A collaboration with MTV!!! I was invited to create identity pieces to celebrate MTV’s 40th birthday this year.

Invited and art directed by Rich Tu. Watch the full video here.

Designed and Illustrated the LA TIMES Cover featuring The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The hand lettering was inspired by the band’s energy and musical funk. It reads Winning Time.

Commissioned by: James Brookes, LA TIMES, Calendar

Full Cover piece for The New York Times Arts and Leisure Proto Feminism in pop culture! Art Direction by the incredible Jennifer Ledbury
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“On Yassifying The Women of History—What gets lost when ‘Dickinson’ and ‘The Great’ and ‘Six’ plunder the past for contemporary feminism. Written by Alexis Soloski.

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The main cover figure is based on Emily Dickinson’s likeness. It was fun to research details on her clothes, room, wallpaper, and even found drawings of her dog, Carlo! I included him in the frame details. Thanks to the Emily Dickinson Museum for being a great source of visual research.

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The secondary piece is based on Catherine the Great.

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“On Yassifying The Women of History—What gets lost when ‘Dickinson’ and ‘The Great’ and ‘Six’ plunder the past for contemporary feminism. Written by Alexis Soloski. AD: Jennifer Ledbury

I was approached by FSG Books to create a cover illustration for Katherine Dunn’s unpublished novel, TOAD.

Art Direction by the immaculate June Park.

A personal illustration on how I feel about the first day of Spring. 2022.

The New York Times editorial illustration for their Book Review section. On systems that shaped the internet.

Art Direction by Matthew Dorfman.

Editorial illustration for The New York Times Business section. Luxury’s Gray Market is Emerging from the Shadows.

Art Direction by Molly Bedford.

Vote Posters and PSAs created for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections.

Madonna reposted these poster series!!! Still cannot believe it.

Editorial Illustrations for LA Times Cover and featured articles on Weed culture in Los Angeles. Published on 4/20 2021.

My first cover piece!!!

A super fun Fall 2021 collaboration with clothing brand, Nooworks. See the whole collection here!

Dream client, MTV, commissioned me to create portraits of Saweetie, Conan Gray, Guapdad 4000, and Audrey Nuna for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. 2021.

The New York Times editorial illustrations for the Book Review section. on Kink!

Art Direction by Aurora Colon and Matthew Dorfman.

Personal illustration project. Inspired by the tiny cows grazing on the East Bay hills, that I often watch from my rooftop.

An October still life, thinking of you.

Vote Posters and PSAs created for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections.

Series 2 of 3.

Madonna reposted these poster series!!! Still cannot believe it.

Personal illustration work. 2021.

Still life inspired by the ancient celebrations of the Spring goddess Ēostre.

The New York Times editorial illustration. On how to reach the unvaccinated.

Art Direction by Alexandra Szigmond.

Book Cover and Design for Shit Cassandra Saw. Published by Penguin Random House, Spring 2022.

Art Directed by Paul Buckley.

Protect Your Energy, PSA Poster. Personal Project 2021.

Are You Taking Care of Yourself? PSA poster. 2021.

Love is the Drug poster. Personal project 2021.

Personal Work. 2021

Vote Posters and PSAs created for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections.

Series 3 of 3.

Madonna reposted these poster series!!! Still cannot believe it.

A series of illustrations on how to deal with acceptance, pain and suffering.

Art Director: Jaspal Riyait

New York Times Magazine, Letter of Recommendation. This piece revolves around revisiting the Pomodoro Technique during shelter in place. Read the article here.

Art director: Ben Grandgenett
Published July 2020

Everyday PSA. Part 1, An ongoing series of Public Service Announcement art, illustrated during shelter in place. The posters are meant to raise awareness on social issues especially relevant during the current pandemic.

Art direction: Lydia Ortiz :)

A series of editorial illustrations for The New York Times Technology.
On election rumors and how to prevent them.

