My illustrations are rooted in storytelling, symbolism, and expressive detail, blending hand‑drawn techniques with digital refinement. Each piece begins with raw sketches that capture emotion and concept, then evolves through layered experimentation in texture, color, and composition.
I explore themes of identity, nature, and perception, whether through rhetorical poster design, anatomical studies, or imaginative visual metaphors.
What ties my work together is a focus on connection and resonance: illustrations that invite viewers to pause, interpret, and feel. By combining traditional pencil work with digital platforms, I shape images that are both grounded in craft and alive with contemporary energy.
ILLUSTRATION
Movement of Rhythm
Color Theory Illustration: This piece explores the relationship between color, motion, and emotional rhythm. Using vibrant hues and flowing forms, the composition captures the dynamic energy of a fish in motion, translating movement into visual cadence.
The project focused on how color choices and
directional flow can evoke rhythm, harmony,
and life within a static image
What the FRIDA (WTF)
Mash-Up Diptych Project: This project explored voices ahead of their time, reimagined in a modern context. I chose Frida Kahlo, highlighting her enduring influence and imagining how her identity and artistry might resonate today.
The diptych contrasts her historical presence with a contemporary vision, showing how timeless creativity adapts while staying authentic.
Digital Awakening
My first digital drawing using Adobe Photoshop explores identity, transformation, and emotional multiplicity. The central figure is a stylized self-portrait infused with supernatural and cybernetic elements, surrounded by alternate expressions that reflect shifting moods and personas.
This piece marks a personal and technical milestone, blending expressive character design with symbolic storytelling in a vibrant, layered composition.
My Little Soda POP
Illustrator Typography: This piece explores playful word art through bold typography and pastel pop-art aesthetics. Using Adobe Illustrator, I designed a bubbly, energetic composition that emphasizes the word POP with comic-style explosion effects and glossy
soda-inspired elements.
The project celebrates expressive lettering and visual rhythm, turning type into a dynamic, character-rich
focal point. (KpopDemonHunter fan art)
Bard On the Beach: Rhetoric, Poster 1
Created as part of a rhetoric practice project, this poster translates Beatrice and Benedick’s witty exchanges into visual metaphor. Hand sketches were developed into vector forms in Adobe Illustrator, then refined with Photoshop for texture and depth.
The bouquet imagery symbolizes how sharp banter blossoms into affection, showing language as both
playful and connective.
Bard On the Beach: Rhetoric, Poster 2
This design explores the duality of romance in Much Ado About Nothing. Initial hand-drawn sketches informed the thorn-and-flower composition, later polished in Illustrator and layered with atmospheric effects in Photoshop.
The rhetoric is embodied visually: love’s beauty is inseparable from its risks, echoing the play’s tension between comedy and conflict.
Bard On the Beach: Rhetoric, Poster 3
The most dramatic of the series, this poster uses puppet strings and fire to symbolize manipulation, destiny, and trial. The imagery began with expressive sketches, then evolved into bold vector silhouettes in Illustrator, with fiery gradients and textures added in Photoshop.
The rhetoric becomes visceral: characters bound by circumstance, tested in the flames of
honor and deception.
Goddess Guide
This hand‑drawn digital piece explores Color Theory through visual resonance, connecting textures that appear alike across different forms. Clouds are shaped into fluffy hair, evoking softness and natural beauty, while a sailor ship at sea suggests journey and resilience.
Glass rocks gathered from a BC beach shimmer like rose petals, tying natural fragments into a poetic whole.
The work highlights how color and form guide perception, transforming everyday elements into symbolic storytelling.
Breakdown & Rebuild: The Son of Man
This project reinterprets René Magritte’s iconic 1964 surrealist painting The Son of Man, known for its mysterious figure in a bowler hat with a green apple obscuring his face. Using a digital platform and hand‑drawn techniques, the piece was deconstructed into greyscale forms and then rebuilt, emphasizing structure, tone, and texture rather than color.
The process highlights how meaning shifts when stripped of its original palette, allowing the viewer to focus on contrast, composition, and the tension between concealment and revelation.
Bone Structure
This pencil illustration establishes the foundation of the human form by mapping the skeletal framework. The study emphasizes proportion, alignment, and the underlying architecture that supports movement.
By focusing on bone placement, the drawing reveals how structure shapes the body’s silhouette and informs every layer built upon it.
Muscle Layer
The second stage explores musculature, showing how fibers and groups wrap around the skeleton to create volume and strength. Rendered in pencil, the illustration highlights tension, curvature, and anatomical rhythm. This layer demonstrates how muscles define contour and motion, bridging the hidden framework with the visible surface.
Skin & Surface
The final layer brings anatomy to life by adding skin, texture, and external detail. Pencil shading captures subtle variations in tone and surface, showing how underlying bones and muscles shape what we see on the outside.
This stage completes the progression, illustrating how internal structures inform outward
appearance and realism.
