Love Is (Book 1 and 2) by Puuung

  Yesterday, I got my copy of Puuung's 'Love is' illustrated book. I bought these books because it was featured in one of the best Kdrama that I have seen, W Two Worlds. I also like to have Puuung's creation. So even if this book is a bit expensive. I still ordered it. It is not available here in my country so I ordered it online.

Puuung is a popular illustrator in Grafolio, an online website that features comics illustrators in South Korea. I came to know Puuung 3 years ago. I got attracted to her drawings because I like her style in drawing characters. It is so postcard like.

Another thing that I like about Puuung's creation is that it is based on real life situations and happenings. I also like the message that her drawings convey. You don't need to spend a lot in order to show your concern, care, and love for another person. You can show your love by showing acts of love and kindness to him or her. Puuung has a facebook page and YouTube channel. To all comics and book lovers. I recommend the nice illustration book.

Arts and Other Stuffs, Things I love

   I have been a long-time member of deviantart  (an online site for any forms or art/and photography). 7 years to be exact. I love music and arts. I have a collection of drawing and sketch books, aside from my calligraphy, and hand-lettering books. I bought a glass-pen recently. It is China-made even so its not that bad. I bought it in a local arts & crafts store called The Craft Central. I have tons of art stuffs. Faberr-Castell connector paint, watercolored pencils, and pitt artists pens (Faber-Castell 24 pitt pens that I bought for a thousand bucks). I usually buy Faberr-Castell because even if they're a bit expensive, they're of good quality. For my drawing pens. I also have Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment pen (just tried it), Zig Drawing Pen, and Uni Pin Fine Line pens. Out of all the waterproof and drawing pens that I mentioned I really like the Uni pens. I even ordered a set of drawing pens. I like how they glide smoothly to my Moleskine mini-sketch notebook.

I almost took a Fine-Arts course wayback in college, I already passed the exam in Fine-Arts major in advertising design, but I chose a Science course (pre-med) instead. Still, my love for the arts didn't die. Aside from drawing, I have a few graphic drawings, I also do paper cut and crafts, polymer clay art (I like to do miniature food art, and cutesy stuffs). I already finished my Inkvember dare. The words were given by a Geeks Under Grace member in fb. You can check them out in GUK's fb page and in Artists for Christ, also another fb page group.

I admire local comics artists, namely Harvey Tolibao who owns his own studio and who's working for Marvel, Pol Medina of Pugad Baboy (Pig's Den). My brother likes his work, mostly its about local Filipino modern culture, and politics comics strips with humor added, I also like the works of Ariel Atienza, a Christian Artist who did an amazing Christian comics entitled His Story, his works before were featured in a US based newspaper, he is also one of the founding members of Komikon. Thanks to him this local comics convention is huge now. I also like his compiled works "Hand Drawn and Quartered and Other Tell-Tales", another Christian artist that I have known is Rommel Estanislao his strips ('Kokoy Kolokoy') have been appearing in a local newspaper, he is also a good polymer clay artist. He's been a guest in local tv shows featuring his works. I have met them all personally since I've been attending local comics convention before (for about 3 years, started in 2010).

I also admire foreign comics artists, like Grant Snider, Debbie Tung, Marcie Wilson etc. (You can read my previous posts about the foreign comic books that I bought before). I like their works because they show the life of an artist, poet and introvert. They exactly know my world!

If you want to check out my deviantart page. Advance thank you for visiting. Here's the link: My Deviantart Page

A Comics-ful Week

  This week I had a lot of good find and good buys. I'm happy because all of the comics that I ordered are all with me now. I have received all the Peanuts related children's books (available locally) and comic books as well. (Will do a separate post on that). The first book that I have waited for a long time was Grant Snider's work. (I have been a long time follower of his page). All his best works compiled in a book. He has this facebook page, Incidental Comics. The comic book title is The Shape of Ideas. The reviews on amazon.com were mostly positive. I like how he depicts the journey of an artist (poet, writer, cartoonist), all beautifully illustrated and shown in the book. The book is hard-bound and it is a great coffee table book. I like Mr. Snider's work. The way he draw and illustrate a person is nicely done. The price of the book is less than 1000 pesos.

The second book that I got was entitled 'Introvert Doodles' by Maureen Wilson. From the title alone, you probably know already what the book is all about. If you want to know something about the introverts you can start by reading that book.  The drawing skill of Ms. Wilson may not be like other artists who has a clean drawing lines and proportionate body shape. That's right! Her art is doodles. Reminds me of younger artists drawings. Her comics are on point.  She has a facebook page also, Introvert Doodles. I'm also a follower of her fb page.

Lastly, a local comic book entitled So Asian Comics. I like the design. I just saw their advertisement online, I ordered and voila Got it already! I just find this comics unique because it showcases the Chinese and Filipino-Chinese life. That's another reason why I want to acquire a copy of this. A Chinese culture enthusiast here! It was truly a packed comic-ful week.

Reading is truly an adventure!