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Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Nothing else matters - Metallica

This song...

I have to speak vaguely about this but there was a morning in 2002 in Chicago when I finally got to do something that I had been dreaming about doing for my entire like. It was a lovely fall morning. When I got in the car and started driving this song came on the radio.

As I drove, tears ran down my face.

Never give up my friends.

By the way, I based this drawing on a photo of the lovely Jing Yu. Instagram @yuki_injo

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After Egon Schiele

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Egon Schiele was the bad boy of European art but he drew like an angel. Redrawing his art is a double edged sword. I learn so much from his drawing but I am forever humbled by his genius. He created masterpieces while still in his teens. He gave us nearly 4000 works of art and then he died tragically at 28. Damn.

After Egon Schiele

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Dreaming woman by Egon Schiele

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Daydream

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

From my morning drawing. I tried posting this on Instagram and I got an immediate full screen message telling me to delete it or else!

Community guidelines..

Kind of funny.

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A new chance

Ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2014

I was in a lecture once and the professor asked,

"Why are babies young?"

That's a pretty deep question if you think about it.

How is it that the weathered old cells of two adults can come together to create a fresh new life?

The professor went on to give a scientific explaination which to me just lost the plot.

To me, conception is when one reality ends and a new reality begins.

A new reality and a new chance.

A new miracle.

The next generation

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I once knew a girl named Bambi

Pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

Lather - The Jefferson Airplane

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"Hijos Del Sol" - Hermanos Gutierrez

Black Sharpie on manila paper

Miami 2010

I lived in Miami for a few years. I rented a small apartment right on the bay about two blocks from the ocean. Iguanas and land crabs used to wander around the yard. Beat that!

Bay Harbor beach

Miami has some of the most lovely beaches on earth. White sands and tropical blue water. I used to hang out at beach cafes sipping esspresso coffee while watching lovely people walk by.

And I drew. I drew a lot.

Back then my only art tool was the black sharpie.

I was into drawing these guilts.

Here's two more.

Black Sharpie on paper

Miami 2009

Black Sharpie on paper

Miami 2009

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8B pencil

Calbayo City 2024

I know this drawing is finished because it's dinner time.

Btw, I love Filipino food.

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A young woman with bangs

8B pencil and finger rubbing

Calbayog City 2024

Bangs make me weak at the knees.

I keep tinkering with this drawing. This is where its at now.

Here's the initial sketch

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Darkness blackens even the night

8B pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Daily drawing.

I am happiest when my fingers and eraser become black with pencil lead.

Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

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She come in colors

Colored pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Last night I took my seven year old son into town to get a snack. Along the way I stopped off at an ATM machine to get some cash.

When I got the money my son said to me,

"You mean you can just get money from a machine?!?!"

"Yah," I said not really thinking about it.

"Then why don't homeless people do that!!!" he asked in astonishment.

I started to answer him and then I remembered that thats basically what the government does....

I stopped walking and looked up into the sky.

Waiting for an answer that didn't come.

Calbayog City 2024

She comes in colors - Love

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Que Vida?

Colored pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Que Vida?

What life?

I drew this this morning, and all the while, I kept checking the terrible news. The Middle East is plunging into war.

And that, my friends, is why I and my family are on the other side of the planet.

Hiding.

Jeesh...

Que Vida - Love

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End of the night

8B pencil in my watercolor moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

A friend of mine once told me that at any given moment we are everything that we have ever been, plus that little bit of what we are at that moment.

I think about that often.

End of the Night - The Doors

Take the highway to the end of the night End of the night, end of the night Take a journey to the bright midnight End of the night, end of the night

Realms of bliss, realms of light Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to the endless night End of the night, end of the night

Jim Morrison

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Orange skies - Arthur Lee and Love

4B pencil on paper

Calbalog City 2024

Sometimes, there is a moment when the drawing comes alive..

Like magic. Like life itself. Fragile magic.

Sometimes just one more line and the drawing dies.

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Black sharpie in my moleskin

Earwax cafe Chicago, 2000

Is the Earwax cafe still open? Anyone in Chicago? I used to go there and drink esspresso coffee and doodle in my moleskin. Sipping a warm cup of coffee while just outside the window there'd be a roaring cold midwestern blizzard. I loved Chicago.

Earwax Cafe, Chicago

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Black sharpie on paper

Monrovia 1996

I drew this drawing what seems like a lifetime ago in 1996. At the time I was one year free from alcohol. I had no idea what the future held for me but I can remember the relief I felt as I drew seeing that my hand had once again become steady. Tears of joy in my eyes.

I met my wife ten years later.

Today we live on an island in a big old two story building that we bought. Downstairs, we run a store that gives us our daily bread. We sleep upstairs, my wife, our two kids, and myself, all of us piled together on a big bed. Filipino style. It's fun.

Calbayog City 2024

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Cast your fate to the wind

Cast your fate to the wind - Shelby Flint

"The empty sky is my best friend."

Occationally in this dear life there comes a moment when we can either sit tight and watch, or stand up and throw ourselves head long into the chaos.

Daily drawing

4B pencil on watercolor paper

Calbayog City, Philippines, 2024

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Red and black pen, blue watercolor, on manila paper

Los Angeles 2014

When I was a boy my older brother taught me how to make pancakes. We used to wake up early Sunday mornings and make pancakes while my parents slept. In Los Angeles California.

Now, a life time later, I fix pancakes for my kids. Every Sunday. On a small island in the Philippines. On the orher side of the Earth.

They have no idea why I smile.

Life is OK.

Calbyog City 2024

Red and black pen in my Moleskin

Arizona 2010