January Makers PH‘s first bazaar this year will be on Saturday! We’re joining Sticker Con MNL 2018 at Bayanihan Center. We’ll be releasing new designs for this con. Hope you could visit us. ♥
Portfolio
After two years, I finally made a portfolio page for my artworks!
Click here to see my flower & portrait works.
I am also open for commissions! Please email me at suffph@gmail.com ♥
Society 6
As said in my previous blog post, I’ll describe each website in detail.
So what is society 6?
My Society 6 shop. ♥
Society 6 was the first e-commerce website that I first registered with. I heard about it through Youtube. I found out that you could have your artworks printed in their 30+ available products. You just need to pay $1 to become a registered artist/seller.
PROS/CONS
Some of my artworks.
Edit info page.
Uploading an artwork takes a bit of time, although I’m not sure if its just my internet at home. The photo above shows the next page once you’ve uploaded your artwork. Even typing the title, tags, and description has a bit of typing lag/delay. It’s weird!
Create products page.
From there you could adjust the prices for the art print, framed art print, and canvas prints. But you can’t adjust the prices anywhere else. To make your artwork available to their other products, you need to edit and resize it to the required dimensions. It can take a bit of time to get used to this, but when you finally upload your work it’s rewarding in a weird way.
Upload your artwork on different products like notebooks, bags, clocks, etc.
You can find templates for society 6 products on their website or online from other people. Some products that I’d want to try next time are the backpacks & duffle bags. I’m not sure yet how my flowers would look on those products! Haha.
My notebooks. ♥
Another cool thing about Society 6 is that sometimes they offer free shipping! They’re the most frequent website that offers this promo. They also have different promos every other week so be sure to check the site out.
Overall I’m happy with Society 6. By uploading my artworks, I get a bit of passive income that goes straight to my paypal account every end of the month. I also get to improve my photoshop skills by editing my artworks and learning new techniques to make my workflow faster.
The only thing left is to market myself more. HAHA.
Please check out my Society 6 shop if you want my art. ♥
Sickness
So sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve been sick twice already this month. One was the week long fever, and currently I have coughs. Maybe because of fatigue or the weather, I don’t know. I only know that I need to be healthier. I still have a lot of things to talk about, but I need to rest first. So see you soon, blog. I’ll come back.
Ragnarok Addiction
Suffrie x Rainee forever ♥
Last year, it was announced that the first MMORPG in the Philippines will return. Ragnarok Online opened its servers once again. Obviously, I made fanarts.
During my marker phase. ♥ I drew differently back then!
I’ve already mentioned my addiction to Ragnarok from this post. So, obviously we (those on the cover image) hardcore played the game. It was our first time to play together on an official server though! I don’t think I’ve mentioned here before, but I met Inggo at RF Online instead of Ragnarok. It was also a good thing that are chosen jobs are perfect for each other! ♥
Full Support Priestess & Agi/Dex Hunter. ♥
The 3rd jobs: Ranger & Arch Bishop.
I’ve also mentioned this on Instagram. I think that you need to be obsessed with something in order to improve your art. I’ve accumulated a ton of fanart because I was this obsessed with this game! If I would compare my artwork from 2003 to now, I could say that there really was an improvement on everything: anatomy, color selection, inking, etc. Not the best, but there’s personal improvement.
Left: Watercolor practice | Right: Color pencil practice.
These were some requests from my former guildmates on Fenrir server.
I would also like to note that the watercolor pieces were made with canson paper and prang watercolors. They’re the student grade representatives for watercolor and I still love using them! I don’t have to worry about anything, I just had to create. ♥
And I think I have to draw more with this style. I still need improvement!
InPrnt
As said in my previous blog post, I’ll try to describe these sites in detail.
So what is inprnt?
My InPrnt shop.
From their website:
Since our founding in 2006, INPRNT has worked to help artists spend more time doing what they love by producing the highest quality art prints from start to finish. We fulfill their orders with care and professionalism, including world-class printing, shipping and customer service.
Something unique about this site is that you after you register, you’ll need to be approved by the Inrprnt community before you could sell your works. You could also join the community by invitation from approved members. They get an invite every month.
Pros / CONs
Once approved by the community, its very easy to get started. You just need to click the blue icon above to add a new print. See below:
Adding a new print is easy. Just follow the instructions on the right for the file requirements.
You could also set the pricing for your products.
You could also check the additional products if you want to sell them on different products asides from art prints. They have a limited selection compared to its counterparts, but I really like the simplicity of this website. You could also set promo codes or discounts for your followers.
I also like the look of my shop. It looks so clean and organized. ♥
My art prints.
The framed art print gallery looks so nice. ♥
Art cards. ♥
Please check out my inprnt shop if you want my art prints. ♥
Ragnarok Online – Marker process
I’ve been digging around my external hard drive and found some photos that I haven’t shared yet. These are my work in progress / process photos of a fanart that I did years ago. How old? Around 4 years.
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before on my blog. During my teenage years, I’ve been obsessed with the MMORPG Ragnarok Online. I played in the official Philippine Ragnarok Online servers from 2003 – 2007 (Fenrir server represent!) and played at private servers from 2007 onward. At around 2011 or 2012, I played with my friends from another game called Fantasy Earth Zero on a private server after FEZ closed down. These are our characters from the said private server:
Sketch! ♥
From upper left: Vorg (Royal guard), Kharn (Sura), Lhaikz (Geneticist), me (Arch bishop), Lower left: Melt (Geneticist)
Right of me: Pants (Sorcerer), Below me: Fols (Guillotine Cross)
Inked version. I used my leftover unipins from college.
