Helen De Cruz portfolio

A portfolio of my digital art (published and unpublished)

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Cow on the heath in Derbyshire, near Chatsworth House, as seen in 2023

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Cow on the heath in Derbyshire, close to Chatsworth house

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Derbyshire, cow on the heath, as seen in 2023

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Dear in the forest #ipadart #forest

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Two men in a traditional house in Seoul discuss philosophy (the 4 Mengzian sprouts and the seven emotions) while drinking tea in Bukchon Hanok Village, 

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Two wanderers witness a comet

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#Ged and his teacher #Ogion, A scene from "A Wizard of #Earthsea" by Ursula K Le Guin. #ipadArt #procreate

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Illustration for Bernard le Bouvier de Fontenelle's book "Conversations on the plurality of worlds"

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Here are illustrations I made for one of the earliest SF novels written, Margaret Cavendish' (1666) The Blazing-world. It imagines a lady who was abducted by a merchant, and taken on his ship. The ship crosses over to another universe at the North Pole and the Lady finds herself in the Blazing-world as the only survivor of the ship. This is a strange world, populated by bear-men, fish-men, fox-men and other remarkable creatures. The Lady becomes Empress of that world and discusses in detail all sorts of topics including new inventions at the time, such as telescopes and microscopes, as well as the best way of government. Eventually, the story takes a strange turn as the author writes herself into the story! The Empress wants to write her own Cabalah (mystical text based on Jewish writings) and she chooses the author, Margaret Cavendish, as her scribe, thinking that male intellectuals of the time such as Descartes and Hobbes would think it beneath them to write for her. Then, Cavendish and the Empress become platonic lovers. The Duke (Cavendish' husband eventually joins them in this platonic polyamory, and eventually the group return to England which is being invaded by a foreign nation.

I intend to make more drawings to illustrate this story

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Drawings on the beach 

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The goddess and the old fisherwoman, fan art inspired by a story by Jennifer Hudak #paper53 #madewithpaper

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This is how I imagine Ged and Lookfar, for #Earthsea (A wizard of Earthsea), Lookfar is based on Polynesian outrigger canoes and Mediterranean ships. 

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The Juggler, or Platonic solids. 

This is part of a series of drawings that are mathematically themed. 

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The Alchemist, or Klein Bottles (inspiration: Cliff Stoll). 

This is part of a series of drawings that are mathematically themed.

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Saint Francis preaching to the birds. Model is philosopher Blake Hereth. 

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This is a small selection of 42 color images of philosophical thought experiments. It will come out in a book "Philosophy illustrated: 42 thought experiments to broaden your mind" (edited and illustrated by Helen De Cruz, Oxford University Press, 2022)

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This is my illustration for Du Bois' veil, a thought experiment from his Souls of Black Folk. Full text can be read here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm

This picture is the cover art for the following book: Voices from the EdgeCentering Marginalized Perspectives in Analytic Theology, Edited by Michelle Panchuk and Michael Rea (Oxford University Press, 2020). 

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/voices-from-the-edge-9780198848844?lang=en&cc=us