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Hi! I'm an illustrator, all commissions and sales go directly to putting me through university.

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the pinecone climber

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Digital painting from my class, the assignment was to create the feeling of "happiness" using an egg and 1 or 2 objects. So, I painted two eggs cuddling under the blankets and waking up to warm light through the windows.

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Gouache sketches from my intro gouache painting class. First image is my final painting of three fruits, using broken color.

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My first digital painting! A final for my introductory painting class. The assignment was to use three household objects to tell a story. I made a cautionary tale for love potions, using a heart shaped bottle, a spoon, a string of pearls, and a unknown powder…

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A short comic I made for one of my assignments in my Storytelling 101 class! I tell the story of my most awkward (and first ever) middle school date. It didn't work out, I found other interests lol. (Yes, everything in this comic actually happened, he did indeed drop all of his coins, I did think of sonic the hedgehog)

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Here's my quick paper stop motion practice! I really enjoyed doing this :)

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It was so wonderful to animate the first episode of Dad Stories, Aftab Hafeez did an incredible job with the music and sound design! It's a sweet 4 minute short, and a story that I'm sure others will relate to :) Take a look!

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A animated doodle of my character June from my WIP animation :) I did the drawing on paper with pen first, then I took a photo and used Procreate to add some tones and do the animated rain.

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I made a fake poetry page of my poem Dearest Princess Snow Bunny!

If you'd like to read the poem, check it out below:

Dearest Princess Snow Bunny,

I’m sorry I ate your eyes,

your strawberry nose

and lost your plastic tiara

I hid a secret inside of you

I ate that too

it was cold, hard

caramel stuck in my teeth

three shiny silver crowns

you’re not very good at keeping secrets

You were the most generous Princess Snow Bunny

Hot chocolate poisoned you

a brown scar

when I looked at you again

Teetering off the balcony

Blind browned and yellowed

Three stories high

with ears to match

Decorated with small hands-- then two more

an accident

I mourned you in the bubble bath, pink soap in your honor

born pink

wrapped pink

a gift

cotton candy bubblegum

fragile glass bubbles blow

pinched cheeks flush

cracked fuchsia polish

sugar peach lip gloss

blow kisses from a pink mouth

Bacio Magnetico, dammi un bacio.

Kiss Magnet, give me a kiss.

Sweeter than the sugar you sneak in your tea

enough to make you rot

Oh you pretty thing!

Snow falls

five thousand five hundred and twenty-five

miles away

I do not see you again

I’ve grown four stories

traded my tongue

lost my crowns

forgotten most of yesterday

and then some

then some more

You melted a long time ago

I miss you.

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Concept and bust designs for Skatepark Portal

Alternative outfits.

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Coming back to visualizing the question "What is love?"

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Storyboard thumbnails for my animated project, Skatepark Portal

pitch: A skateboarder falls into an interdimensional portal and discovers these two worlds are colliding. He can save them, but he'll have to journey across an alien world to do it.

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a boxing werewolf! her name is Jesse, and she’s a riot

I really enjoy character design, especially modern cryptids and other supernatural creatures. I messed around with some new lighting techniques too. 

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