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.

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.

Digital Life

Live model digital paintings I've done on week 7 in digital life class.

Each one is about 30-45 minutes

My midterm assignment for this class was to pick one theme from his list and do a poster or visual development piece. I chose to do The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. 

The scene I decided on was Edmund confronting the White Witch in her castle.

Various Edmund designs:

Various White Witch designs:

Final outcome:

Sketching for Entertainment Portfolio

Here are some homework assignments I've done for my Sketching for Entertainment Class with Will Weston this spring term.

Prompt: "The Girl walks into her father's studio and sees the most beautiful kite"

I decided to set it around WWI in France, the studio belonging to an ex-pilot father

Prompt: "Gnome Restaurant"

 I decided on a western bar run by gnomes where they are visited by two thieving sisters that want to steal more than just lunch.

Prompt: "Kids shipwrecked on an island"

I did an island being inhabited by shipwrecked Japanese monk children, but the island turns out to be more than it seems.

Inventive Costume Drawings

These are my homework assignments done for Will Weston's Inventive Costume class.

The Prompt was "Two Teenagers at a costume party, both wearing two different time period clothing"

I decided to pick the early 19th century and the 20th century costumes.

The final product, a romantic meeting between two starving teenagers

Another Prompt: "Two bears dressed in 19th-20th century clothing" 

I did a couple loose sketches to get the general body language of bears as well as figure out

how to design the shapes of the two bears. 

I decided to base them off a Charles Gibson drawing of a couple on a boat surrounded by swans.

Final product, I don't know how dates are supposed to work

Mer Koi Collection

Another assignment for my digital illustration class where I had to create a licensing character. I researched 12 types of Koi fish and just create mermen characters out of each type. The plan was to make them into either stationary or calender themes. It was super tedious to do so many characters with such a tight schedule but I would say it worked out pretty well in the end.