Carnet de Voyage, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Oh, right, I am in Clermont-Ferrand right now participating in Carnet de Voyage, a travel art show. It's the first time for me to show my comics work to people - in person - who are not my editor (duh) or my close friends. I have met many nice (and cute and pretty and handsome and funny) people here just on the first two days...

Anyway, to see some photos and get some updates, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10106011555651101.1073741847.2065555&type=1&l=59bf341026

Halloween 2014

a significant portion of these were done under severe iritis on my left eye... arg...

American (hand) football and B & W animals

two completely unrelated doodles of August...

life is a beach

family portrait

arts fun with kids (I meant, art is fun especially when done with kids)

While in the Philippines this May, I also did these (see photos) with my non-adult friends quite a few times. I L~O~V~E~ doing fun and creative things (or, as 5-yr-old Araw calls them, "project!" ^_^) with kids. They help me see, perceive, and imagine some truly awesome things.

p.s. I'm not being gender-biased; That house (complex) really is FULL OF boys :p

sketchbook while traveling

This June and July, I left the place where I currently live (Guam) for the place where my spouse grew up (Metro Manila, Philippines) and the place where I was born and raised (Taiwan) for about six weeks - 1 month in the Philippines and 2 weeks in Taiwan. I guess you can call this "traveling." When I travel (and actually, even when I'm not traveling), there's always a sketchbook and pens in my backpack. I hesitate to call what's in my sketchbook "travel sketches" because most of them aren't really sketches; they are just doodles. I mean, while typical "travel sketches" contain drawings OF the things seen during the trip, the pictures in my sketchbook do not. These drawings in my sketchbook could come from:
(1) me playing ("experimenting" sounds too serious) with a new pen
(2) me trying to create/design characters for a comics story I'm making
(3) yes, things I see during the trip
(4) something that reflects my moods or thoughts over something that happens during the trip
(5) a memory, or an idea that binds the present and the past, that is probably triggered by something that happens during the trip
(6) a memory, or an idea that binds the present and the past, that is probably triggered by something that happens during the trip but not IN the trip. For example, while I was in the Philippines, I called my family in Taiwan and heard news that affected me emotionally, and so the next thing I drew in my sketch book was about me reflecting on the news and my Taiwanese family and had nothing to do with the Philippines.
(5) and (6) are really nothing special and quite natural: We travels with our past. Let's say you'll fly to Mars tomorrow; while you are on Mars and see and experience all the Martian things, you will also definitely think about Earth and your family, friends, and lover(s), or even enemies sometimes, no?

Anyway, here they are: