Art and reading as a hobby

They say that art is a diverse range of human activities and the product of those activities. Art has many branches like painting, sculpture, photography and other visual media. Music, dancing, film making are also considered as an art. I can say that I'm a man of art. I love art, in a way that I was born to become an artist (lol).

In this blog I would like to share my hobby/passion/interest or what so ever you may call it about art. I can say that I am good at drawing. I tried to make my own comic book and I'll try feature it next time. Other form of art that I usually love to do are toy photography, photo editing and music related art. 

This is my 1st time to do inking as well as adding colors to my work. I used Adobe Photoshop for the touch ups.

One of my master piece

I would just like to tease you on my work hahaha. You know the irony here is that I'm not a Multimedia Art major. I'm a proud marketing student! At first I didn't find it useful but as years passed by I can tell it to everyone that being artistic is one of unique selling proposition. Hopefully I'll find a job that can fully utilize my skills especially in advertising. Most of my ideas came from comic books and web sites that I find interesting. Obviously I also love reading stuff and after that I'll try to think of an idea base from what I read. I'll end this for now and I hope you will wait for my other works :)

Strike a pose!
sample of an Articulated Comic Book Art

Marvel Avengers Alliance (Product)

Obviously I'm a big fan of Marvel. So everytime I saw another new Marvel product or even game I always check it out. One of the existing game of Marvel that I'm currently playing is the Marvel Avengers Alliance (Sounds Awesome right?). The good thing here is it is free to play and you can get access it from Facebook.

As an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., your job is to assemble and lead a team of heroes to keep New York City safe from an unknown threat. Recruit your friends as Allies to increase your power and save the world from super villains in the newest Facebook RPG, Marvel: Avengers Alliance. So basically you can choose different heroes from different Marvel teams like the Avengers, X-men, Fantastic 4 and many more.

You can also customize your agent by adding weapons, adding iso-8 to increase the agent's stats, changing the uniform class and other. Here in the Philippines there are many MAA players and we even managed to go up to top 10 players. MAA is worth a try guys. If you have idle time you can check this awesome game and experience fighting with the coolest heroes.

What to pick for july 3? (Product)

Don't know what Marvel comics to pick this coming week? Try to check this out.

AVENGERS AI #1 

AVENGERS #15 INF

DAREDEVIL DARK NIGHTS #2 (OF 8) 

DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL #1 (OF 4) 

GUARDIANS OF GALAXY TOMORROWS AVENGERS #1 

IRON MAN #12 NOW 

RED SHE-HULK #67 NOW 

SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN #1 NOW 

THUNDERBOLTS #12 NOW 

VENOM #37 

WHAT IF AVX #1 (OF 4) X-MEN LEGACY #13 NOW

I think the best one to pick this coming week is "The Superior foes of Spider-Man". Since Superior Spider-man is now getting a boost, I guess all Spidey fans will get this one. This comic book focuses on the villains encountered by Spider- Man (Otto Octavius) which gave the readers a paradigm shift from the late Spider-man (Peter Parker). For more info you can go to the nearest comic book store or you can also check www.comicxhub.com for more details.

Comicx Hub (Services)

Don't know where to get the latest comic book in town? Tired of going to mall and searching for new issues of your favorite super hero series? Well the Comicx Hub is the answer to your problem!

Nowadays, people tend to spend their time surfing the net and some of them find it burdensome to go out and pick their comics. Comicx Hub is the country's largest and first online shopping website for Comics, Toys & Collectibles. In stock are thousands of back issue comic books, hard cover graphic novels and trade paperbacks from a wide variety of international and local comic book publishers in various comic eras.

So how this thing works? Basically you can go visit their website at www.comicxhub.com  and you can see the different products they offer. Each week they provide new releases and once you order your comics should get to you from Next Day to 2 to 3 days if within Metro Manila and 3 to 5 days within Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.  

Off course they want customers to provide their customers with fast and reasonable rates of shipping (sometimes free) that's why they have in their wing some of the best door to door delivery like LBC, 2Go and DHL. For the payment you can choose from Credit Cards to PayPal accounts, Bank Deposits and In Store Pick up. They even have a facility that allows you to use your ATM cards for payment! 

A panoramic view of the store
photo by Lawrence Sol Cruz

You can also go to their offline store at 3F Bloomingdale Plaza, Shaw Blvd., Brgy Kapitolyo, 1603 Pasig and for sure you'll find it amazing because of the nerdy and geeky stuff. So what are you waiting for? Go grab some and tell your friends that, "I got mine online!"

LIKE THEM ON FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/COMICXHUB

Superior Spider-Man

The New Superior Spider-man! wait... new Spider-man???

Tired of hearing bad rumors about the death of Peter Parker? Is he Amazing literally? or the so called Superior Spider-Man will steal the spot light from Peter?

As we can remember Peter Parker switch bodies with the dying Otto Octavius. Otto schemes succeed but the writer of ASM 700 (Dan Slott) received a lot of negative feedback. Is it a good move for Marvel, giving a new twist for their most popular character of their company? What can I say? Everybody loves Peter as Spidey,therefore, fans are too angry about the outcome. Going back, Lots of changes can be seen from this book. They give spidey what spidey should had decades ago. Finally we can see the full potential of Spider-Man in terms of his scientific works. We can see spider-bots all around the new york in order to give Spidey a view of the city.

Spider- signal

Deep inside Peter Parker's body (or Otto, Whatever) is the real Peter Parker's consciousness. Though no one can hear him but we readers can see it :))

The purpose of this spider-signal is just like the hipster batman's bat-signal. But on the first he doesn't seems to like the concept. After some long conversations and aerial battle with Vulture, We can see that the spider-signal comes in handy.

It's like a Batista bomb from the sky!!! It's very awesome move from spidey that we haven't seen from the previous spidey. Here he literally used his mind in order to beat vulture. Thhe downside of this move is the impression of the people to Spider-man. Carlie Cooper (Peter's ex-girlfriend) already seen the gigantic changes of Spider-man. Will she find out the truth? Well let's find out on the upcoming issues.


But for me the most big change for this character is...

he shoots and killed Massacre. It can be good or bad but for me it is good so evil will end. This book is worth a try. It gives me an intense sensation while turning the next page. So for those who can read this... Amazing or Superior?

The Wolverine sneak peak

The Wolverine, directed by James Mangold, starring Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima and Brian Tee. It is one of the most awaited movie of Marvel this year. Wolverine is Marvel's Fan favorite X-men. Are you guys excited to watch his second film? I don't want you to spoil about the details but there updated pictures and the trailer as well. Movie will be release on July 26, 2013.

Here are some added new photos from the set. Thanks to EW.com

Basically it takes place in modern Japan

So this is viper. Yay or Nay?
and Wolverine in suits... I wish there's something more.

and here's the trailer we've been waiting for