You have to check your inking pens first if they’re compatible with markers. Some pens bleed when used with markers. I learned that the hard way huhu. I also use various thickness for the unipins namely: 0.05, 0.1, and 0.3. 0.05 is the hardest to find.
I dunno what happened to the fur HAHA.
It’s either lack of skill or laziness.
Coloring process. I always start with flesh tones first.
During our third year, we had an interior design class that required our plates to be rendered in markers instead of watercolors. I only had zig kurecolor and shin han touch markers back then (and a limited color palette for interiors) because they were expensive. After the said class though, I still collected them and branched out to flesh tones and other colors. It was also during that time that a local store named Fullybooked started selling the Letraset Pro and Tria markers.
I also worked from right to left because I’m left-handed. (with a handkerchief because of sweaty palm)
Doing all the same colors will also save time.
Close-ups. Even though Melt & Lhaikz were the same class, they had different color schemes. (Because its a private server lol).
Lhaikz & I. They did that pose because Fols’ headgear was a bunnyband.
I think it was only Pants and I that had the original Ragnarok colors. The others customized theirs.
Sometimes I use a very light violet for shadows. I think this was Mauve Violet – Touch marker.
Finished! ♥
From what I remember, this was my first artwork that I did with a lot of people on it. Although not anatomically correct, I still had fun. My friends also liked this image too. They’re been asking recently if I could make another one soon. Maybe I should? If I have time. I’m not sure if I’ll use markers or watercolor, though!
Planting my digital garden
#Real talk: being a freelancer is hard. I’m currently juggling my interior design projects, making new artworks, and selling it through bazaars. But I’d like to think that I’m planting all of my “seeds” in my imaginary art garden by doing everything that I love. Three of those “seeds” are my Society 6 , Redbubble , and Inprnt accounts.
So what are these sites?
These are e-commerce websites that will do the most of the work for you (printing, production, delivery, and customer sales service). All you have to do is register & upload your artwork to their websites. You can customize them into art prints, pillow cases, phone cases, and a lot more products.
Hustle kahit Hassle.
Since I can’t do international shipping for now, these e-commerce sites help me with selling my artworks online. I get a profit every time customers buy from my online shops. And, well, since these e-commerce websites do most of the work, they get a percentage of profit for every item sold.
In a way, I’m grateful that I tried these e-commerce websites. I got to improve my Adobe Photoshop skills preparing my artworks into their different products. Although preparing my artworks for printing takes a bit of time, it’s a small matter since I’m also fast with photoshop. And once you upload it, you just wait for it to give you passive income. I’ll write a separate blog post for each website soon. ♥
I do hope these seeds will bloom soon. ♥
I’m planning on making new products this year so I could sell them locally through bazaars. I hope I could make this come true!
Unit B Mural
A few months ago, I was commissioned to paint a mural for a cafe somewhere in Mandaluyong. Feeling confident because of my experience with my interior project (that I still haven’t blogged about!), I accepted the offer HAHA.
This is my first commission for a mural. I was referred by Inggo’s officemate’s bestfriend to her officemate who planned on opening a cafe soon. Since mural means it involves painting on walls, I can’t use watercolor! Acrylic paint is the best medium for this since its water-resistant. I bought my acrylics and paint brushes at Deovir the night before.
Details. ♥
Before everything else, I asked their requirements first. They wanted flowers for their wall that is around 4.8m (w) x 2.4m (h). I did mock proposals with photoshop so they could approve the final design. After that, we scheduled the painting day. I was supposed to have an assistant that day, but she backed out HAHA.
The final design was supposed to be around 75% lineart and 25% colored flowers. That’s the reason why I started with the lineart first. But then they changed their minds when they saw how one flower would look when colored.
Progress. ♥
Acrylic paint, water, and lots of patience. ♥
The top part was hard to paint. I had to stand on the step ladder while holding the brush with my left hand, while my right hand holds a paper plate with paint & a cup filled with water.
I found it amusing that even though this is acrylic, my style of painting still looked a lot like watercolor. Maybe it’s because I still used water for this ? I liked the effect though! And the clients liked it too. ♥
The daughter’s artworks. ♥
During the times when I was resting, I offered to teach the client’s daughters to paint flowers on the wall. When they finished, I painted the lineart on top to make it uniform with the rest of the mural. The left was done by the eldest daughter and the right by the youngest. I loved how different the flowers looked. ♥ I feel like they have the talent to be artists someday too. Don’t you think?
Done! ♥
I finished the mural around 9pm in the evening. Did I mention that they planned on opening the next day? HAHA. I’m glad that I finished it on time! This was a tiring but fun experience. I would love to do it again! Thank you again to Diane for the referral. And thank you to my clients for the trust! ♥
Unit B is now open! They’re located at #69 A.T. Reyes Street, Mandaluyong City.
Art Tambay
A few weeks ago, we had an impromptu art tambay at Banawe. It was composed of me, Aira, and my block mates from college Ruth and Hannah.
Messy table!
I used the paper that I got from Katya. Thank you again for the paper samples!
Pictured below are some artworks that I did with my hue&ai #NoPaintNoGain watercolor pad. I was still testing out some techniques with this paper.
Experimenting with blooms. I like the bloom effects with this paper. ♥
This is what happens when I paint without a reference. I enjoy too much and forgot about everything else. HAHA. This was supposed to be white!
Hannah & Suff
Aira & Ruth
We had two more art tambays after this one last December. It’s great to meet up with friends to catch up and paint. ♥ I hope we could arrange another one this January!