in the Philippines. Now, even though the portrait above is certainly well made and slightly realistic, the majority of Matutina’s drawings/paintings are done in a much different style. If you want a comparison, I would say that they resemble Picasso’s famous cubism, but with shapes that are a little bit closer to real life. They’re very far from the style I draw with myself, but then again – everything can be used as inspiration. And I quite like most of his pictures, especially the series of “two-head-opponents” which I have posted in the gallery bellow.

See you next time!

Ever seen Disney’s “Mulan“? Or “Tarzan“? “Droopy Dog” or “Johnny Quest“? Well, this guy was involved in all those movies and TV-series – and more.

Armand Serrano was born and raised in Quezon City, Manila. As a young man, he started working for a sub-studio of Hanna-Barbera Studios California, which was based in Manila. He later moved on, working on projects (mainly as a layout-artist) for Marvel, among others, before getting hired by Disney and moving to Florida. Today, he is working as an art-director for Sony Pictures Animation, and his portfolio is filled to the brink with artwork for major feature films (mostly environmental). I have attached some of them bellow, but if you want to see more, I would suggest you check out his website: http://www.armandserrano.com/

Moving on to the land of balot (those little eggs with duck- fetuses inside) and boxing-legend Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao: The Philippines.

Jeremy Enecio was born in Ormoc City (PH), got his BFA in illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (USA) and is currently residing as a freelance illustrator in New York City. Like Yuko Shimizu, whom we looked at earlier, we here get an illustrator who creates with the heart of his Asian roots, but with the contemporary theme of American society. Hence, the subjects in many of his drawings are taken from American pop-culture. What amazes me and immediately catches my interest, is the level of detail that has been applied to these otherwise parody- looking peaces. Take a look and make your own judgement!

For more of Jeremy Enecio’s artwork: http://www.jenecio.com/