Portrait Commission

Here's a portrait I did for a friend. It was so much fun!

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Little Red and the Wolf

Here's my latest illustration! Can you see the hidden image?

This illustration gave me a lot of trouble, but it's finished! Thanks for checking it out, you guys :)

The Cheshire Cat

This actually started out as a quick exercise, but then it got way out of hand, haha. I did a piece similar to this about 3 years ago, and I wanted to see how much I’ve improved since then.

You can check out the original illustration here

Also, if you're interested in seeing the process of this illustration, you can check out this time-lapse video

Mages is Here!

About a year ago, I started working on this project. It is officially here in physical form, and I am so happy with how it turned out! Here is the box art as well as the inside components. I also included some of my favorite characters from the game. There are 17 characters in total as well as a bunch of other resource and item cards that I illustrated. I’ve played the game, and it’s really fun!

Mages is a tabletop game for 2 to 5 players. The gameplay is an exciting mix between games like Bang! and Settlers of Catan. You must use resources to buy spells, level up your character, and win the Title of Master Mage!

There’s more info about the game at normalgamesco.com. You can even buy a copy of the game there!

Little Red

For character design, we got to do this really fun exercise: finish a character by using form, shape, and line. I'm not usually inclined to animal characters, so I thought I would challenge myself to finish one. Enjoy!

Breaking Bad

Man, I love Breaking Bad. I felt the need to do a little fan art, so here it is! So stoked to find out what happens this last season.

Don't do drugs, kids. Drugs are so bad.

Mark Twain

For one of my finals, we had to do either an illustration with Mark Twain or Kim Jong Un. I picked Mark Twain. We had Three hours in class to work on it, and this is what I came up with. Enjoy!

Smoke

This was done for one of my illustration classes. For this assignment, we had to pick a visual cliche from a list and incorporate it into an illustration. I chose cloud. My first thought is that clouds could look like brains (maybe?), so I did a bunch of thumbnails where a dude's brain was replaced with a cloud, kind of like an x-ray view. But then I thought that the clouds coming out his head would be more interesting, so I went with that, even though the cloud idea kind of turned more into smoke. Also, I keep looking at this and thinking 'Harry Potter'. Don't know if that's good or bad...

For this, I decided to do a basic painting in acrylic so I could get some cool textures. Then I added some details digitally.

Enjoy!

The Snow Queen

For this assignment, I decided to do an illustration based off of The Snow Queen.  this is a scene near the end of the story where Gerda finds Kai in the Snow Queen's ice cave. The Snow Queen has told Kai that he can only escape and receive and pair of ice-skates is he can solve the puzzle and spell out the word 'eternity'. There's a whole lot more to the story, so if you want to know more about it, you can read the summary here.

Enjoy!

Hansel and Gretel

Here's Hansel and Gretel! Figuring out the composition for this one was really tricky, but I think I got pretty close to what I was going for. I did a lot of research for the clothing/trees/house for this one, but I don't know how much it paid off, haha. I decided to have it take place in the late 1600's early 1700's in Germany, so I tried to research stuff from that time period.So there you have it!

I painted with acrylic!

Well, this is actually the second acrylic painting I've done in my life. The first I turned in already for grading, so I can't show it to you. Maybe later. We'll see. Anyway,  for this assignment, we had to paint a woodland creature in a non-realistic style. I chose to do something pretty simple so that I could just focs on the paint. Plus I think owls are really cool/ kind of really creepy. I learned a lot about acrylic! Mostly that painting takes WAY longer then you expect it to. Well, I already knew that, but I was reminded again. But good news is that after doing this painting  I kind of want to do more illustrations in acrylic! So we'll see if that actually happens. Maybe when I get more free time.

Goldilocks

This semester, I'm working hard to make myself to finished illustrations that look finished and have backgrounds and all of that great stuff. So I've decided to illustrate fairytales/other stories where I can use my artistic style to recreate story moments in those stories. So here's my first fairytale, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Here ya go!

Richard III

For my Narrative class, we had to design a 18x24 poster based on Richard III. Since I really love drawing people, I decided to do the scene where Richard is dreaming and all of the people he has killed have come to haunt him essentially.  The characters in the front are meant to be (from left to right) one of the princes, Henry VI, the other price, Lady Anne, Clarence, and....honestly I'm not sure about that last guy, haha. I was thinking Buckingham. the ones in the back are meant to represent the other five people he had murdered. This play is so confusing, I couldn't keep track of all the characters, so I had to write them down to make sure i remembered everything, haha.

I actually had a lot of fun with this one. It's quite a bit different from what I usually do, but it's nice to break away from what I usually do every once in a while.

Bad Bad World

So, for Digital Illustration, we had to make an illustration based off of a song. It didn't have to be a literal translation of the song, just kind of how it made us feel and all that jazz. For this one, I originally had a thumbnail completely different. My teacher basically told me it sucked, so I started over. After a while of trying to think of ideas, I finally got to this conclusion, and I'm actually really happy with how it turned out. There are still a few minor things I could work on, but I'm pretty content with it for now. 

Oh, and the illustration was based on the song 'Bad Bad World' but Guster. 

Billy and Damian

Commission of 

Billy Batson(Shazam) and Damian Wayne(Robin). It was really fun researching these characters and learning stuff about them

Korra

Here's Korra! She was pretty fun to draw, and I hope you like it!

Also, some cool news,  I'm getting married in 11 days! So you guys might not hear much of me for a few weeks after that happens. Expect more Korra stuff after, though!

Next up is Mako!

Legend of Korra- Bolin

So, recently I decided I wanted to draw the characters of the new show The Legend of Korra. I've been a huge fan of Avatar: the Last Airbender for a long time, and this show is pretty cool too. So, here's part 1 of my contribution to this show! I think it's really fun to draw fan art. It's a good way for my to just kind of relax and just draw stuff! It's also fun to twist things into your own style. Well, I hope you enjoy. 

Also, I didn't really do an Illustration Friday this week. The topic was faded. So, Bolin earthbended the rock so hard, it faded  into the distance. Boom. There ya go. I'm sorry, I'll do better next week!

Up next is Korra!

Illustration Friday- Hitched

So as many of you probably already know, I'm getting married in less than 7 weeks! Yay! So what better prompt that hitched? So for this prompt, I obviously decided to draw my fiance and I. I couldn't draw what my dress actually looks like, because then my fiance would see it and it would ruin the surprise. And that would be no good, so I drew myself in a different one instead. 

I hope you like it! Enjoy!

Illustration Friday- Jump

So, since it's Spring/Summer and I have a bit more free time(kind of), I've decided to keep myself a little  more busy by participating in Illustration Friday. The theme for this one was 'jump', so I went with this. Enjoy!