THE ART OF MEL CASIPIT

This coming Saturday November 13, 2010 will be the much awaited Komikon 2010! My very own Mukat Comic s will be there!Catch us and support the Pinoy Komiks!    Komikon 2010 Starmall Trade Hall EDSA cor Shaw Blvd Sabado, Nobyembre 13 · 10:00 AM - 7:30 PM     This is the Poster that I have done today for Komikon 2010 about the comics that  I have done so far. Printed at UP 11' x 17 "   

This coming friday, October 22-25 me together with my comics will be attending the 2nd PICCA: Philippine International Comics, Cartoons  and Animation Festival at PICCA  4th floor, CyberZone. SM Annex, SM City North EDSA. Join us and support the local conventions in the Phillippines. Part of the festival is a trade show that showcases Local Indie(Independent) comics creators like me! :) It's gonna be an exciting week! I will get to use my new digicam.  link: PICCA

This is my personal treasure, one of the my early works as a comic artist. Photocopied comics that I did when I was in college way back 2002. Hnd pa back to back kasi mahirap kausap yung mga nagseserox samin. Grabe talaga ang inpluwensya ng Jap anime sa akin kaya ito yung ngawa ko. Sarili ko lang din yung cover design, mahilig akong maglaro sa design hnd ko pa kasi alam yung Photoshop so gupit gupit sa magazine at color pencil ang gamit ko. Iniisip kong ilabas next komikon na indie, tingin nyo may bibili? hehe tingnan natin! :)

It's been a while since I last posted my caricature, been so busy with so many thing, there's the 24 hr comics challenge, work and some stuff plus the never-ending caricature request. Speaking of caricatures here are the latest caricature I recently finished. Feel free to comment and enjoy! :) this family caricature was commissioned to me by Ago a friend of mind back in PSU. I think this will be a gift. This is TL Nami Palamos, it was her birthday so her team contacted me to create the caricature as a birthday gift. This is my ever so beautiful Team Mananger Lizette Penaranda. August 1st is her birthday and this caricature is going to be our birthday gift for her. :) I hope she likes it.

It was the afternoon of June 18, 2010, Friday, me and Patrick Fernandez met up to attend the Awarding of Winners and opening Exhibit for "Mother and Child" Painting Competition at the GSIS Museum Pasay City.After the short Opening Ceremony the awarding took place. It was a great experience and I'd definitely join again.After the ceremony we headed to a Bulaluhan and drunk a couple of beers.

I recently joined the ECCA Semi-Annual Art Competition by AAP and the contest theme for 2010 is Mother and Child. I worked for a month for my entry and I wanted to finish it on time until the deadline on May 30th. I have the money to buy the materials I need, however, I am really have a limited time to paint, I can only do it during rest days and just a couple of hours during working days. I even have a calendar in front of me every time I sit down on my laptop to remind me that I need to get working, as to sometimes I get carried away when I log in to facebook.  Anyway, this blog have some pictures of my entry and the submission last may 30th at Valle Verde 1 at the ECCA museun. I was with my colleague in Pangasinan Patrick Fernandez during the submission, he went from Pangasinan to submit his own entry, It was really a great experience! I get to see the beautiful artworks from some of the artist in the Philippines! When I compared my work to some of the best that I saw, I was r...

This past few days I've been drawing caricatures for my friends and friends of my friends. They seem to like it so I guess I'm doing a great job! :)

I found a site online that I can watch the Studio Ghibli and other movies. It was really great to see movies I loved in full English dub and I really love it! It's really nice to just concentrate on the visuals instead of reading the subtitles. However, I don't mind the subtitles, I'm just saying that It's really a different experience as a whole as compared to watching and reading the subs. I already watched most of the Studio Ghibli films in the original Japanese version with subtitles, I loved the first time I watched it, and I'm instantly in love with the characters and the story and the art and the animation. It was a couple of years back, so when I searched the internet and found  the english versions, I'm so happy and watched the movies all over again. First that I watched was Spirited Away, the DVD I bought don't have the subtitled version of the movie so I didn't watched It yet.  What I love about the movie is the color and the animation as ...

I am really a fan of the Pista'y Dayat Celebration. Ever since I was a  kid I never miss attending the event. Last 2005 and 2006 we won in the sand Sculpting Competition. It was really memorable, not because of the prizes, but because of the enjoyment and the ambiance that the festival provides. I would really love to attend the fest if not for my work. However I will always be here to support the event because I love Pangasinan and I love my heritage! :)

Last day-off I went home to my hometown in Lingayen, Pangasinan to attend our local fiesta. I was not there during the main day though because I need to go to work, which is very sad. Not so sad though, because i was able to attend the opening of the art exhibit of my artist friends in Pangasinan, they are also members of the Dagupan Artist Circle and the Pangasinan Artist Group. The exhibit is titled "DakatDakat" meaning to dip oneself in water. I was invited by Patrick Fernandez in Facebook for the event, as a part of the Bangus Festival 2010 celebration in Dagupan City the Bangus capital of the world. The exhibit is showcased at Cafe Dumarc at 4pm, April 22. I was there by 5pm because I had a quick nap before going to the said exhibit. The pictures above were taken during the exhibit. Thank you very much Patrick, Boni, Jojit and the rest of the Dagupan Artist Circle for the warm welcome. After the exhibit, We were also able to have a shot of GSM blue. I was so drunk a...

Yesterday Me and my friends attended the Summer Komikon 2010 at UP Bahay ng Alumni QC Philippines. We arrived there sometime after 10am. We fell in line before entering paid P50 then finally set-up the Indie Table assigned to me, well that was the only vacant table so we took it. I sold my latest comics creation Baboy 2 as well as my old comics that includes Baboy, MLU, EDSA, and DogStyle. Present also in my table is 8 Oras of my housemate Roelito and Pinoy Komiks Rebyu by Randy Valiente the same person who wrote EDSA. There were many peolple and komiks and toys and everything, I was not able to roam around that much though because I'm stuck at my table selling my comics.At first nobody seems to find me because my table is on the far corner with a huge post blocking the view. Then a litter later people started walking by, browsing and buying my comics which made me very happy. At the end of the day only a few copies of my comics are left, Baboy2, MLU and Dogstyle were sold out!...