Art director: Alexandra Zsigmond

AFAR Mag Illustration. Commissioned to illustrate a back cover piece that focuses on what travel meant to me in the year 2020. The piece ended up revolving around healing and visiting nature places as a form to deal with the grief I experienced after losing my father that year. I incorporated his favorite nature spots in California in this piece.

Everyday PSA. Part 2, An ongoing series of Public Service Announcement art, illustrated during shelter in place. The posters are meant to raise awareness on social issues especially relevant during the current pandemic.

Art direction: Lydia Ortiz :)

Asaan Ka Na? Watercolor. Personal Illustration 2021.

New York Times Technology. A look at whether Big Tech is the new Big Oil. Read the article here.

Art director: ALEXANDRA ZSIGMOND

Published August 27, 2020

Personal artwork created in 2018.

Editorial illustration for The New York Times Technology. Online shopping is Amazing. Or is it?

Art director: Alexandra Zsigmond

Go Hug Yourself PSA Poster.
Personal illustration work. 2021

The New York Times editorial illustration. On how same sex couples share the mental workload.

Art Direction by Jaspal Raiyat.

The California Academy of Sciences’ NightLife is the after-hours (21+), programming at the California Academy of Sciences. Programming ranges from drag shows for SF Pride week to Q&A sessions with some of the Academy’s top scientists.

With the help of the internal design team at Cal Academy, I created a seasonal re-brand of the Nightlife program materials. The deliverables ranged from:

Poster art
Print Ads
Social Media Posts
Bus wraps / Bus Shelters
Web Banners

This has been one of my dream projects to date.

Editorial Illustration for Bon Appetit’s Dinuguan piece.

Art Direction: Alex Madrid.

Commissioned piece for The Washington Post, for the Women's March's first year anniversary. View published piece here.

Art director: Elizabeth Hart 

The books reviewed are Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu and The Unmade Bed by Stephen Marche. Both books discuss domestic gender roles and how couples should balance career and family. Read the full review here!

Art director: Matthew Dorfman

The review is of Delphine de Vigan’s novel “Based on a True Story”. It’s a psychological thriller about a writer who befriends another writer, their friendship later on takes a strange turn. It gets obsessive and stalker-like, and as the story gets darker, their identities begin to blur. Read the review here.

Art director: Matthew Dorfman

I was interviewed and commissioned by The Washington Post magazine to create art for Human Rights Day.

This piece is called Sentinel. View the piece here.

Art director: Christian Font

Mga Mumu, Multo at Maskara I (Monsters, Ghosts, and Masks) is my first solo exhibition that took place in Max Occupancy gallery space in North Beach, San Francisco. February 2020

See more about the exhibit here.

Mga Mumu, Multo at Maskara I (Monsters, Ghosts, and Masks) is my first solo exhibition that took place in Max Occupancy gallery space in North Beach, San Francisco. February 2020

See more about the exhibit here.

I had the privilege of illustrating this piece for The New York Times' Opinion section. The article is about how the Supreme Court let the administration manipulate the 2020 census by adding a citizenship question to it. "Roughly 6.5 million people, would go uncounted with a citizenship question on the 2020 census." Adding the citizenship question to the form would discourage both legal and non legal citizens to fill up the form. This would defeat the purpose of the census to count everyone in the nation.

See the full article here.

Art direction: Melody Newcomb and Hannah Lee

BEAUTIFUL BODIES
A Memoir 
The book review is on Beautiful Bodies by Kimberly Rae Miller . “What is the ideal human body? Why don’t we all have it? Why do we come in different shapes and sizes, and when and why did we start hating ourselves for it?” Read the review here.

Art director: Matthew Dorfman

Just a few of the monsters I’ve drawn throughout the years. Learn to love your demons, they have a lot to teach you.

I was interviewed and commissioned by The Washington Post magazine to create art for Spring and the revamping of The Washington Post Magazine.

This piece is called Awakening. View the piece here.

Art director: Christian Font

Mga Mumu, Multo at Maskara I (Monsters, Ghosts, and Masks) is my first solo exhibition that took place in Max Occupancy gallery space in North Beach, San Francisco. February 2020

See more about the exhibit here.

