NOVICE Spotlight Batch 2020

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Aaron Amar • Ab Hong • artegoph • baklArt • Budong • Cheryl Owen Christian Meron • Diwatero • Ehrran Montoya • Erika • esoj • Gian • Gino Paolo Iniego Ian Inoy • Jade • James Brian Avecilla • Jart Don • Jo Valiao • John David Ulangca Joshua Jose Dizon • Kean Larrazbal • Khervin John Gallandez • Kriem-Hill Benedick Siruno Lean • Lei Reburiano • Nicco Zumel Mindanao • Pamela Maceda • Paul Unseld Baltazar pusanggalart • Relly Coquia • Sean Eidder • Seline Abanto • Shaun Cledera • Taboy unardent • Vanj • VODKA • xkmesguerra • Xy

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While the pandemic has put our lives on hold, it has also given us something rare and wonderful— art born in times of adversity and uncertainty.

This year, we celebrate Filipino creatives who emerged to lead a digital renaissance. Your pursuits and outlook humanize our experiences of grief and turn them into a message of hope.

As you reimagine and reinvent the world of arts, Novice will keep the light shining on you!

Kcreeeatp ing!

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ON THE COVERS

CREATIVE & MANAGING DIRECTOR

Allen Esteban

CONTENT EDITORS

Freniel Austria Ellaine Marie Laureta COPY EDITOR

Photo by Kriem-Hill Benedick Siruno

Hazel Buctayon LITERARY EDITOR

Brent Jericko Narciso FILIPINO EDITOR

Joshua Mari Lumbera ONLINE AND COMMUNICATIONS EDITOR

Magkano na ba ang galunggong ngayon?

(2020) Digital illustration

by Pamela Maceda

Rebekah Antonette Muñoz WRITERS

Justine Mae Caringal Patricia Villar GRAPHIC ARTISTS

Ninotchka Arreola James Cafirma Earl Jon Taguinod

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ISSUE DESIGN AND LAYOUT BY

Allen Esteban Earl Jon Taguinod

No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or part without permission from the team and featured creatives.

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featured creatives 06 Aaron Amar 08 Ab Hong 10 artegoph 12 baklArt 14 Budong 16 Cheryl Owen 18 Christian Meron 20 Diwatero 22 Ehrran Montoya 24 Erika 26 esoj 28 Gian 30 Gino Paolo Iniego 32 Ian Inoy 34 Jade 36 James Brian Avecilla 38 Jart Don 40 Jo Valiao 42 John David Ulangca 44 Joshua Jose Dizon

46 Kean Larrazbal 48 Khervin John Gallandez 50 Kriem-Hill Benedick Siruno 52 Lean 54 Lei Reburiano 56 Nicco Zumel Mindanao 58 Pamela Maceda 60 Paul Unseld Baltazar 62 pusanggalart 64 Relly Coquia 66 Sean Eidder 68 Seline Abanto 70 Shaun Cledera 72 Taboy 74 unardent 76 Vanj 78 VODKA 80 xkmesguerra 82 Xy

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AARON AMAR y /aaronamar Q @aaronxamar C /aaronamar Aaron Amar is an independent type designer based in Quezon City. He has been designing typefaces for eight years and is known for releasing free fonts inspired by jeepney signages such as Quiapo Free, Cubao Free, and Dangwa Free.

He also innovated typing in Baybayin with Matatas One, a Baybayin typeface that is easy-to-type with the help of ligature technique.

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AB HONG Q @ab.hong Abigail is an architect by profession. She discovered collage making in late 2017, and she’s still going at it ever since. She likes how collage making is spontaneous, never knowing what the finished product is going to look like until it’s almost done.

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ARTEGOPH Q @artegoph D @artegoph K www.issuu.com/artegoph11 Iko Salas is the creator and the man behind artegoph, a free online magazine that provides safe spaces for artists to celebrate their queer artworks. artegoph is “the art of being gay,” telling and sharing stories of triumph and struggles of being queer in the Philippines. Iko released the second issue of artegoph in June 2020 with Juan Miguel Severo on the cover.

