Talofa lava
#PortfolioDay
🪸🌊 I'm Olioli and I love to illustrate nature, warm memories, and mix analog & digital media :✹) Looking for freelance or full time opportunities this spring 🌱♡
Email: obuika98
@gmail
.com
Maui just had hundreds of homes, local businesses, historic sites, ʻāina, & 6 lives destroyed in fires spread by hurricane winds.
THREAD of verified mutual aid you can d0nate to help supp0rt thousands of ʻohana displaced back home 🧵👇🏽 PLEASE kōkua, rt, share! (
@AnuheaNihipali
)
for like.. future ofmd fanartists.. captioning art of a brown indigenous man + yt man with "the taming of" is not that great given the history of exotifying & equating bipoc as animals/savages. altho i understand blackbeard IS canonly associated w the kraken, pls jus b careful
PLEASE stop vacationing in/moving to Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, n Kauaʻi. You are actively participating in violent settler colonialism. Making it impossible to keep up with the rising cost of living, pushing native Hawaiians from their land and homes, and
one of my favorite pieces from my thesis about growing up in Hawaiʻi !! the power of a simple homemade spam musubi is no joke, especially if its from your mama :'-)
yooo non biney day??? hey
#VisibleNonbinary
im Olioli, a Sāmoan-American illustrator and ocean enthusiast from Hawaiʻi 🌊 i just like to draw things that make me happy :'-)
i dont think i see a single pacific islander in da qrts 😢 so i hope some of my pasifika moots see dis and show their art if they want to! 🌺🏝️
anywayz happy aapihm 🤙🏽 im a Sāmoan 🇼🇸 illustrator with a big love for nature, bright colors, and combining digital & analog media :-]
if u ever get the chance, please watch AND read Children of the Sea (海獣の子供) by Daisuke Igarashi (ill link below)... its about life, death, and birth and how they are one and the same. the movie is beyond stunning and the manga is terrifyingly beautiful + has a lot more in it
...today im 6 months on testosterone 😈🏳️⚧️ im queer, fa'afatama and go by they/he pronouns! happy pride to all my friends n indigiqueer sibs out there! i love n miss u all sm!!! 🥺🌈☀️ 🌺
one page from my comic in the
@hqartbook
! aftersales are open baby! go grab some sweet merch or a leftover copy of the book before theyre gone 🏐🥵 this was my first zine and it was such a joy to work on it with so many cool artists :'-)
happy pacific islander & asian american heritage month! i wanna be more connected to my fellow pacific islander creatives across da ocean and would love it if u dropped ur stuff or a link below!! ⬇️🏝️ ill rt as many as i can thru da month! 🌺 mahalo & faʻafetai lava for any rts❣️
reminder for folks who don't live Hawaiʻi.... we don't have many resources and YOUR hotel rooms and rental units are needed to house OUR people. we constantly have to conserve water but you dont.
DONT VACATION HERE! (via
@alohanohie
on insta)
I dont want to put gore on da tl so im qrting here.. i kno a few moots who follow that artist (and like, ofc u can follow whoever idc) but I do need yall to b a little critical of a white artist who constantly draws poc (a lot of the times asian) brutalized for a gore aesthetic
day 1 - opening! ⛅️ i was generally inspired by all the running scenes and vast landscapes :'-) feel free to listen to yura yura while looking at this...
#narutaugust
also i kno we all love melanin but drawing a maori actor waaay darker than he actually is might b playing into your own stereotypes of pasifika ppl. when it comes to cartoons by all means interpret how u like, taika IS a real person & i hope we treat his character w care