#maysia2021

[reallyhardydraws]

🇵🇭 #maysia2021 - 5) traditional clothing

i’ve never worn anything particularly traditional bar the time i tried on my grandmother’s wedding dress, but my dad & brother have both worn the barong tagalog which is “an embroidered long-sleeved formal shirt combining elements from both the precolonial native filipino and colonial spanish clothing styles. it is traditionally made with sheer textiles (nipis) woven from piña (pineapple plant) or abacá  (banana plant).” the equivalent for women is baro’t saya (basically ‘blouse and skirt’) which often has these huge ‘butterfly sleeves’ which you also see on a lot of filipino gowns, and are what gives a particularly unique look. i love me some absolutely giant sleeves.

of course while i chose something i’ve at least been around and occasionally brushed up against in department stores, the philippines is a vast and diverse nation with many indigenous communities who have their own beautiful (and non-colonial/christiansed) traditional dress, and i encourage you to look them up! i particularly love the semmek, clothing worn by the yakan people.

#maysia #maysia2021 #draws

[eembulan]

reposting old art for maysia day 5! the man on the left in the first picture is wearing a pinagpagan blanket, and the man next to him is wearing a vest and a headband. blankets are commonly worn during a cañao, which is a type of celebration. the woman is wearing a traditional Benguet Ibaloi/Kankanaey dress, the blouse part being called a sa-dey, kambal or sambra.

#maysia #asia #asian #artists on tumblr #ibaloi #igorot #kankanaey #maysia2021 #clothing #fashion #indigenous #2020 #eembulan

[samairu]

I’m going to try doing Maysia !! Here’s day one: self-portrait

I have a vivid memory of an art teacher calling me out on drawing my nose too small on a self-portrait assignment and have been self conscious of it ever since. I’m not really sure how others view my nose, but I’ve come to love parts of myself little by little, nose included. Maybe it looks large to others, maybe it’s perfectly normal. What matters most is how I view myself, and at least my nose does a darn good job of smelling 👃🏽👃🏽👃🏽.

#maysia #maysia2021 #procreate #my art

[odyssej]

Maysia 02: Language

If we’re talking body language, there’s the nguso (lip-pointing).

#sketch #drawing #photoshop #maysia #maysia2021

[eqqbyte]

ootd things for #maysia on twitter

#its a collection of hand me downs stuff i bought at street markets and then cny things #egg.png #maysia #maysia2021 #maysia 2021 #aapi #aapi community #aapi art #asian heritage month #artists of tumblr #artists on tumblr

[castles-in-the-eyre]

Because tangyuan (汤圆; glutinous rice balls with black sesame) sounds a lot like tuanyuan (团圆; reuniting/gathering with family), it's traditional to eat these with family!

#my doodles #art tag #maysia #maysia2021

[moonraccoon]

Ok ok last thing about this for today, but I wanted to try making my self portrait less stylised. So here's self portrait version 2! ✨

#maysia #maysia2021 #my art #self portrait #artists on tumblr

[reallyhardydraws]

🇵🇭 #maysia2021 - 3) fruit

of course i had to do mangga (mango!) for fruit, although i’d second place rambutan. when we lived there i remember we ate the ripest mangos for breakfast with a spoon by scooping out the halves, and then there’s this over-eagerness we have where we eat the mangos way before they’re ripe when they’re still green by dipping slices in bagoong, (my family gets the BUENAS brand ginisang bagoong from the asian grocery in chinatown) and of course sometimes the easiest way to have a taste of the philippines on the go is to get the bags of dried mango (whenever me and my mum & siblings are on the way back home we grab several bags at the airport) 🥭🥭🥭  

#maysia2021 #maysia #draws #mango

[reallyhardydraws]

