Odds & Ends

Mood, a page from my Moleskine. 

Most of the pages in my sketchbook don’t look like my current work.

Behold, my first ever comic! I drew this at the studio during down time/thinking time. It took a few days but it’s nice to challenge myself with a different style.

I love kindly old men who potter around in gardens. I’ll try to draw more stories in the next weeks. I’m also trying to make my work feel more organic, with more handmade elements.

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We’re excited to share our latest work, SocialProject.Ph. We’ve been working on this for quite some time now with developers Rico & Mikong of Nadarei. SocialProject.PH is a platform that supports the ecosystems of social enterprises and non-profits in the Philippines. The site is currently in beta mode but there are already five awesome projects from Ayala Foundation, Gawad Kalinga & Bambowtie, Gifts and Graces, Hapinoy, and Stiftung Solarenergie.

You can find and donate to projects that uplift the Philippine Community and other advocacies of their choice from the five categories: Cool for School, Guardian Angel, Eco Warriors, Heart for Health, and Profit + Passion. Project Owners also give rewards to Backers for their support.

SocialProject.PH’s platform lets you follow the progress of a project through milestones, Project Owner comments, and a countdown. You can also learn more about the project through uploaded videos and blog entries.

We introduced a different take on how to raise funding by implementing “Milestones”. What are milestones?

For bigger projects, you can choose to be paid in multiple “milestones.” For example, if you define 3 milestones, you will be paid in 3 increments.

Your first milestone will be reached once your project has enough money pledged equal to that milestone’s goal. These funds will then be made available to you immediately once this milestone is attained.

Once the last milestone is attained, the project is considered to be fully funded. Your project’s full funding goal is the milestones combined. 

Check it out and help crowdfund a better Philippines!

You may download the press kit here.

On our second day, we checked out a Chinese medicine shop. Chels was looking for champoy (plum fruit preserve) and I think we spent 10 minutes drawing/describing it and thinking of different spellings until the owners figured out what we were talking about. One great thing about visiting Asian countries is brining home local sweets to snack on or give as pasalubong to friends.

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When I was a kid, I thought all grownups were really huge. As I grew older, my Papa Nonoy was one of the few who still seemed tall in my eyes. He was always there to watch over me and help me conspire against my parents. Papa spoiled us rotten and even though we spent a good chunk of our childhood in Chicago, Papa always made sure we received gifts. He would serve us more than our fair share of dessert at the family restaurant and he would take us to the beach with our parents. Papa was a steady source of kindness and inspiration: he woke up at 5:30 everyday to buy fish and supplies for the kitchen and he shared coffee with Mama after closing shop. During his birthday parties, he enjoyed letting the children blow the candles to have his wishes. 

Recently, Papa passed away peacefully and surrounded by his entire family. Although he’s not here anymore; I’m pretty sure he’s still watching over us. And because Papa always liked to keep us happy, here are some interesting stories about him.

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Agency Fish commissioned me to illustrate these maps to accompany an article for Garuda Indonesia’s inflight magazine, Colours. The textures and background were made with watercolor. Now that I’ve read up on Indonesia; I’d really love to visit. Thanks to Nanda Giftanina for the opportunity!

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Edit: Thanks to Nanda Giftanina for the opportunity! The maps were made with watercolors and Photoshop.