2013, Paint Tool Sai. I drew this for Psychokinetic, a Mother/Earthbound series fan zine published in 2016. This is Kumatora, a character from Japanese game Mother 3. Mother 3 deals with themes of loss, memory, power, gender, psychics, mother nature, and commercialization. This character in particular is a psychic tomboyish princess and my favorite character […]
2013, Photoshop. A work-in-progress design comp for the MTAC 2014 website theme. Keeping with large use of the year’s theme (love) and colors (pink and sky blue), this new general layout for the homepage was aimed to create a more useful and dynamic display of information to visitors, which could easily be updated as well […]
2013, Paint Tool Sai. A rapid warm-up experiment with simple colors and shapes, featuring an anthropomorphized Pokémon. The sixth generation of main-line Pokémon games came out this year. I’ve been playing them since I was 11 — so, for most of my life. It’s interesting and awesome to see people who are 10 playing it now, […]
A cute, cartoonishly detailed theme logo I created as Visual Communications Coordinator for Middle Tennessee Anime Convention. This is for MTAC’s 2014 theme, “love”. It flourishes with cherry blossom petals, a powerful visual in Japan often used in love-oriented anime.
Last year’s holiday card to my friends and family, featuring my original characters. This was my first artwork on which I used spot gloss, which is just fantastic. (It really brings out the bright colors — I love bright colors, if you haven’t noticed.)
2012, WordPress. I received a static two-page Photoshop design and created a responsive WordPress template based off of it. HTML5 valid with modern CSS3. Visit Website
2012, Photoshop. An explosive promotional poster for a local event.
2011, mixed media (newspaper, bristol board, marker, canvas). Piece created to raise funds for the 2011 disaster in Japan. It was included in black & white in Aftershock: Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan. The canvas is patterned with glued excerpts from The Tennessean about the tragic tsunami’s effects in Japan, including news from the […]