The Tortoise and the Hare

               My take of the Tortoise and the Hare featuring two robbers racing to the front of the train for a rich man's luggage.

Hollywood

My finals project for with Paul Rogers

Hollywood in 1940s

A dive bar called Florians far from the glamour of Hollywood

Lonely Boy on the Bus

My concept was to illustrate three different moods of a boy sitting alone on the bus using

lighting and composition. 

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Here's my redesign project of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.

I've changed the ending and given Kaguya a more active role. In the original story she loses her memory after the moon people put the robe of feathers around her and take her back home to the moon while her grandparents mourn over losing her. Instead, I decided to change it and make Kaguya take it upon herself to throw the robe over her and her adoptive grandparents in an act of defiance against the moon and together they forget each other. In the end, even though Kaguya returns to the moon, her last human moments were spent protecting the people she cared about the most.

Definitely going to continue working on more scenes for this project, so stick around!

Girl on the Billboard

Illustration based off the song "Girl on the Billboard" by Del Reeves

Inventive Costume Drawing

Some in-class sketches

Drowning in Ink Collection

I find inking to be very therapeutic so I kept a moleskin sketchbook constantly with me to

sort of practice with brush pens. Here's just a some illustrations I've done in my spare time

when I'm just thinking about a lot of things... and from watching a lot of sci-fi films.

Gouache Techniques

Got the opportunity to learn more gouache painting from Mike Humphries again this term! I really enjoyed this class and totally self-indulged here and there. He gave us three assignments where the prompts are: "Children's Menu" "Boy reading a bedtime story of King Arthur to his Dragon Friend who must have a Teddy Bear" and "Two Bugs in a Cottage"

The Phantom Tollbooth Assignments

This term for my Visual Development Class, we were assigned the Phantom Tollbooth.

Here are just some lateral explorations I've finished for this class.

Lily Pads and Tadpoles

 Dynamic Sketching was so fun and I'm so glad to have been able to successfully make a book for this class. I've worked as hard as I can and I'm so proud to end up with such a personal project.

My book Lily Pads and Tadpoles is made up of my own interests in slice of life stories involving bizarre family situations. Currently I'm planning on finalizing and adding additional fixes to the book before thinking about selling copies and sharing my ideas with everyone interested. But for now, I'm going to share some more pages I've done from my book and I'm looking forward to continue drawing more for this story!

A bonus picture of the display I sweated over for my books

which turned out looking better than I thought, Hoo-rah!

And bonus pictures my friend took of me collapsing from relief.