The first job I had when I was starting out is as an illustrator for GMA New Media Inc. , a subsidiary company of GMA News Network. I had the privilege of having Jio Beltran show me the ropes on using software programs to create digital art. These are part of the stuff I did on my early years with the company.
These icons are for the now defunct show Txtube, which is a late night message-board/chat kind of show where they show mtv and there’s a message console at the bottom or side. You can buy the icons and use them as avatars when chatting on the show. You can also purchase them as old sms graphics for the phones back then and send them as picture messages. Back then MMS isn’t invented yet.
The first few batches of icons I was making didn’t really have any specific themes so I just drew whatever I felt like drawing and what I felt would be downloaded and used by the audience as their avatars when chatting.
Done in pen+paper+Photoshop.
