My friends Laina and Coral have been doing a comic strip of their day, for each hour they're awake, so I decided to try it myself. Sorry I'm so boring, haha! (Go look at theirs, they're much better. :) ) It's all scribbly.. I might try more of these to get better at sketching.

Wine labels!

Sample wine labels for studio in the major. (I apologize for the watermark. Better safe than sorry right?) We had to come up with three animals created in a similar, cohesive language and then make them into a cohesive identity for an imaginary company. I'm really happy with the images themselves, though the type needs a bit of work. Hopefully I'll be able to address that before the semester is over.

My boyfriend has a small bottle of wine for his dad, so we're considering swapping the label out for one of these, just to see his reaction. I wonder what people detached from the assignment would react to these?

Fable Illustration + Artist's Alley

These are a series of images of Aesop's "Eagle and the Arrow" done for the first project of the semester.

I forced myself to use gouache, which (after several initial disasters) worked relatively well, I think. I'm not very efficient with wet media, so this was an interesting experience. For both the media and style, I was influenced by the game "Okami". If you don't know what it is, you should check out the art on this site: http://artofokami.com Absolutely beautiful art.

Additionally, I am going to be in the Artist's Alley at Anime Central in Chicago this May! This will be my second time having being in the AA at a convention, but this is the first time I'll be selling at a con like ACen. (the first time was a good 4-5 years ago, and was more a trial run than anything.) I am stoked. Come say hello! :)

class doodles

Class doodles. Apparently I draw a lot of heads. I also really like pen scribbling when it's just sketching, cause then I don't care what it looks like. It's fun. :)

mermaid-ly

Decided to try my attempts at an art blog. Hopefully having one will help my motivation to draw more, even if they're just scribbles. :)


An older picture from sometime over the summer. Was playing with different effects in photoshop and trying a more rendered, atmospheric painterly effect. The whole thing was sort of impulsive and accidental. After this past semester I really want to try something rendered like this again.