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BAKLART E /jerichoecho.fazon Q @jerichoecho.fazon D @baklArt Crafted by his great passion for the arts, Jericho-Echo “baklArt” U. Fazon is one of the rising artists of Nueva Vizcaya.

He is an Architecture student of Saint Mary’s University Bayombong. With his finesse in watercolor, he goes beyond boundaries to explore mixed media as his medium. He also does conceptual and editorial photo shoots.

Jericho has dedicated his talents not only for art’s sake but also in trying to mirror social realities and raising awareness to social issues to create change.

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BUDONG

unwanted, intrusive thoughts

swept away

venture into the unknown

summit

let loose

stare

lucid dreaming

above the dunes

y /marcoliverfernandez E /budongss Q @budongss Marc Oliver Fernandez is the person behind Komiks ni Budong of Philippine Daily Inquirer and Novice.

Before becoming a full-time graphic artist, he used to teach English Literature to high school students. His expertise in Literature triggered his art form, which particularly highlights the vivid and colorful stories lying within the strokes and the monochromatic colors of his works. He aims to tell stories that challenge the mundane and appeal to the innermost workings of the imagination.

2020 | 9x6” Ink and watercolor

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BUDONG

space junk (2020) 9x6” Ink and watercolor

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CHERYL OWEN

Calming the Crows (2020) Watercolor on archival paper

E /cheryljowen Q @cheryljowen M Cheryl Owen Cheryl Owen is a Manila-based visual artist, illustrator, and creative entrepreneur.

She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Major in Advertising Arts in 2009.

After graduating, she pursued an advertising career until she left the industry in 2016.

Since then, Cheryl has ventured on her own as a full-time artist.

Cheryl’s body of work is comprised of fantasy-

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inspired watercolor pieces visualized by interweaving the delicate female form with raw natural elements. Her works have been included in several group exhibitions such as Hermosa in A Space Gallery, Mind Tenants in Nova Gallery, The Full Moon Art Show in La Bodega Gallery, and The Power in Numbers in Nucleus Portland to name a few. She also does portrait commissions for Mabuhay Magazine and personal clients.

Obscurum (2020) 24x36” | Watercolor

Virgo’s Harvest (2020)

8.5x11” | Watercolor on arches paper

CHERYL OWEN

Neko Onna (2020) 8.5x11” | Watercolor and gold ink on archival paper

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CHRISTIAN MERON y /mischanter Q @mischanter Christian Meron is a visual artist from Quezon City. He specializes in painting and drawing but is more liberal with the way they are presented and the medium he uses.

He is constantly motivated by trying out something new to gain understanding and appreciation of art and its multifacetedness.

9x12” | Mixed media on paper

Poster paint on paper

Charcoal on paper

9x12” | Mixed media on paper

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CHRISTIAN MERON

26x37cm | Charcoal on paper

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D I WAT E R O E /diwatero Q @diwatero w @diwatero Ryan Agsawa or “diwatero” is an architect by profession. It was only in mid 2019 when he started to follow his artistic heart and made his way into the world of concept art by becoming an illustrator. He is very much into drawing myths, legends, folklore, magic, spirits, and fictional characters.

Most of his illustrations are inspired by games, fantasy films, books, Philippine mythology, and sometimes visuals from his meditations and dreams.

Magwayen, the Visayan goddess of the sea and the underworld, ferries a fallen Tikbalang chieftain to Sulad or afterlife.

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Lady of the Great Balete Tree (2020) Digital Art

A pre-colonial mother from the ‘Aswang Tribe’ goes hunting with her cubs. The woods, on a full moon, can be dangerous even to young shapeshifters without an elder Aswang.

D I WAT E R O

Ang sabi ng bantay ay sundan ko lang daw ang mga lambana... (2020) Digital Art

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EHRRAN M O N TOYA E /ehrran.montoya E /illustrationsbyehrranmontoya Q @ehrranmontoya Ehrran is a 26-year-old fashion designer, fashion illustrator, and freelance visual artist from Morong, Rizal. He is a graduate of Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Advertising from the Far Eastern University, and is a member of Fashion Designers Alliance Manila (FaDAL) - the Creative Movers.

