OWNLY is a metaverse-focused platform that allows creators and collectors to optimize ownership and utility through innovative applications of non-fungible tokens (NFT). Ownly is created to be a meeting place of artists, gamers, and collectors in the crypto and NFT space.

Kcir Johan grew up creating art. He started sketching and drawing when he was around 4 years of age. He recalls comfortably lying on his chest on the ground, making drawings while narrating made-up stories about the characters he created.

Fast forward to 2015, Kcir Johan was one of the selected artists to participate in The Major Arcana project, where he was assigned to illustrate the single-edition Hermit tarot card. This was his favorite work and collaboration ever since.

When asked about his ​​thoughts on online galleries compared to traditional ones, Kcir Johan said, “Online galleries are better compared to traditional ones. The scope of online galleries is limitless while traditional ones are bounded by four walls.”

Charlie Loma aka PANDA NOYPI started his art journey when he became the Head Cartoonist of his school’s student publication. Now a full-time Digital Artist, PANDA NOYPI plays around mostly with black outlines and details. He loves experimenting with different strokes, shading, color mixing, and then putting them all together. Simply put, his works all convey good vibrations and simply have something to be happy about.

Dan Vincent Barotilla is an artist that admits he doesn’t have any art style because his painting technique constantly evolves. Born and raised in Legazpi City, he cites Salvador Dali, Rodel Tapaya, and Ronald Ventura as some of the artists that he look up to.

One interesting fact about Barotilla is how he discovered his love for painting. He flipped through a calendar with paintings of national art competition winners for students and that prompted him to start his career as an artist. With his passion and skills, he won 1st place in an on-the-spot painting competition during a local festival in the province.

Barotilla believes that tokenizing physical art is the next big step artists should take, emphasizing that NFTs are the future of art.

Glenn De Guzman describes his art style as surrealism and social realism expressing his emotions, goals, and ideas in the realm of personal, social, and political issues. He is a resident of Bacacay, Albay who finished his Fine Arts Major in Painting at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila back in 1992.

He won first Hon. Mention during the 12th PLDT-DPC Visual Art National Competition and already had his first exhibit at R Gallery last year. Some of his inspirations are Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dali, Renato Habulan, and Neil Doloricon.

De Guzman is looking forward to showing other artists endless possibilities and opportunities through NFTs.

Camelo “Mel” Baranda is an artist from Bacacay, Albay. This painter, who has been part of over ten exhibits, developed his early love for drawing upon the sight of characters in now-defunct Pinoy Komiks.

He pursued BSFA at UST-Legazpi and worked as a freelance Cleanup In-Betweener in animation. Later on, he discovered that his passion still gravitates toward his childhood imaginations and discoveries.

Inspired by Salvador Dali, Vincent VanGogh, Luis Royo, and Glenn de Guzman, he describes his art style as a mixture of surrealism and social realism. Using oil paint as his medium, his artworks tend to go towards themes such as nature and society, focusing on social conflicts and political injustices.

Marso is a fine arts graduate at the Technological University of the Philippines. She has been a graphic designer and graphic artist for 8 years, specializing in illustrations, merch, and packaging designs.

Marso describes her art style as candy-colored kaleidoscopic fractal figures of geometric and polygonal vectors. Her art is usually psychedelic-themed and she believes that there’s energy in flowing lines and colors which gives out the visual value of happiness.

Boii Mustache is an Albay-based artist that uses different mediums in his works. His focus is on traditional painting, oils, pencils. does custom toys and also practices 3d digital art. His painting style is realism, mostly black and white paintings.

His inspiration for his character is himself. Long haired raggedy guy with a mustache existing on different personalities. He also has done community-based mural projects along with different organizations. Joined mural and painting competitions and shows.

Eugene is a multimedia artist that focuses on digital illustrations, digital painting, concept art 2D and 3D. He also creates traditional artworks such as paintings, portraits and so on.

He served many clients locally, nationally and internationally. He had a collaboration project with Titus pens, and was invited to be a guest artist to make doodle wall art with other artists.

Lei is a multi-faceted artist. Although his main focus is digital illustration, he also includes traditional illustration, mural work, product design, and toy customization in his services.

He coined a term for his art style. He named it “Infinity Mix” because of the mixture of endless elements and details interacting together to form a scene.

Lei served multiple local and international clients. He has worked with NBA Store, Samsonite Red Philippines, Capital PH, Rhinoshield, Asus PH, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Kipling, Lazada SG, G-Shock PH, Globe, Daniel Wellington, WWF Philippines.

John Kaizen “Chen” Naje, also known as “Chenandink” within the art community, is an artist based in Camalig, Albay, Philippines. With over 40,000 followers in his Instagram account, Chen is one of Bicol’s pride when it comes to art and illustration.

He is recognized for creating detailed illustrations of nature and wildlife using pen and ink. With his Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts and extensive experience in making illustrations, he has landed multiple commissions for private individuals and collectors around the world.