GIMIK WEEK

Last week was such a busy week, which involved with my work and a lot of gimik after hours. But who wants to hear about work, eh?

JARS OF CLAY

First off, Janice and I attended the Jars of Clay concert over at Araneta Coliseum. I won a pair of ticket from RX and we headed for the venue. I honestly didn't expect to be there. I was even depressed that I waited for eight years for them to come to Manila but I couldn't go because the tickets weren't cheap. So imagine my joy when I got the tickets from the station. Even if they were General Admission tickets, I was still overjoyed.

Around 8pm, Janice and I were queued up for the Gen Admin area, when one of the MArshalls announced that not all the tickets were sold and so we could move over to the Upper Box. I was all smiles.

As we huddled into the coliseum there was some kind of confusion. I just followed Janice blindly and then I found myself standing eight rows from the stage. It was all so surreal.

Bo Sanchez introduced the event and the opening act, Barbie's Cradle, who did a quick slew of 4-5 songs. And then Jars of Clay was onstage. I was awestruck. I felt numb from head to toe.

They did an incredible set, which included Show You Love, Sunny Day,Flood, Unforgetful You, Tea and Sympathy and when the guitarist strummed the first few chords for Five Candles, I thought I was in heaven. It was as though I was floating and I was in tears...and then I realized I wasn't when I heard all the member of the jolog republic sitting behind us snigger and laugh out loud.

You do not laugh at a Jars of Clay gig, especially in the middle of Five Candle.

Goth Night

Janice is really becoming my Gimik Buddy. The following night I found myself with her walking through Ayala all the way to Underground to watch the Video Launch by My Favorite Things by The LAte ISabel. I honestly had expected to be in the middle of blackness that is the crowd, but it was all good. Dominion and two other bands opened the show.

And then they showd the video. It was a completely dark parody of the Julie Andrew song sequence in The Sound of Music. And then The Late Isabel played, complete with decapitated dolls onstage.

I'll buy their album!

Foreign Film with Teresa

Again, Janice grabbed me, along with Teresa all the way to Instituto Cervantes in Buendia to watch a Spanish film titled, Sexo por Compassion. It was easily a funny film focusing on the perils of being excessively altruistic - to the point of providing sexual gratification in the name of charity. We shot some pics. Teresa forgot her umbrella in by bag.

Company Party

Thanks to Jinx I got to attend the company party, even after I've resigned. I was under the impression that it was also gonna be a reunion of sorts for our original team, but no. Only Marilou and Em showed up. I had four bottles of beer and got drunk with food.

- Email I sent last week to the Alamat Mailing List


Message: 1
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:18:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Luis Anthony Oliveros
Subject: PLEASE...favor naman...


People of the Almighty Comics Field, here is a drawing I did of a teen spy character I created a week back. I did the line art and the colors.

Could you please give me suggestions, and advice on which area I should improve on? Any help would be much appreciated. Please be as merciless and give it to me straight (but also consider the fact that I have no Comics-related background).

Thanks!
greyweed



-And their replies:

From: "Wilson Tortosa"

Ey Luis!

I think it looks professional, considering you have no comics-related background. ;) Some points I notice is that the character's pose looks a little stiff, and his limbs look a bit thick, or is that he's supposed to be stocky in the first place? Also his feet look small in proportion to his legs. You can fix that by either slimming down his legs or making his shoes bigger.

The colors are great, although the green color of the gun doesn't look metallic, or is that a non-metallic pistol..he's a spy anyway. ;)

Hope that helped!

-Wilson


-Actually yes, IAN's a stocky Filipino kid (around 5'4 - 5'5 in height). But his legs aren't that huge, he's just wearing a pair of baggy pants. I am so in awe, this is an artist who is in charge of doing pencils for the Tomb Raider comics and he also handled the Battle of the Planets comic (starring the Gatchaman- or G-Force to us Filipinos).



From: antonio_abad@------------.com

I like it! He's got a gruffiness that makes him appealing and approachable as a character for readers to relate with. Yah I agree the gun doesn't look metallic. I liked how you approached the tattoos. The way the colors work made them really look like pigment on skin. I'm not sure what the green thing on the bag strap is.

Lastly, there's that part between the beard and the ears that i'm not sure what to make of it. Is it the jawbone? Or is it something else.

tobie


-Wow. He likes it. "Appealing and approachable." The gun is plastic so as not to tick off the metal detectors at the mall. The green thing on the strap is a button pin with a tiny microphone/camera in it. And yes, it's the jaw bone.



From: Marco Dimaano

I would advise honing your basic anatomy drawing skills (basics! Basics!) in order to make drawing poses and playing with proportions better. If your anatomy is solid, it would be no problem to make the character as stylized as possible- making hands and feet bigger, the character lankier, etc- yet still making it look 'correct'.
Also, think about the design of the character that will make him look appealing- this is more of your tastes. Giving him a sneaky expression, playing with color combinations or having him with one eye winking or in a cool pose would go a long way with making anyone seeing the pic for the first time get the impression that this is a cool character.

Keep it up, Luis! Planning to put out your own comic?

^_^


-Oh yeah, he found my greatest weakness, anatomy.


I am so humbled. Their's enough praises here to last me a lifetime, and of course the best are the constructive criticism I got.


WHOOOO!