Anything Tasty

Food Illustrations by Monique Hilario

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Digital Friday: A Bar of Chocolate

Digital Friday: A Bar of Chocolate

When all things fail, draw yourself some virtual chocolate! Although it’s still best to get an actual one. I had fun making this illustration actually. I’ve been meaning to paint this exact image using watercolors but this came as a last minute idea when the pizza I had in mind didn’t turn out well on screen. It’s my first time to draw a hand and if you look closely at the chocolates, you could…

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Digital Fridays: Donuts

While you are reading this post, I’m now probably sketching another digital illustration. I just had to skip the posting part last week even on Instagram because I had to sort some other priorities a.k.a rushing these illustrations so I can have them test printed last Saturday! Yay! Stay tuned for updates on that printing project. Anyway, donuts. I. Was. Craving. For. It. And that nagging feeling…

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Harry Potter Series: Acid Pops and Sherbet Lemon

Harry Potter Series: Acid Pops and Sherbet Lemon

Hello! I hope you’re all having a lovely week. Here’s some virtual treats for all of you. Acid pops are lollipops designed to burn a hole in your tongue. Maybe because it’s too sour? Sherbet Lemons, also known as Lemon Drops, are Dumbledore’s favorite from the Muggle candies. Painted on a 300gsm Smooth Canson paper using Winsor and Newton Cotman paints.

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Digital Fridays: Pocky I want to practice drawing digital so I figured maybe I could do this every Friday. My main focus would still be watercolors.

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Harry Potter Series: Canary Creams

Harry Potter Series: Canary Creams

These Canary Creams were invented by none other than the Weasley Twins, Fred and George. They hexed these custard biscuits so that those who would eat it would turn into a large canary or bird. Pretty hilarious if this happens in real life! The painting process was so-so for me. It was easy to draw a biscuit shaped as a bird but the difficulty level increased a little when I had to figure out how…

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February Favorites & Learning Digital

February Favorites & Learning Digital

Today is March 15 and I can’t believe I haven’t shared yet my February Favorites. I need to change this habit of not following my calendar. Although sometimes, I can’t help it because there are things that I just couldn’t deprioritize. Her name is Work. I have a love-hate relationship with my work. I guess one of the things that keeps me from leaving is that this is the closest job I could get to…

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Harry Potter Series: Chocolate Frog

Harry Potter Series: Chocolate Frog

I was thinking of pausing a bit with this series due to some project that I can’t share yet to the world. Aaagh, excited here!  It’s finished actually. My illustrations were submitted weeks ago but because of the tight deadline and the bulk of painting I did (or so I think), I wanted to rest my hands for a while and just brainstorm. However, I realized that I haven’t even reached yet half the…

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Harry Potter Series: Sugar Quills

Harry Potter Series: Sugar Quills

How’s your Monday, guys? Still exhausted after last week’s work. I honestly feel like my team is everyone’s all-around robot. Got super stressed and emotional about this “treatment/feeling” so I really made sure that my weekend would be allotted to something that would help up my mood. Plus, I’m also way behind my painting schedule. I still have 7 more illustrations to finish before concluding…

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Harry Potter Series: Cauldron Cake

Harry Potter Series: Cauldron Cake

Happy Valentines guys! Here’s the fourth illustration for this series. Side note: I’d love to try a Cauldron Cake in the future, yum! I’m discovering right now that I don’t like putting letters in my work. Except maybe if the strokes are thinner? What do you think? But for consistency and practice I think I’ll work on it til the twelfth. Next on my series would be Sugar Quills! It looks kind of…

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Harry Potter Series: Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

Harry Potter Series: Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans

Happy Saturday guys! I was looking forward to this weekend since Wednesday haha. Here’s the third Harry Potter treat for you all. The materials I used were Canson Montval 300gsm paper, Winsor and Newton paints, and my new clear Sakura gelly roll! I spent the entire time just picking which of the two shades of gold to buy. I ended up getting the clear one *on second thought, I might go back and…

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Harry Potter Series: Butterbeer and Florean Fortescue

Harry Potter Series: Butterbeer and Florean Fortescue

Last year, my friend Ina suggested that I do another illustration series inspired by Harry Potter. I actually liked the idea but it would be challenging because obviously, it’s fictional. I’ve never been to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter also so I only have the books, the films and of course, the internet for research. But I love the Harry Potter series so I think that doing this would…

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Monthly Favorites and A New Illustration Series

Monthly Favorites and A New Illustration Series

Hello guys! Happy New Year! I know it’s already February but it’s not yet too late to celebrate the coming of 2017. I hope you all had fun during the holidays. Getting back to the groove of painting and I’m reviving this blog by posting my most recent works. To practice quick sketching, I’ve decided to do a monthly illustration about items or events that I liked or enjoyed. Here are my January…

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Eleven’s Favorite Not sure if Homestyle is Eleven's favorite but here's an Eggo for all Stranger Things fans out there. Have an awesome weekday! =)

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I hope Eleven likes Homestyle 🤔 . . . . . . #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #watercoloristsph #foodillustration #fooddrawing #foodsketch #anythingtasty #WinsorAndNewton #eggo #eggos #strangerthingstv #illustratedfood #illustration

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Cannoli and Life Lately

Cannoli and Life Lately

I can’t believe it’s now September! Christmas and 2017 is fast approaching. What ever happened to the past months and all my resolutions? My absence in WP and IG for the past weeks were again because of work. A few months ago, I got promoted. It was all good until we were greeted by the news that my bosses tendered their resignations at the same time. The team’s spirit was just really down and…

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I was afraid I would mess this up because it's been a month since I last painted (hi, work) 😑 Anyway, here's the final Cannoli piece that I shared last week at IG stories 💖 Reference was from the350degreeoven.com via Pinterest. . . . . . . #watercolor #watercolorph #aquarelle #watercoloristsph #foodillustration #foodillustrator #illustratedfood #foodsketch #cannoli #fooddrawing #anythingtasty #italiandessert #italianfood #WinsorAndNewton

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Sun Maid Raisins

Hello, hello! So much is happening in my day job that I have to pause again for a bit with my painting sessions. Here’s something that I managed to finish last week. One of my colleagues shared with me his mini box of Sun Maid raisins. I love dried raisins but I don’t find them as tasty when mixed with dishes *they’re mushy ugh*. Anyway, I found the box and the mini  raisins cute so I took…

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