Ang INK is accepting applicants

Reposting for my organization:

Ang INK is now accepting applications for new members this 2017. If you would like to be an official INKie, complete the following requirements:

1. Five (5) sample illustrations from your portfolio.
• Individual images should be at least 1000px on one side and be not more than 72 dpi.
• Compile all 5 images in 1 PDF. File should NOT exceed 7mb.
• PDF name should follow the format: APP2017-YourName-PORTFOLIO.

2. Three (3) illustrations based on the PBBY-Salanga Prize winning story Dalawa Kami ni Lola by Genaro Gojo Cruz
• Read the story here: https://tinyurl.com/Dalawa-Kami-ni-Lola
• Individual images should be 9”(h) x 14”(w), and should not be more than 72dpi.
• Entries do not have to be based on consecutive spreads/parts of the text. You are not required to layout/include the text in your illustrations.
• Compile ALL 3 images in ONE PDF. Total file size of the PDF should NOT exceed 5mb.
• PDF name should follow the format: APP2017-YourName.

3. Download and complete the application form https://tinyurl.com/INKAppForm2017

4. Compress ALL REQUIREMENTS as a ZIP file with the file name: APP2017-Surname-FirstName

Once you have finished the steps above, send your COMPLETE ZIP file to hello@ang-ink.org with the subject line: APP2017-YourName

DEADLINE: March 18, 2017 (Saturday), 11:59 PM
All applicants will be notified of the results through email on the first week of April. For questions and clarifications, comment below or email us at hello@ang-ink.org.

Ang INK’s website at http://ang-ink.org

Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/AngINK.org/

Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/hello_ink/

INK on Paper

Cover by Robert Alejandro

Our collaboration with Fedrigoni Asia arrived a couple of weeks ago. It’s an artbook / catalogue featuring the various special papers Fedrigoni offers.

All artworks contain or feature different paper elements.

Art by Abi Goy

Art by Frances Alvarez

Art by Al Estrella

Art by Aldy Aguirre

Art by Rex Aguilar

Art by Rommel Joson

Art by Sergio Bumatay III

Art by Abi Dayacap

This collaboration was made possible through our friends from Fedrigoni Asia. You can visit their facebook page here. Fedrigoni papers are distributed in the Philippines by Prestige Paper Products.

Pictures and Words

My friends and I gave a talk at the Philippine Literary Festival held at Raffles Makati last August 30, 2015. With me in the panel were Liza Flores, Ray Sunga, and Sergio Bumatay III. We were a bit surprised by the turnout; we actually expected maybe ten attendees tops.

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Liza Flores gave an introduction about our organization Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan and talked about her process for her recent book “My Big Sister Can See Dragons” written by Rocky Sanchez Tirona and published by Canvas. The book’s development underwent the usual process that a children’s book goes through in the Philippines, wherein a publisher commissions an illustrator to provide images for an existing story. Liza’s illustrations for the book were all large scale papercuts mounted on wood. During the book’s launch, the illustrations were exhibited at the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum.

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Sergio Bumatay talked about out his process for his book “May Darating na Trak Bukas” (literally translated as “a truck will arrive tomorrow”) written by National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario and published by Adarna House. Serj’s experience on the book was a bit different since it didn’t originate from a previously written text. Instead, Serj was asked to develop several studies that can serve as inspiration for a new story. From the studies, Adarna House chose one image for Virgilio Almario to base his text on.

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Ray Sunga narrated his personal experiences in being a children’s book illustrator, as well as his process, and his inspirations. He gave insights into what we as illustrators experience in the Philippines (notably how you can’t live on illustrating children’s books alone).

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I talked about my research on word and picture interactions in picture books as well as my learnings from a writers and illustrators workshop I attended in Bintan, Indonesia (more about this in a coming blog post). The point of my presentation was underscore our role as co-storytellers in picture books, a fact that many in the local industry may have glossed over because of the preeminence of the purely written text as primary sources of stories.

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The idea of teaching visual storytelling and visual literacy in general seems to be in its nascent stages in the Philippines. Personally, I’ve heard anecdotal evidence that parents shy away from stories that are purely pictorial or at least with very few words. I don’t have the facts as to how visual literacy is being taught in Philippine schools nowadays, but I hope illustrators will have a greater role in shaping the conversation in the future.

ANG ILUSTRADOR NG KABATAAN 2014 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS

Ang INK is now open for new members!

Poster by Borg Sinaban

Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan 2014 member applications

REQUIREMENTS

1. Five (5) sample illustrations from your portfolio.

• Individual images should at least be 1000px on one side, and should NOT be more than 72dpi, jpg or png
• Compile ALL 5 of your works in ONE pdf. Total file size of the pdf should NOT exceed 7mb.
• PDF name should follow the format: INKAPP14-yourname-portfolio
• Upload file in online application form.

2. Children’s book illustration spreads based on one of this year’s PBBY Salanga Prize

• Honorable Mention winners, Gaano Ba Kalayo Patungong Paaralan? by Genaro R. Gojo Cruz. The story can be downloaded from the PBBY website: http://www.pbby.org.ph/downloads/2014-salanga-gaano-ba-kalayo-patungong-paaralan.pdf
• -Follow this PBBY requirement: All entries must consist of three (3) illustrations that are of the same size and medium. Entries do not have to be based on consecutive spreads/parts of the text.
• -You are not required to layout/include the text in your illustrations.
• -Individual images should be 9in (h) x 14 inches (w), and should not be more than 72dpi, jpg or png
• -Compile ALL 3 images in ONE pdf. Total file size of the pdf should NOT exceed 5mb.
• -PDF name should follow the format: INKAPP14-yourname-pbby
• -Upload file in online application form.

3. Accomplished online application form: tinyurl.com/angINKapp2014

Deadline of submission is April 11, 2014, 11:59 PM

All applicants will be notified of the results through email by April 25, 2014.

Have a question? Email INK at hello@ang-ink.org 

Visit their website at http://ang-ink.org or their blog at http://thinkietank.tumblr.com

3rd World Snow in Motion

Way back in 1991, the eruption of long dormant Mount Pinatubo spewed out enough debris and particulates into the air that it lowered global temperatures. Over a hundred kilometers away in Quezon City, where I live, the sky had begun to darken by around 3 or 4pm. The following morning, the city was covered in white ash. It was as if, for the first time, there was snow in the Philippines. I was 13 years old at the time.

Many years later, I made a silent comic inspired by that little moment in history. I entered it into the 2nd Fully Booked / Neil Gaiman Graphic Fiction Competition and it didn’t win anything. Didn’t even get into the shortlist. Too bad. Boo hoo.

Anyway, a couple of months ago during one of our regular INK (Ilustrador ng Kabataan) meetings, I presented the comic, but this time with a couple of transition effects.

It’s like a very primitive motion comic. Hope you enjoy it.