Never Knows Best

The Repurposed porfolio/artblog of Dylan Briones, an illustrator,visual artist and graphic designer from Cebu, ph. For commissions mail [email protected]

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What’s good, Tumblr?  Been awhile~  Had a lot of things on my mind but couldn't decide whether to write or draw them. So here it is, a blog comic. The first of many hopefully. With regards to how personal all this is, well I remember something Chris Do said about "Real confidence is being comfortable with your vulnerability" and that really stuck to me while I was drawing this. Honesty above all else. Maybe I'll do more of these in the coming days. Stray thoughts and musings about things. Peace

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Asa mo dapit nag train?

Our Balintawak Club used to be in Banilad, GM Bobby did some sessions with us in the Ayala Grounds. We moved it to Grandmaster Nick’s place in Pardo

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“A Place to Stay” My piece for a Ghibli Tribute exhibit for our little collective in Cebu. We were assigned Ghibli movies randomly and I got Howl’s Moving Castle. Initially, I wanted to just do a character piece with Howl and Sophie, but my stupid pride wouldnt let me skip on drawing the castle itself.  Took awhile to get this the way I wanted it to, but was very satisfied nonetheless

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My own take on a teenage Shizuka Joestar from JJBA IV: Diamond is Unbreakable.  I love this series to bits but wasnt sure I’d be able to pull of Araki’s bonkers color palette. It was worth the go and turned out better than expected. Havent decided on how a developed Achtung Baby (lady?) would look like, so I might draw her again sometime soon. 

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Visitor.

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Here’s me tryna be meta and clever.

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V. The Heirophant Submission for a group exhibit at this upcoming local con.  I along with 77 other artists were assigned tarot cards for this collaborative project. 

The Hierophant was the card given to me, decided to do my own spin at it. Took awhile to get the colors the way I wanted them, but the end result was definitely satisfying

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Volcanic Muse, first piece for the new year.  Traditional inks, digital colors.

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Here’s to year end

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Hesitant Breaths~ concept and referenced from @photographicimprints

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Home is where the dark is.

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Amends

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Time will tell

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Elise  Babygirl OC grew up.  

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To Ashes

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Sparrowhawk