Mark Lloyd Benavente Belicario, a 32-year old full-time artist from Basak, San Nicholas, Cebu City. Belicario started to paint at a very young age. When he entered college, he did not take up Fine Arts, as the course was very expensive compared to other courses. Belicario went to the University of San Jose-Recoletos as an Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) student. Upon reaching his third year in college, he needed to stop studying due to financial restrictions. Despite his situation, he never gave up and he took this opportunity to do the thing he always loved to do: to paint. That time, he began attending workshops and started joining various competitions both local and national.