After All The Harsh Lighting (esp. At Night), Here’s My Own Attempt In This Year’s Inktober!!! :DD

Oh the perks of living near the sea. 🌺✨

I believe that 2016 is soooo going to be cute <3

PANTONE Color of the Year 2016

Starry Seas part 2 for Redbubble!

(part 1)

Memories of a time spent on Zamami Island. Where I camped, where I met the rain. これは、僕の秋のスケッチ。座間味島で描きました。

I’m kinda missing the part where around this time of year, when the air gets colder and the sun doesn’t shine DIRECTLY to your face, you go head on with passion projects and multiply your productivity by a thousand. But this year, reality just hits right into you like having no escape at all. All those “priorities” seem to lurk behind you and you feel all guilty when you’re not doing anything with them. It’s a weird feeling, and when you try to escape or just slip away from them, they all come back and the cycle goes on and on. 😥

But I try to comfort myself with little things like listening to new music (at 2am lol) or add new pages to my notebooks and still deal with all the different things that’s happening around.

I don’t want to be half-assed with my actions and I want them to be from my guts and insidesss and still be awesome to things I either hate or like. 😂🙆

This too shall pass.

Hopes & dreams,

花。

Shinkai is getting more amazing and they upgraded the phone too aaaah i can’t wait

Icones of Japanese Algae / Nihon Sorui Zufu ::: Kintarô Okamura (Tokyo 1964)

Conceptualizing Ideas for HNU

It was around late of January when they said about this project and that it would be launched on their Foundation Day which was next month making it also a highlight for the founding of the university’s official basketball team.

At the same time, my grandfather/lolo passed and I had to work on the project at mama’s house. It was tough with all the people but I eventually made it possible. 

Eventually, I passed the idea with the black/ peregrine falcon to them. If you’re wondering why it’s green, they had to change the color and tweaked a little bit. Some say it looked like a parrot but haha that’s so not my fault ;) 

Too bad I couldn’t get a photo of Falco, there were too many people > <

Thank you to Holy Name University for making this happen!

Hopes & dreams,

-  花 <3

Quarter II Rants (sorry)

I deserve a good long summer vacation!!

(4/8/19: Samal Island, Davao del Norte, PH)

☕ Quarter I was all about finishing tasks, senior thesis, and graduation. Those three months finally passed and I’m grateful to say I did a pretty good job keeping my shit together. This is my self-report of my second quarter of 2019 with the intention of moving on after six years of my environment molding me into an anxious stem student but who also has the intention of doing art in the future. It was hard juggling two different things, and I bet it will also get harder soon. I flunked my exam to get to my dream uni/arts course. The only doors open for me were science courses but soredemo I’m still grateful for these chances. Maybe the universe is still saying “not yet” to myself for now.

Days after I checked my exam results and the morning after graduation day, I immediately flew south to attend a youth conference with my relatives. To me, it felt like an escape from my problems back home by sheltering myself through the event. There were lots of self-reflection and I can definitely say it helped me made some decisions. Don’t get me wrong, I actually did had a fun time!! No regrets.

(4/9/19: Pithecophaga jifferyi sketches - The Philippine Eagle Center, Malagos, Davao City, PH)

☕ Witnessed Kamikazee and December Avenue music huhu 💕 Feels surreal to hear your songs from spotigy/youtube on replay to live concerts with tons of people.

(4/2919: Kamikazee - HNU Oval)

(5/1/19: December Avenue - CPG Sports Complex)

☕ Did a beach/underwater-themed wedding guestbook commission!! I had fun experimenting different textures for the cover, illustrating a photo of them together, and painting different sea creatures on the pages!!

☕ Had a 20-days summer job at the provincial capitol. They newly built the place and was assigned to a very pretty office. Also met new found friends!! 💕

☕ We did our part for World Oceans Day with a beach cleanup held by Plastic Free Bohol (a local NGO I hope to volunteer more often!!) After picking up trashes, we went ahead to find a good spot to chill/sun bask with my friends.

(6/8/19: World Oceans Day - Doljo Beach, Panglao Island & Bool, Tagbilaran City, Bohol)

Other friends also did a mini mangrove planting project in Bool’s coastal areas!! So proud of my batch mates 💕

As someone who’s taking a college course that mainly covers ocean conservation and marine life (maybe in another post hehe), figured at least participate local cleanups (as if it’s our last haha) even if commuting to the venue’s a challenge, all efforts definitely doesn’t go to waste :)

Quarter II was an experience of taking my longest break and I definitely believe that I deserved that haha! Quarter III starts this month and all college prep should start now. School starts in August so I think I still have time lounging on this cave lol

I think I made good decisions so far and had good realizations during my break. Whatever happens, happens. I did my work and arrived setbacks, but I’ll try and try again no matter how long it takes. I’m also interested in my upcoming field in uni so I’ll take it as a stepping stone to my intentions, old and new. :)

Lalaban po ako ulit.

Hopes and dreams,

- 花 🌸

Late-ish upload again, sorry! Happy Phycology Friday! This week’s featured friend is also a familiar one: Chondracanthus exasperatus (explanation for why I redid this in the last paragraph). C. exasperatus (common name: Turkish Towel) is a species of red algae. Its appearance may vary with its environmental conditions; for example, its blade shape can vary depending on water velocity, and its colour can vary depending on water temperature.

It also makes for a good loofah, apparently. 😝 - A while back, I drew C. exasperatus and I wasn’t happy with it (it was really rushed and I didn’t have my small brush on me), so I took my sweet time with attempt 2. I think it turned out alright! (or, at least, attempt 1 pales in comparison). I also have a pressing of Chondracanthus (shown on the left in the first photo), which was awesome—it’s always nice to be able to have the real thing in front of you. - What would you like to see featured on a future Phycology Friday? Let me know! ☺️