Merry (pre) Christmas!

Here's a Christmas card design! Hope you all are having a lovely holiday season!

The Orb

Here's a drawing I've been working on for a while. I swear I wasn't tripping on acid when I thought of it.

Happy Halloween!

I'm back, Bitches.

FEMINIST

Here's a quick one I did for The Guardian. I love illustrating famous faces, especially when tied to a topic relevant in current media and pop culture. The provocative article by Roxane Gay expresses frustration that the idea of feminism is embraced more readily by the public when advocated by young, beautiful celebrities. In the article, she contends that the idea of equal rights for both genders shouldn't have to be endorsed by famous people to become a  "more palatable" idea to the public. I jumped at the chance to illustrate an article like this- that brings to light how celebrity and pop culture has such a massive influence on public perception and opinion. It's an interesting and relevant subject I like to explore in my illustrations.

For the illustration, AD Matt Sullivan had the idea of illustrating celebrities who have publicly endorsed feminism hiding behind the sign that Beyonce famously sang in front of in her 2014 VMA performance. The idea was that celebrities have so much clout in terms of swaying public opinion in the direction of Feminism, but the glamor of celebrity blinds people to what feminism actually means.

Read the article for yourself and see what you think: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/-sp-jennifer-lawrence-emma-watson-feminists-celebrity

Thanks again to US Opinion Editor and AD Matt Sullivan for the wonderful opportunity!

Hey- It's been a while

Hey all! It's been a loooong time since I've posted any new work up here, but I'm back now! It's a long story as to why I haven't made any new personal work recently…mostly having to do with a quarter-life crisis and the mountains in Colorado keep calling and making it hard to sit and draw.

So here's a personal piece I've been working on for a while. I'm trying out a new technique with graphite and digital-- I just really wanted to render the heck out of something. I think things will start to head in this direction, because I get so much enjoyment out of it. 

Thank you so much for visiting my blog by the way--comments and critique is also greatly appreciated.

Christmas stuff!

Merry Christmas! Here's a card design I did for fun. I procrastinated on making these so I had to put in a rush order to get them printed, but I'm hoping to get them soon so I can sell them online. Stay tuned!

Risky Bubble

Super excited to be in this month's aiCIO Europe! This was for an article about fixed income and whether or not credit is a good way to go to find returns (I like how I just wrote that like I knew what it meant--hope I had you fooled there for a bit). The tagline that came when I got the article read: "Credit is proving popular, but is it just another risky bubble forming?". So I chose to depict some "risky bubbles" in the form of natural disasters with a ship that's about to enter one of these risky situations. I'm pretty fond of drawing natural disasters, not gonna lie. I'm also pretty fond of how this one turned out. Thanks again to AD SooJin Buzelli!