Illustration

Drawing was my first love. At a young age, I discovered I could bring my imagination to life with just paper and pencil, and I was hooked. I sketched so much to the point that my mom realized taking away my sketchbook was a viable punishment if I misbehaved. There are several reasons I ended up going to school for graphic design instead of illustration, a notable one being that drawing was something I did for me, and I feared a college major in it would suck the life out of it. I'm still unsure if I made the right decision or not.

Nevertheless, I was still occasionally given the opportunity to dip my toes into illustration as part of my college curriculum, and those proved to be some of my favorites. Featured below are some such examples, including those which I created in a Character Design class.

album redesign

In this assignment, we each chose an album for which we were to design alternate cover art. I decided to try my hand at Dodie's You EP, and I ended up having a blast.

children's book

Throughout the semester, my class worked on their individual final projects, which were writing and illustrating a short children's book, based on or an extension of a preexisting children's media. My favorite animated Disney movie is Brother Bear, so it easily became my book's focus. I started with storyboards and character design, following my instructor's process structure until I reached the final product.

brothersbeforethebear.pdf

book icons

To this day, this remains one of my favorite assignments. Tasked with designing a four-piece simplistic icon series of a fictional media of our choice, I went with the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer for mine. Using the color hex codes from the book covers, I implemented significant plot points into each design.

flower variations

As an exercise to hone our skills with different Adobe Illustrator tools, we were asked to come up with varying flower designs.

child's redrawn illustration

My class had the opportunity to visit the neighboring grade school and work with the kids there. We each were assigned a child, for whom we had to digitally recreate whatever they came up with. The little boy I worked with had a very imaginative mind and drew a much-feared "cave monster." Needless to say, it was interesting.

Google Doodle.pdf

google doodle

We were given creative freedom to design a google doodle for whatever notable day we wished and, wanting to do something fun, chose Sesame Street's debut.

Abstract Marks BW.pdf

abstract marks

Shape and pen tool practice is important and this is an example of one of those exercises.

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