This is a fictional poster for a real event. The Glitch Mob’s first album was called Drink the Sea, and that’s where the core idea for this image comes from: the ocean flowing over some kind of threshold. The pillars are reminiscent of an audio visualizer, and bear faint markings of the band’s logo, in front of a shadowy San Francisco skyline with a moon in a state similar to what it would be showing that night. The biggest challenge with this piece was maintaining perspective among the different elements.

Progress from color blocking to initial draft and then revisions.

Tools used: Illustrator, Krita, Photoshop

The goal here was to tell a story about my life, so I attempted to show the gradual evolution of myself from being more tech and game focused to being more artistic and design-focused. The fox in the center is to represent myself, looking towards the future.

Tools Used: Illustrator, Krita

This is an abstract self-portrait. The color palette was chosen to represent anxiety; the greens represent feelings of fear and the blues freezing up. The dim clock-like background mandala represents time marching on regardless. The most challenging part of this project was the hair, it was hard to find a good way to represent it with a combination of simplicity and veracity.

Tools Used: Illustrator

This 8-page hand-cut and -folded zine tells a simple story in a few panels using a consistent graphic vernacular and color palette. There’s even a secret back panel when the book is unfolded. The assignment started with storyboard-like sketches before producing the illustrations, setting up the panels for printing, and the simple papercraft of assembling the final product.

Tools Used: Illustrator, desk tools

This project started by choosing one of a few cities as a travel destination and then researching the sights and places of that city. This solution used the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park; a variety of assets were created and then combined to communicate this view of the city.

Tools Used: Illustrator

This self-portrait started as an exercise in choosing values to create the illusion of depth, and moved on from there to changing all the colors to grays while maintaining the effect. Finally, it came to resolving the image’s depth in a series of patterns created earlier, to maintain that same feeling of volume that the earlier images had.

Tools Used: Illustrator