My Portfolio

This is based off an article about Toys "R" Us going out of business due to competition with Amazon, Walmart, Target, etc. To the left is the saying, "Nice Guys Finish Last," the article title, author, and first few paragraphs.

Leadership with only animals Isolation with an interior Revolution with landscape The divine (7 deadly sins) with only a still fife Love with a sequence Fear with shadow (Jekyll and Hyde) Greed with hands For this illustration project, we were given seven concepts, and we had to illustrate them with seven given nouns (hands, a still life, etc.). We can use whichever concepts for whichever nouns we want; but they all had to be used only once. They also had to be in black and white. Every picture was drawn, scanned, and colored in Photoshop.

Zankel Hall Poster NYC Trip The pink piece was an assignment for my Illustration Studio course. The assignment was to recreate a poster for a Zankel Hall event in NYC. I chose to design the "Students from the iSchool and Art" show. This event in particular was a "battle of the bands-esque" type (old-school vs. present day). As a result, I made Angus Young from AC/DC and Gene Simmons from KISS for old-school; and Adele and Katy Perry for present day. The black and white work was for the same class. We went to NYC about a month ago, and the assignment was to illustrate how our day was. We all started at the Society of Illustrators. I absolutely loved it, to the point in which I stayed behind. As a result, I was alone the rest of the cold, rainy day, and made my way from 62nd street (where the bus dropped us off) to 25th street (where the bus would pick us up). I actually enjoyed the long walk, and the wind too. I was just didn't like the rain. Both

Only seven or eight of these paintings are completed so far because class time is limited; but I come into the studio during my free time to work on each one a bit. They will eventually be completed, with new paintings to come as well.

These are candid scenes with people going about their lives. I have been working on these since my winter break. 

Female Body Male Body These are drawings of the male and female bodies (front and side).