Traces of Joy website is up!

www.chalklinepictures.com
 We're going to slowly update with additional content every week.
Trailer to follow soon!
more media posting up soon and how!
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Capn Amurika

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Comic strip Mock Rocket

It's been a while since I've made a comic strip.
A lil straight forward gag... with a few randomness.
Just watched the Rocketeer again.. The same director directed the new Captain America flick, and it has a old school pulpy feel , whic you definitely see similarities between the two from what I've partially seen.

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doodlin

No idea why  i started doodling mma fighter chris leben... and er.. other random people... not so random on the right :P

found a kick as brush mix that reinacts watercolor, really great to sketch in colors.. i forget which artist i admired, but they use soft coloring to layer in detail.. there's a sense of extra realism that you get from that sort of shading.
and then at the end you use sharper and sharper brushes for detail..
oh rite.. 
Amazing artist. worked on a few feature films 
great layout artist, great sense of color and form...


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elephant photoshop sketch

from reference.
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Pen andink doodle.

There's something about the richness an quality of the stroke
scratching on paper is therapeutic.
I love analyzing how various comic artists ink their work. I've tried
brush but don't prefer it as my main tool. It's almost too graceful?
There's a scratchy shake in the nib that I appreciate.
Akita toriyama has fun pen work as do many manga artists. Old school
line artists like albrecht durer is azing to look at, how they only
use thickness of line to describe volume without shading.
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i'm in a fashion show! Bwa ha!


well, sorta,
My face will be plastered on a wall for a photo art show at the Fashion Arts at 99 sudbury
st. in toronto on the 29th of April.


A year ago I met the wonderful photographer Stef Kloibhofer (I love saying her full name :P)
who was finishing her Masters in Photography and for her thesis took pictures of dual identities of Canadians of different heritage.

http://fashionarttoronto.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/meet-the-photographer-stephanie-kloibhofer/
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Jolly Melancholies playing before Brown Balls at Factory Theatre!






Apparently my black and white short film , Jolly Melancholies
is going to be screening in the lobby during the theatre run
of Brown Balls at Factory Theatre in Toronto.

here's Fu-Gen's Brown Balls site: http://fu-gen.org/current-season/brown-balls/
and Factor Theatre: http://www.factorytheatre.ca/

This is a double honour for me since I screened the film at Reel Asian two years ago and my old high school friend Byron Abalos (who has been finding great success in theatre and acting) is the creator of the play.

here's a little exerpt from the fu- GEN website on what his film is about:
FU-GEN WEBSITE BROWN BALLS
"I’ve been working on this play for about 5 years now and I’ve had some wonderful help on the way from the Ontario Arts Council, Cahoots Theatre Company, Carlos Bulosan Theatre and, of course, fu-GEN. In that time, it has completely transformed. Originally, it was a play for my ‘peeps.’ It was about friendship, nostalgia and old school R & B music. It was about my feelings growing up Filipino in Toronto. I wanted to write a feel good play because there’s so much crap in the world that some times you just want to laugh. But now, with the help of some friends, a special fiancé, gifted actors, and some of the best dramaturges I know, it’s become something I couldn’t have expected. My vision for Brown Balls has expanded. Now, it’s about the experience of Asian-Canadian men - not just Filipinos - in North America. It’s about gender, race, power and hegemony – not just about sex.

My goal is to take the audience for a ride. At first, I want them to laugh their asses off. But in the end, I hope that they can look at their selves and the people around them in a very different way. "
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