Poster for Remediare: After The Media Gospel According To Vogue Nativity (2020) 24x21” / 27.5x32” (framed) Acrylic on newspaper

The Three Wise Men (2020) 12x10.5” / 21x19” (framed) Acrylic on newspaper

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E H R R A N M O N TOYA

The Visitation (2020) 13x11” / 21.5x20” (framed) Acrylic on newspaper

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ERIKA E /erikacreatez Q @erikacreatez Erika is a 20-year-old graphic designer based in Manila. She creates graphic designs to express her thoughts which she can’t express through words.

As a designer, she wants her audience to experience art on a different level that’s why she creates graphics with a purpose. She is an active graphic designer in her church which taught her many lessons including the concept that every design and poster should send a message. Ultimately, she hopes to become a well-known graphic artist who creates dope designs for her Creator.

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ESOJ y /-esojE /ANYOSERIES Q @erasetheboard Joseph Luna aka “Esoj Luna” is an artist from Puerto Princesa, Palawan but now residing in Cebu City. To improve his craft as an artist, he’s been seriously working hard since he was 18 years old. Now, he works as a visual development artist in animation studios.

He also do murals and digital illustrations, both traditional and digital.

He is very passionate to explore and learn new things to expand himself as a person and to push his limits in his art. He likes to inspire and educate people about art in general through his own point of view.

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GIAN Q @xgxi_ “I’m Gian, a selftaught artist and a sophomore Multimedia Arts student from Tuguegarao City, Cagayan. My pen illustrations consist of dark, weird, and creepy elements.

I’m still working on creating my own unique style to share with everyone.”

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G I N O PAO LO INIEGO E /ginoloap Q @ginoloap

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"Hi I'm Gino Paolo, a graduate of Electronics Engineering from Saint Mary's University and a former Chief Photojournalist and Sports Editor of The MARIAN. I aim to connect with my viewers through the photos that I take by putting them in the perspective in which I had when I took that specific subject. Nature and people are my favorite subjects to capture."

Agta community in Brgy. Cabisera 10, Ilagan, Isabela.

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G I N O PAO LO I N I EG O

There are still absolute smiles left in the world.

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IAN INOY E /ianinoy Q @ianinoy K www.ianinoy.com Ian Inoy is a gender-fluid, multidisciplinary artist whose works motivate environmental awareness and protection all through the different disciplines.

As a visual artist, he uses upcycled materials treated in order to be used as building blocks towards his heavily textured works. Ian’s style and technique is a mergence of Western and Asian

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techniques that inspired him since he was little. On the other hand, as a performer, he combines emotions and movements to portray a certain scenario which creates textures and depths through conceptual performances. He believes that with the use of such a process, he can create new things that support the causes he has as an artist.

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JADE y /blablajade Q @blablajade A random illustrator, Jade creates artwork of any stuff for freelance jobs and personal art. He enjoys experimenting and twisting concepts, composition, color palette and styles for illustrations, posters, portraits, and doodle arts.

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JADE

BLWL (2020) Digital Art

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JAMES BRIAN AV E C I L L A Q @_bakonaua K www.inprnt.com/profile/bakonaua “Hi! I’m Brian Avecilla, a Las Piñas-based visual artist, illustrator, and graphic artist. I’m currently working under my alias ‘bakonaua.’ My work is focused on my obsession with doodles, ‘anything you can find in an alley here in the PH’ things, Philippine mythology, video games, and comics.

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My art style revolves around ‘poorly’ drawn things and characters— mundane silly things, raw emotions, complex topics— showcasing fresh perspectives and narratives through messy line work and colors. I work on a lot of personal art projects which I turn into merchandise.”

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JART DON E /jArtdon18 Q @jartdon M #tradigidsign JArt Don is a multimedia artist from Caloocan City.

He spends a lot of his time sketching and drawing. His works are mostly conceptual and orignal characters inspired with what he sees around him.

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JART DON

BLWL (2020) Digital Art

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J O VA L I A O E /heyunicornjournal Q @unicornjournal_ Jo is an industrial designer and an aspiring artist from Mandaluyong City. She is in pursuit of empowering women, culture, and nature through her paintings both traditionally and digitally.

