stop waiting!

 

League o Legend

Alma Mater

 

Scrap Latin

Just Enough

 

The Personality of Thought

 

Orly the Adventurous

The children's book was created with watercolors. It is a story about an owl that loves to read and sees the world through his imagination as he is reading.  He invites all the animals in the forest to join him and discover all the exciting adventures you will find in books. 

Make Art not War

 

I created this illustration during the Russia-Ukraine war. Why waste our time fighting with each other, when we could be doing better things, and live in peace? Protest art is our way to combat war.  We artists have a powerful tool and we must use it to show the world is better when it is peaceful.

STRIKE !

 

Dancing in the Dark

 The rhythmic pulse of electronic music had been teetering up in intensity for an eternity, building and building until you felt like it would burst; like you found yourself slowly leaning further and further over the edge of a cliff, heart racing as gravity begs you, and your own heart commands you, to give into its power. Before you fall, you’re always weightless. You float in limbo as the music cuts and the lights of the club snuff out, the lingering glow of their dimming fire fades just as quickly as you can notice it. In the moment of anonymity of a crowd packed into this dimly lit warehouse, you rip your pierced nose up across a collared wrist and inhale a potent mixture of various carcinogens. Your nose burns as your eyes widen and your brain starts twitching, a new fire lit inside of you to move, go, keep going, never stop. Like yourself, only a fragment of their skin is covered in a fanatical arrangement of precious metals and woven plants. What’s left is soft and warm as it presses into your own flesh, grabbing and pulling you closer as you wrap your body around them. As your lids shut behind the tinted lenses on your face, you press your lips onto theirs. In your peripheral vision, a sea of arms rises and points to God. And then the beat drops.

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Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy.

 

Nuwa,. A Creation Story

Children's book story board about how ten thousand years ago the world give birth to the first human. Her name was Nuwa. She then molded human beings out of clay and created them. There was also a big gap in the sky so she filled out the sky with a colored stone creating the world.

 

Be Here

 

Smile

 

linedance

 

Smile Together

 

All Generated Images of Pope Francis in Puffer Jacket foul the Internet

 

Sea Wave Meditation

 

Peaks and Shallows

 

I did this study with watercolor at Lake Osceola on the campus of the University of Miami. The greatest challenge was to work around the white highlights in the beginning, as proper watercolor dictates that one should not use white paint afterwards. I layered values of blue, working from low opacity to high opacity to build the forms of the ripples. This exercise gave me good insight into how to use different amounts of water to make strokes of different values.

Art Q

 

Spring Break

 

Initial

 

Freedom

 

From Russia with Love

 

Peer Pressure

 

Gaia, our Mother

This is a colored pencil illustration inspired by a sculpture in the Lowe Art Museum. It is a rendition of Mother Earth as a mountain.

 

Gianna

 

The 1000 Year Coconut

 This illustration was made with pen and watercolor. The subject is a capital P represented in form with a palm tree. The linework creates the majority of the forms, with the watercolor loosely applied and not confined within the lines. The background is abstracted, with splashes of yellow to represent sand and the sun. Splotches of green on the horizon line indicate further vegetation in the distance but the hierarchy is clearly focused on the P.

Condor Typography Specimen Poster

This is a typography specimen poster for Condor, created by David Jonathon. The font was created in 2009, a time in which the iPhone gained massive popularity and global availability. The overall design of the poster is inspired by the appearance of the late 2000's technology replaced by the iPhone, including cool grays, chrome finishes, and basic shapes.

 

Snell Roundhand

The Snell Roundhand Typeface

 

I have always loved the script style as that is how I write personally. It is a script typeface that was designed to have the style of simplicity and efficiency. You see the letters close together, but the spacing is easy to distinguish.  Here I wrote who created it, and how it looks in capital letters, lowercase letters, and numbers. I used an "S" to create a pattern on the lefthand side of the picture plane. I also illustrated the word "Round" In a square box. 

 

Grasshopper and the Ant

This illustration is inspired by Aesop's fable "The Ants and the Grasshopper." The fable tells of a grasshopper that spends his entire summer playing music instead of storing food like his ant companions. When winter comes, the grasshopper starves and begs the ants for food. 

The story intends to promote hard work and preparation, but I chose to illustrate the need for balance in life. The grasshopper is not intrinsically wrong for wanting to enjoy summer, he just should have also taken care of himself. Likewise, the ants are not wrong for taking responsibility for their survival. They both just lack balance. While the original script teaches the dangers of too much pleasure, my flipped dialogue teaches the dangers of too much work - missing out on actually living.

Life is like Chocolates

 

The Addicted Lover

 

The Addicted Lover aims to find their beloved because they cannot live without them.