I was interviewed and commissioned by The Washington Post magazine to create art for a subject I was currently interested in.

This piece is called “The Doctor and the Rabbit”. I was obsessed with NASA’s space rover InSight at the time. View the piece here.

Need something to keep your mind off the political upheaval? Artist Lydia Ortiz has an idea: space rovers. Not only do the Americans have InSight probing the surface of Mars like a planetary doctor, but now China has a rover, Yutu-2 (or Jade Rabbit-2), on the far side of the moon, a first in space exploration. “I like thinking and reading up on space exploration, most times to escape other things in the news,” Ortiz says. “It also often gives me perspective on how small I am.”

Art for Damn Joan Horoscope for The Hunt Issue. Published March 2018. Horoscopes by Sam F. Reynolds. Art Directed by girl crush, Lynda Lucas.

Art created for The Washington Post's The Lily. The article is on Pussypedia, a free, bilingual sexual health database.

Art Director: Amy Cavenaile

I was commissioned by Old Navy to design and illustrate their Heritage Poster for my hometown in Manila. I knew I had to draw a jeepney! I was born and raised in the Philippines, lived there for 19 years and rode a jeepney almost everyday. My school bus was a jeepney from kindergarten to college. So I dedicated this piece to the kids I rode with; Xave, Marc, Kiti, Xanne, Czarina, Deldon, Kuya Sammy, and our driver, Mang Rudy.

Collaborated on this project with my illustrator and photographer husband Patrick Rafanan.

Personal illustrations inspired by experiencing the seasons for the first time. I saw snow for the first time in 2015. @_@

American Illustration 36 Winner. Artwork created in 2017.

Here's a series of 12 illustrations for Teen Vogue's Summer Horoscope! I made 12 different masks, one for each sign. I also drew the icons, symbols, and gemstones relating to each zodiac sign. 

To read your horoscope and see the full article go here.

Client: Teen Vogue, Wesley Johnson

Editorial illustration created for Teen Vogue’s article on celebrating Bisexuality.

I was commissioned by Instagram to design and illustrate their From Where I Stand 2016 campaign mural. Installed in front of the iconic Flatiron Building in New York City, the weekend before the 2016 Presidential Election, the interactive mural encouraged people to talk about the issues affecting them. The mural prompted the audience to use their Instagram stories in designated areas and encouraged people to go out and vote.

Collaborated on this project with my illustrator and photographer husband Patrick Rafanan.

Read the Instagram interview here.

A series of 12 illustrations commissioned by Teen Vogue for their Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign, Not Your Fault.

Not Your Fault is a Teen Vogue campaign that aims to educate people about the epidemic of sexual assault. To read the articles and more on the series, click here.

Client: Teen Vogue
 

A series of illustrations commissioned by Teen Vogue on mental health and the effects of bullying.

Client: Teen Vogue

Save the USPS PSA Poster. Personal Illustration work. 2021.

A series of illustrations commissioned by Teen Vogue on sexual health and sexual identities.

Client: Teen Vogue
 

Illustrations inspired by rock god, David Bowie. Pieces selected to be featured on the Print All Over Me site for the David Bowie design tribute.

I applied these illustrations to a silk scarf, a sweatshirt, and tee. Raised over $700, and all proceeds went to Cancer Research UK.
Pieces still available here.

Client: Print All Over Me x Cancer Research UK

A pattern series inspired by the Egyptian god, Anubis. The Egyptians believed that Anubis is the god of embalming and the god of death. An alternate pattern reveals Anubis skeleton meant for a glow in the dark print.

A series of illustrated posters featuring Gucci's Spring 16 products. I worked on these illustrations with photographer (aand husband!) Patrick Rafanan. We were super inspired by Alessandro Michele's latest art direction, a dreamy blend of the 70's, The Renaissance, and Street Style. 

Nyquil inspired patterns illustrations done when I had the flu March 2017. 

Detailed 8 in x10 in black and white pen and ink illustrations. 

*American Illustration 26 and 27 winners.

Illustrated alphabet series on different gods throughout history.