For her, art and design coexist to touch hearts and to empower one’s passion.

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JOHN D AV I D ULANGCA E /blysheepsart Q @blysheeps John David aka “blysheeps” is an artist and illustrator from Metro Manila. He is passionate about creating surreal and dreamy illustrations. He loves to draw creepy and weird images, as you can see in his art page. He developed a habit in 2020 that helped him improve his craft—“draw at least 5 minutes a day, never skip a day, and you’ll see big improvement.”

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JOSHUA JOSE DIZON E /xjoshuwu Q @xjoshuwu Through years of practice, Joshua Jose Dizon has explored his artistry through different mediums and techniques. Looking for his own art style, he embraced his dissimilar outlook on what art is; “art is a continuous progress and longing of what else there is to learn, it should not be conformed or limited to what’s only comfortable.”

Self-taught, Joshua

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started to draw as a little kid, drawing women in dresses and mermaids around the walls and on random textbooks.

However, he further immersed himself in art when his talent starts to get more recognition from people around him.

Eager to prove himself, he started wandering from dry to wet media and is now exploring digital art.

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KEAN LARRAZABAL E /keanlarrazabal Q @keanlarrazabal Kean is a self-taught conceptual artist who hails from Iligan City but is now based in Cebu. Focusing on socially engaged art, his works are inspired by various stories in the streets, attaching allegory by using cut-out cardboard imagery in his paintings to achieve visual poetry.

SAMOk Series (2020) Acrylic on cardboard

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Danak (2020) Acrylic on cardboard

Piyat (2020) Acrylic on canvas

KEAN LARRAZABAL

KaraTula (2020) 8x11” | Acrylic on cardboard

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KHERVIN JOHN GALLANDEZ E /khervingallandezart Q @khervingallandez Khervin John Gallandez is a self-taught visual artist based in Laoag, Ilocos Norte. He strives to connect with his audience, through his vivid colored and impastoed paintings.

He is able to blend the old and the new by taking inspiration from the old masters and giving it a twist on both his subjects and in his manner of painting.

He shares his work in social media in order to make it

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more accessible to everyone.

Like a real Ilocano, he is able to provide finesse and eloquence in his works. His paintings from figures to landscapes were usually exhibited to provide charm and essence inside any area.

He is able to transform the mundane—the boring things in life, he is able to wake up the senses through his paintings and breathe life into them.

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KHERVIN JOHN GALLANDEZ

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KRIEM-HILL BENEDICK SIRUNO Q @kriemsir “I’m Kriem-Hill Benedick Siruno, an Electrical Engineer by profession.

I shoot using digital and film cameras. I’m a visual storyteller who loves to document stories of people from all walks of life. I also love to capture moments from sunrise to sunset, everything in between.”

Magbago man ang panahon, tuloy pa rin ang debosyon.

As a sign of devotion, thousands of people walk barefoot during the #Traslacion2020.

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KRIEM-HILL BENEDICK SIRUNO

I visited my Lolo yesterday. It’s just the first day of the year yet he’s already busy being a mechanic—his favorite hobby. He really can’t live without using his mechanical tools once in a while.

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LEAN E /leandychengco Q @art_leandy K www.artstation.com/lean_dy Lean Dychengco is a designer and illustrator based in Makati. He started working in an animation studio when he was younger. He loves to see his creations come alive and free. His personal artworks become his outlet everytime he feels burned out or stressed. His works are pencil sketches, digital paintings and illustrations, mostly

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original characters, conceptual, and fanart. He appreciates all kinds of art styles and this helps him develop his own art style.

“Continue your passion towards art and let your passion define you, Never be afraid to explore new ideas that may help you grow, and be the best to inspire others.”

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LEI REBURIANO Q @collagetio Lei aka “Collage Tio” is a Manila-based Art Director, who works across a variety of mediums, from graphic design, to digital illustration, and collage making. Through simplified line art and elements in muted colors, he tries to encompass different human emotions and relations.

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NICCO ZUMEL MINDANAO y Niccolo Alen Adler E /adlerhyung Q @adlerhyung “Hi I’m Nicco, a 26-year-old artist, graphic designer, and frustrated baker currently based in Calumpit, Bulacan. I recently discovered my art style thanks to quarantine (the only thing I’m thankful for during the past few months).

