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Work in progress of an illustration for an Australian wine magazine about bros drinking rosé.

Vector practice work in progress. Mid progress shot - blocking shadows and highlights, then diffusing in Photoshop for realistic (but controlled) shading reference - photo of Miki

Une vie de chat  for a local screening of this French animated movie

The weather these days.

“True nobility is being superior to your former self.”

I haven’t produced postcards in a while, I used to do it all the time. But anyway, I will be selling postcards of these artworks on Saturday, May 30, for Today x Future’s night market. See you there!

Colored Pencils on Paper, 2014.  Tof Zapanta

These works on paper are from my latest series of drawings, What the Closed Eyes See.

Better than last year's sad set (if you follow me here). This one more hopeful, but still tugging on that pessimism. My take on distance, on that popular reflex of closing your eyes when danger approaches, as if to believe that it doesn't happen if you don't see it, when actually "Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on," (Murakami, Kafka on the Shore). Everything goes on, it may not exist in your consciousness because you are not aware of it, but we all know that it still happens, and yet most of us still cling to the notion that ignorance is bliss, and, perhaps, this is not wrong. "I choose to trust you, I do not know what goes on there, and I don't want to know. I choose to close my eyes until the next thing I see is you, back here, in front of me."

I have small birthday show this Saturday, August 23, at 8pm. Drop by and say hi if you're in Manila. It's at Today x Future, a bar in Cubao, Quezon City.

CREŌ A Project Bloom Special featuring sets by: CALIPH8 NONPLUS SIMILAR OBJECTS MAJOR CHIE DMAPS + live performance by: BRGY SLUR visuals by: RIPLEY COUP D' DISQO P200 + free beer proceeds go to Bloom Arts Festival 2014 fundraising  Co-presented by Personal Space Productions -- Poster by Tof Zapanta

"She jumped on her bed for so many years, and, that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?" Jonathan Safran Foer x an old work of mine

BEHANCE PORTFOLIO REVIEW WEEK MANILA  Everything you need to know (before you go on that vacation)  Get ready! Share! -- Deadline of Submission MAY 12, 2014  Announcement of Shortlisted Creatives MAY 13-14, 2014  Portfolio Review Day MAY 18, 2014  Read carefully! Good luck! See you there 

Organizing this year's Behance Portfolio Review Week for Manila, Philippines, May 12-18, happening simultaneously with Behance Reviews around the world.  To anyone interested in participating check back at the Behance Philippines Facebook, or Twitter for updates Spread the word and ready your portfolios!

process shots of quick iPad portraits http://15minutesinheavenwithmyhand.tumblr.com

Found this inside my copy of Of Love and Other Demons. Hi @wordsandfaces, bye Gabriel Garcia Marquez

fail process step by step, got sucked in and forgot to take more shots haha visit http://15minutesinheavenwithmyhand.tumblr.com