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Putting on an invisible balaclava

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Raised leg reference for a dancer being lifted in the air. I kept falling over...

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Your standard twisted hand reference. In this case, the hand belongs to a demon iguana/gorilla hybrid in mid-decapitation by a 14-year old demon hunter.

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I wanted to make a stupid comic about peeling tangerines and now I also have a stupid photo of myself. Here is the comic.

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Portrait for a zine.

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Facial Expression for Trolls

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I was supposed to be a beauty woman enjoying a new shampoo with coconut oil while I was drinking a coconut juice too.

Here is the illustration finished: http://www.maiteoz.com/coconut/

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Had to take a reference photo for a painting of Innana, the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, war, etc. for my watercolor class at KCAD. Didn't have anyone but my boyfriend to model. This is the result

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Need a sand-through-the-fingers reference but don't live next to the beach? Grits'll do. They'll also leave corn starch dust everywhere.

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for a corny werewolf on a game box

also this photo is timestamped 2:43 AM

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I needed to have a figure spitting out water for a figure class at KCAD, so naturally this is what became the reference for that

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Did a  project on a strange inside scene of domestication gone wrong.... So I thought of the photograph of Brad Pitt shaving Angelina Jolie's legs but i added a machine gun... or in this case a super soaker!

Communication arts/psychology at VCU in Richmond!

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A friend needed a gargoyle or vampire being lit from behind by the moon, and 5 minutes before class started at that. Looking at her sketch, I hop up on top of the table and strike a pose, only to have the head of the illustration department walk by the room seconds later. Just a normal day at #NewHampshireInstituteofArt

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The Little Mermaid

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yoga mom cooking my placenta

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getting punched...

(MICA)

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Editorial piece ABSOLUTE fuckery.  

Illustration @ MICA