Quitting my job as a designer during quarantine last year helped me explore more about my art style. I paint this character named Nikki. He/ she embodies my

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daily struggle in life and also some of my quirks that I haven’t shown to people, he/she is weird and extremely childish opposite to how I present myself to the world.

Through my art I can somehow feel the freedom that I always dreamt of for my community, freedom from judgement, discrimination and to some sort of negativity that a member of LGBTQ+ community faces today.

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Walang Sulok (2020) 36x24” triangular Acrylic on shaped/ assembled “pibra” boards (recycled plastic like composite)

PA M E L A MACEDA E /paulapamela.luna Q @p._m_a_ce_d_a Pamela Maceda (b. 1999, Batangas) is a student at the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Fine Arts.

A graduate of the Batangas Province High School for Culture and Arts (BPHSCA), she mainly focuses on painting but also works with various media such as illustration and sculpture. Often integrates texture in every piece, she mostly incorporates domestic flora and fauna together with translated human

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physique to establish the statement within the artwork. Mixing realistic and linear images to portray social issues, she frequently adds the image of a fish in her works mainly the ones sold at the market for human consumption and isdang bunutan or fishes sold during fiestas in barangays in the country. These fishes bear a fatal meaning to her works. Ranging from distorted images of existing organisms and tangible objects balanced with the contrast of her choice of hues.

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Anim na Yugto ng Pagdarasal 1 & 2 (2020) 12x12” | Acrylic on canvas (museum wrap)

PA M E L A M ACE DA

mainit sa labas (2020) 13x12” Acrylic on canvas

Sa ngalan ng anak (2020) 15x20” Acrylic on board

Magkano na ba ang galunggong ngayon? (2020) Digital illustration

Si Danica Mae (2020) 16x24” Acrylic on canvas

Take off (2020) Digital illustration Sa ngalan ng ama (2020) 15x20” | Acrylic on board

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PAU L UNSELD B A LTA Z A R E /paul.30.baltazar Q @_santo.papaul Paul is an 19-year-old artist from Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.

He has a deep love for ink and crosshatching and usually draws surrealism portraits.

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PUSANGGALART E /pusanggalart Q @pusanggalart D @pusanggalart Kat Gonzales aka “pusanggalart” is an aspiring artist from Quezon City.

She likes to incorporate warm and solid colors in her works. She loves cats and drawing girls or random stuff during her free time. She’s still building her own style and hopes to work in the Philippine art industry the future.

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R E L LY COQUIA Q @rellygc M rellygc K www.rellycoquia.com Relly Coquia is an illustrator based in Manila. She graduated with a Multimedia Arts degree and decided to focus solely on illustration and painting.

Her works are inspired by popular culture fused with fine art. Her body of work can be described as realistic with a rough, painterly look and cinematic atmosphere.

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SEAN EIDDER Q @seaneidder K seaneidder.com Sean Eidder is a 20-year-old multi-hyphenated creative from Manila. On weekdays he is a full-time art director for a business solutions agency, on weeknights he is an art student who has mastered the art of procrastination, and on the weekends he is a freelancer taking all sorts of design projects because he refuses to be idle.

The Peculiar Boy™, his brainchild, is his way of telling the world the difference

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he exhumes whether it be in a collage, graphic design, fashion, or any discipline he puts his delight in.

Currently, he is working on manifesting his dream of employing every uber-skilled Filipino creative youth he encounters.

Ultimately, he will one day pursue a brand that would champion these young burgeoning talents—a creative avenue that would amplify their ability in ushering societal change.

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SELINE ABANTO Q @selineabanto D @selineabanto K selineabanto.carrd.co Seline Abanto is a digital illustrator whose art often focuses on the joys and exciting moments in life.

She has a passion for diverse, representative media and Filipino visibility and aims to professionally work in illustration or character design. Seline has created illustrations for the non-profit organization The Butterfly Effect PH and a few unreleased book

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projects. Her work has been featured on Spot. ph, ABS-CBN’s Matanglawin, and Daily Tribune.