🇵🇭 #maysia2021 - 2) language

ok so my own tagalog is essentially non-exsistent. i’ve got some basic tourist phrases up in here but not a lot else. i’m told that as a kid i used to do that kid thing where i kinda filled in what i didn’t know in one language in with the other but after we moved to england permanently my mum didn’t speak filipino with us so anything i did know just fell out of my head.

so i mostly get my filipino from the magic of Very Very Sappy romance movies… the first one that made an impression on me was “kita kita” about a couple of filipinos living in japan (she’s a tourguide who goes temporarily blind and he helps her around and they fall in love.) i first watched it on a really long car ride without any subtitles so i only understood like 15% of what was being said? then when i got home i watched it with engsub with my boyfriend (it taught him what kabayan means) on netflix (yes it's on netflix!) and cried buckets lmao.

#maysia2021 #maysia #protect asian lives #draws #kita kita

[reallyhardydraws]

🇵🇭 #maysia2021 - 4) traditions

weird as it might seem, and as probably un-historic as it is, at least for me the Most Filipino Tradition i can think of is karaoke/videoke. sure, it was made in japan, but in the philippines it’s a pillar of the culture. it’s everywhere - in nearly every house i’ve ever visited over there, in every hotel, every shopping mall, even on a ferry i took once (gotta keep the passengers entertained somehow.) sometimes you find ‘em in cemeteries. in a regular day when i’m visiting my family, i’m sure to hear various renditions of journey songs at any hour (not just at night!) just ringing out though the entire province. truly discordant, yet truly iconic.

(the song on the karaoke machine is bakit nga ba mahal kita by roselle nava!)

#maysia #maysia2021 #draws #it's one of those weepy songs that also Goes Hard

[eembulan]

maysia day 3: fruit (strawberries from baguio)

[ID: A digital drawing of brightly-coloured strawberries. They form a pattern on a pink background. End ID.]

#maysia #maysia2021 #asia #asian #igorot #ibaloi #kankanaey #artists on tumblr #2021 #eembulan #with id

[eembulan]

maysia day 2: language

“sabong shi bahong” by cesar pasiw (flower in bahong) is one of my favourite ibaloi songs :D

translation:

arig mo’y sabsabong nay-asek shi bahong: she seems to be a flower, like those planted in bahong

image description: An illustration of Cesar Pasiw is holding a guitar wearing a black hat and a red shirt. Various flowers are behind him, including ylang-ylang, everlasting flowers and stylized leaves. The words around him say, “arig mo’y sabsabong - nay-asek shi bahong,” in cursive text.

#maysia #maysia2021 #artists on tumblr #igorot #asian #asia #ibaloi #kankanaey #also yeah I know there’s a day for music but I want to do something else for that day #2021 #with id #eembulan

[eembulan]

maysia day 4: traditions (female tayaw dancer)

[ID: A digital sketch of a female tayaw dancer. Her hair is curly and she wears a blanket. End ID.]

#maysia #asia #asian #igorot #ibaloi #kankanaey #artists on tumblr #digital art #maysia2021 #maysia 2021 #2021 #eembulan #with id

[odyssej]

Maysia 04: Tradition

When I think of Thailand, I think of monarchy worship. A moment from the late Rama IX's era would be the cinema playing a clip of his philanthropic work. My late grandmother kept quite a few portraits in the house. Dad wasn’t as fervent, but still mindful that we wore it during the heir’s succession.

#sketch #drawing #photoshop #maysia #maysia2021

[odyssej]

Maysia 06: Historical

The Philippines’ foremost nationalist, José Rizal enjoyed his stint as eye surgeon in the British colony, close enough that his ageing mother was able to come - and read again. What could make for a better Christmas of 1891?

A sure sign: Rednaxela Terrace, the road by his residence, was simply Alexander spelt backwards by the Chinese used to reading from right to left.

#sketch #drawing #photoshop #maysia #maysia2021

[odyssej]

Maysia 05: National Dress

The cheongsam, which took off just 100 years ago.

#sketch #drawing #photoshop #maysia #maysia2021