Crown of Fire

“Twelve years ago, they had been small, and the ring of flowers that Ty Lee had woven into Azula's hair had meant more than any crown, honor, or victory. Before Ty Lee had learned the concept of tributes, she had made oaths of friendship and love.”

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I took one of the thumbnails from the previous post into a final painting. Whew! The written exerpt above is from this beautiful piece from one of the beautiful minds I've gotten to know around the Interwebs. The text actually came first and it's what inspired me to create this image after reading it.

StrangeLit Book Launch

I am so proud of my good friend, WilJ, for having published his first e-book. I'm just so happy that he was able to take the steps in order to make time for his craft. (We were in the same Business Economics program back in college, and he is actually in a corporate managerial day job at present!)

What you love, you must love now :)
Bit of info:

PS. Very out of character for me, but yes, because I'm such a good friend, the lovey-dovey artwork is c/o me. Heh.

"Harvesting Nightblooms" is a YA paranormal romance about a girl who wakes up in a coffin wearing her prom dress, only to find out that she has somehow slipped into another world.

Points for showmanship lol

Fanboys and fangurls. Jk hahaha

My notes in designing the cover ;)

a quick li'l extra color sketch for the event.

Kaysal

This was something I dreamed about. Reckon it was my brain trying to process and archive the structures I saw in Istanbul but it got mixed up with some of the colonial Baroque of old Manila. I'm a lucid dreamer and it's nice when I dream of cities and can walk around them xD

Also sketched some characters as an afterthought. They're the acrobats (off-duty) in the above scenes.

For the Ocean

Sigrid loves to explore the rocky coastlines and caves of her hometown, looking for slugs, shellfish, and barnacles. "It's research!" she protests, no matter how many times her parents tell her to stop getting her sweaters and leggings muddy. She is relentless about becoming a marine biologist.

One day she meets Nimue, a water elemental.

...or a selkie, or a rusalka, or a mermaid depending on where you're from. Well, it's folklore so I allowed myself some creative fact-blurring.