Now a senior undergraduate taking up Multimedia Arts, Seline balances her time between freelance work, personal projects, academics, and being the Creatives Head of one of her college’s organizations, Animotion.

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SHAUN CLEDERA E /kapremakingart Q @kapre.art Shaun Cledera is an artist from Naga City, Camarines Sur. He is currently employed as a game developer in Sta Rosa, Laguna.

His works are mostly original character and landscape design and illustration which he uses for telling his own stories and building different worlds. His heart for stories and literature reflects his longing for a deeper understanding of the human condition which translates to most of his works.

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TABOY E /ivantaboytorres Q @ivantaboytorres Taboy is a Baguio-based artist and architect. He is a self-taught artist who has been drawing since 2002 but only developed his unique style in 2018.

Combining his love for streetwear, street culture, architecture, and art, he creates pieces that translates his own style. His common subjects for his art are: shoes, streetwear, street food, and urban architecture. Taboy uses traditional but mostly digital media for his art. He is currently working on establishing a streetwear brand called Taboy Artwear.

For Taboy, art is a lifestyle and is a means of self expression and escape from reality. He creates illustrations to further develop his skills and to someday make a name for himself as an artist.

SUPORTA (2020) Digital Triptych Art

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TABOY

KLASIKO (2020) Digital Art

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UNARDENT E /unardent Q @unardent Unardent is Manila-based entity with a heart for collage, with which they create absurd realities that are bordering between the lines of mundane and try-hard occult. Their works, self-proclaimed “made in selfpreservation”, tackle feelings of vulnerability, acceptance, and growth (and may involve a bit too much Mitski). Unardent, above all else, is about being empathetic towards the self; their art is the function of the emotion: it is angry, it is grieving, and it is not enough, it is too much. Currently, they’re working towards expanding their art style into a new depth.

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VA N J Q @vanjodegz Generalist for the most part, shutterbug during lucid intervals.

While he may seem to stare the sense out of charts and reports, Vanjo often drifts out to a world where stories are better shown than told. He checks out markets and merchants by day, and drifts off with a camera for the rest of the time, well at least when he can.

Savvy for souls and spaces, he tries to escape reality without changing the situation, adding a personal flavor to otherwise common sights. He goes to show that corporate should never kill the child within.

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Moments like this seem very distant; quite alien from the circumstances to date.

Is it enough to have a roof overhead? I was walking home, past 2 AM, when I passed by this old woman—sound asleep on an old couch next to the window of what appeared to be hair salon. Though it wasn't exactly a comfortable set-up, she laid still in slumber, probably having gotten used to it. Her hands indicated otherwise; her fists clenched as if she was holding back a strong feeling or emotion. Could it be pain? Grief?

Anger? It could well be any of those.

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Monday Grind

Coming back from the holidays means retreating to the usual window view, given the ongoing situation warranting confinement to our respective quarters. Nevertheless, these construction workers are hands down building up.

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VODKA y /yohanachavez E /vodka2222 Q @vodka_22oz “Hi, I’m VODKA, I don’t sell alcohol.”

Yohan Ashley Chavez is a 15-yearold artist based in Cavite. She also do photography for fun.

666 (2020) 2.3x2.4" Paper collage

Men are clown (2020) Collage

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VODKA

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XKMESGUERRA y /xkmesguerra Q @xkmesguerra D @xkmesguerra “I am Kim, perpetual insomniac and all-around creative with a passion for visual art, illustration, and graphic design. Like stories, my graphics are reimagined in a form that can speak to others.

I like working with vibrant colors and empowering messages to reach my audience.”

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XY y /ekkswaiartworks E /ekkswai.artworks Q @ekkswai.arts “People call me Xy. I grew up in a family of artists in Laguna. I am also the first one in the family who took Arts as a career choice. I studied Fine Arts in Philippine Women’s University Manila and have been a graphic designer since 2009. In 2017, I got inspired by my fellow artists to sell my own art merchandise. I decided to give it a shot and created my brand Ekkswai Artworks. I sell stickers, prints, notepads and more. I often attend art markets like Komiket and BGC Art mart, but due to the pandemic, I shifted to selling my art merchandise online.

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