>>2462575As someone who is from there, I can't tell you for certain. I'm pretty sure that many "amateur" Filipino artists (as in those who don't publish their work in more traditional ways like art galleries, but instead online via Tumblr, Patreon, DeviantArt, etc.) do take a lot of inspiration from anime-style drawing. We're constantly exposed to it from peers, games and mass media. There are specific TV channels that only air anime (Animax Asia and Hero TV to name a few). Because of this constant exposure to anime at a young age, many Filipino teens yearn to draw manga-esque styles at a young age. You can get pretty popular among your peers there if you can draw really, really well despite it being akin to North America's stigmatized "nerd culture."
So yes, there are a lot of Filipino artists who employ anime-rooted styles in their works, just because it's a norm there. No one bats an eye. However, I can't say for sure that of the total number of artists online, a disproportionate number of them are from the Philippines. While art faculties in bigname universities like Ataneo de Manila, Polytechnic University of the Philippines and de la Salle University don't disallow their students to build upon their anime style of drawing, there really isn't a popular university that's specifically known for its visual arts program, unlike in the US or Europe. The dominating faculties there have always been law, business, engineering and the medical field.
So sadly, many artists get their passions pushed aside for a stable income instead, which is already hard to do in such a developing nation. Mikkoukun is pretty smart to use Patreon as a means of getting that stable income (1 USD = approx. 40 PHD. A haircut at the barber's costs 20 PHD or 50 cents USD) without sacrificing his love of drawing.
And to anyone who hates it when someone starts yelling "pinoy pride!!1!" online, don't worry. I'm just as annoyed and embarrassed as you are, and that's coming from one of them lmao
