Alice Dixson portrait

Licensed realtor, commercial model, beauty pageant titleholder, award-winning actress, and one of the most gorgeous faces among Filipino celebrities of any age, is there something she can't accomplish?
Initially gaining popularity in a Palmolive shampoo television commercial in the late 1980's, timeless beauty Ms. Alice Dixson represented the Philippines in the Miss International Pageant held in Japan in 1986. She went on to pursue a career in acting first in a TV sitcom, "Okay ka, Fairy ko" in the title role of the fairy Princess Chlorateam heir to the throne of Engkantasya who fell for the mortal Enteng Kabisote and adopted the human identity, Faye, to be with him.
Ms Dixson took a break from showbiz after winning Best Actress for the movie "Sambahin ang Ngalan Mo" in 1998 and went on to live with family overseas where she pursued a career in real estate as a licensed realtor in Florida, USA and then in Canada.
She came back to the Philippines around 2011 and her career in the local entertainment industry has gotten stronger and she has been busy with one project after another ever since.
One of her more recognizable features is how young she appears among her contemporaries as she has maintained her classy, sexy, and elegant looks and her sweet, down-to-earth demeanor.

I feel that I didn't quite get the portrait right because it is hardly recognizable nor spot-on. I know my sketch is close but the final product is off especially around the eyes. I'll make another attempt at this soon.

Bulla SSJ 3 vs Tora Commission

This is another Dragon Ball Z fan art commission.
It's a series of covers of a more mature Bulla transforming to a Super Saiyan level 3.
These were used a comic book covers for a fan manga that pits Bulla against Tora.
The fan manga were done months apart and I had used different apps for each one. The first one was inked on Retas Stylos and colored on Photoshop and the second one with Bulla fully transformed was done completely on Paint Tool SAI.
Dragon Ball characters are some of my favorites and it is always enjoyable to draw them and get paid doing it.

 

Golden Girl Volume 1 Color Commission

Comic book art comes in three steps, pencils, inks, and color and these are done by separate artists for each step. The process works better that way as each artist focuses on their part only and ensures that quality work is done and deadlines are met.
These days when most artists use digital media which is also preferred by clients and publishers there are a lot of artists can do all steps especially for self-published or indie books.
As a freelance comic book illustrator I mostly just do pencil and ink digitally and only color pin-ups, covers or my own non-commissioned art. It's a breather when I get to do just colors for a project or commission because I get to practice a different aspect of creativity by bringing to life somebody else's work. Being at the finishing part of completing a comic book art, I get to do one of the most enjoyable things about being an artist -collaboration. You're mostly free to interpret a piece according to how it is scripted just as you would be at the line art stage but at this point you'd have to note what the penciler's vision was as much as interpreting the writer's script.
This collab with Healthy Fetish was of somewhat adult-themed superhero parody nature but does not contain nudity or sexual themes. You may get your copy of the complete volume 1 on itch.io.

 

 

 

 

Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle Fan Art Commission

This commission was fun to do as a former animator at Toei. Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle was one of the earliest movies in the Dragon Ball series.I think I haven't even heard of or seen Dragon Ball when it came out.
I honestly don't remember the anime much and I don't know if the scene I was commissioned to do was even part of the original, although any chance I could get to draw Dragon Ball characters is always enjoyable and getting paid to do it is a good bonus.

Princess Frog Commission

The Frog Prince is probably one of the most recognizable fairy tales. One of the most familiar version is from the written stories from the Brothers Grimm.
It is a classic that has been told and retold in so many different ways but what could be the original is the German folk tale which translates as "The Iron Heinrich" or "The Frog King".
There have been numerous modern media adaptations throughout the history of film and theatre, most notable of which are "The Tale of the Frog Prince",the first story presented by Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre in 1982, The Frog Prince ,a 1986 film starring John Paragon and Aileen Quinn, and The Princess and the Frog, a 2009 Disney animated film, loosely based on the 2002 novel The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker.

The version I was commission to draw is a storybook-type comic where the enchanted Frog does not turn into a king or prince after getting a kiss from the beautiful maiden but instead casts a spell that turns the kisser into a frog-like creature.
This is one of the first book art commission that I did line work completely on Paint Tool SAI and started getting used to using it instead of Photoshop for sketching and inking.
I did colors for the cover but got help from my good friend and former student Edwin Domingo for colors on interior art.