This is one of my older works, but I still love the way it turned out. This was a gift to my sister, who is a big fan of Yūko Ichihara from the manga xxxHolic. I noticed that Yūko is often pictured with butterflies, so the first thing that came to mind for me was […]
I would have to say that this book is one of my favorites that I’ve read lately. I was familiar with Shakespeare’s Tempest, and it’s actually one of my favorites of his plays. Miranda and Caliban is a retelling of The Tempest, and in my opinion excellently done. I loved how much detail was put […]
I decided that for this past years self portrait that I would go back to digital to see how I could do now. I really enjoyed painting this picture, and I did it mostly on the iPad with an app called Procreate. I love Procreate because it can do pretty much anything that I would […]
This self portrait was largely experimental as I used two mediums that I had never painted with before: Indian Ink and also tea and coffee. I know that probably sounds weird, but tea paintings have been some of my favorites to look at over the years, and the tea stains the paper beautiful colors and […]
Happy New Year, everyone! Let’s make it awesome! This book was my first brush with Mr. Estleman’s writing, and it grabbed me by title alone when I saw it on the new release list and only got better as the book went on. You can imagine my surprise and delight when I did a bit […]
A while back I wrote a paper on the legend of the Baku from Chinese and Japanese mythology. To go with the paper, I drew this small illustration of the Dream Eater. I learned a lot about the folklore of this creature and had a lot of fun drawing my own interpretation of him, as […]
This work is a blend of vectors made in Adobe Photoshop, as well as Prismacolor Markers and Pencils. I had a lot of fun combining both the digital and traditional mediums, and it is one of my favorite works to this day. Have you ever done any mixed-media works? I’ve been trying to branch out […]