Original Character: Adobe Illustrator

My original character from a book I'm writing (only eight chapters in and second draft). I did this in Adobe Illustrator, it has been years since I've used the program like this. I wanted to get a smoother line weight and comic book ink feel. It is going back into Photoshop for color.

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Original character with snow flurries in the background. I wanted to write a story inspired by Jack Frost. I’ve always like Jack Frost and winter. So I created a character with powers of ice and snow just like Jack Frost…however, my character has more power than to just nip one’s nose. Created this concept with Illustrator and Photoshop.

Fan Art, Digital Art, Animation!

This is my process for turning traditional art to digital art. 

 My version of the Joker from Batman…work in progress. Sharpie drawn and going into Photoshop. Still not as scary as I imagined it. Fan art!

 My version of the Joker from Batman! Finished Photoshop version. It is not as scary as I envisioned the Joker to be…but it turned out pretty scary.

 I created this piece on paper using sharpie! Incubus artwork inspired on the top and my own style on the bottom. sharpies are so vibrant and love the colors. Thank god for Sharpies!!

 My music girl! Music makes you lose control  only five hours of work and it’s done.

 Legendary Super Saiyan Broly from Dragon Ball Z trilogy movies. Extremely powerful and insane character. My version of Broly, work in progress. All in sharpie…sometimes sharpies are muddy with this drawing especially. I’m glad it’s not finished and going into Photoshop. Fan art!

This is my version of the legendary super saiyan Broly from Dragon Ball Z. I made a little GIF animation of him to really bring this illustration to life

Random Sharpie Doodles

I love working with sharpies and the vibrant color they bring!

A doodle I did at work with paisleys! Flower paisley, acorn octopus paisley, shooting star eye paisley, snake eye paisley, and last but not least…blooming skull paisley! 

 Sharpie Doodle: Blue dragon with skulls and flowers.

A doodle I did at work...it's very random but I love it! The flower is cut off from the get go...not enough paper unfortunately. 

Random splatter sharpie doodle with flowers and face.

Watercolors

I've taken a class that teaches watercolor painting, it's not my favorite style of painting but, have learned a lot from watercolor and its properties.

 A watercolor rose on handmade paper.

 Bruce Lee watercolor on handmade paper. Bruce Lee is a teacher and as passionate about his techniques as an artist is with painting.

This is my version of the sign Pisces done in watercolor.  

 My first attempt in five years to do watercolor...watercolor is still my least favorite medium to use. But I think it turned out pretty well after a while of not using the medium. Oh...and my new logo!!

 Watercolor illustration of my version of Aquarius head shot. Still trying to get used to watercolor…still is my least favorite medium to work with…but i think this turned out pretty well. 

 This is my version of Taurus done in watercolor. 

This is my version of Virgo done in watercolor. 

Painted a sunset spot illustration for a thank you notes. Painted in watercolor.

Fan Art Doodles!

These are sharpie fan art doodles from Adventure Time and Soul Eater.

 My version of Finn and Jake from Adventure Time! I created this little doodle with sharpies. Finn the human is the last of his kind because an apocalypse happened and founded by Jake’s family as a baby.

 I have often wondered what Finn was short for or if Finn was just it...Adventure Time fan art!! Sharpie art.

 I love love LOVE Adventure Time!! This is Princess Bubblegum sitting on a bar of chocolate. All done with sharpie. My version of course!

My version of Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time, fan art sharpie art. I want to develop my anime style with these doodles.

Marceline the Vampire Queen from Adventure time fan art and sharpie art. Marceline and Princess Bubblegum have dated before in the comics, but did not mention this on the TV show because the network is for a younger audience. 

My version of Soul and Maka from Soul Eater sharpie doodle. Soul Eater arguably has the most dynamic character profiles of any manga series produced, in my opinion and that I've ever seen…and it’s hilarious!

Jayden Lee: The Child

Original Character Design and Concept: 

Age: 4

Birthday: Unknown

Height: 3’ 5”

Hair color: Silver

Eye color: Dark blue.

He is the child of Keita. Upon Keita’s death, all of the demon manifestation growing inside of him, disintegrated as the spirit world was restored to its natural order when Keita sacrificed herself to save the spirit world and the regular universe. Being that Jayden is an anomaly of three universes, he’s extremely powerful and can be the deciding fate of three different dimensions. Jayden has so much power, he can wield every atom of each universe to possibly destroy them, in other words, he is a force of molecular immensity. Jayden can turn sand into water just by adding protons, subtracting neutrons and adding electrons spontaneously. Jayden’s power is so immense that he is being fought over by the forces of good and the forces of evil, Niome as the good and Kihaku as the evil, to manipulate the child to do evil deeds or good endeavors. 

Jayden is still a small child and doesn’t realize his great powers. He is playful and joyful much like a child, sweet and mild mannered like his mother. 

Powers— Can control every molecule of three universes; three different dimensions. Much like a celestial God. 

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Kihaku Lang: The Manipulator

Original Character Design and Concept: 

Age: 21

Birthday: Amethyst 

Height: 5’ 11” 

Hair color: Black and white 

Eye color: Emerald 

Older brother to Niome. His home planet was Earth but sought independence on the artificial, man-made planet of Earth-B where he made friends with a radical conspirator named Timber who planned to dispose of the planet entirely because of its discrimination. Kihaku went with it thinking it as a game to accomplish. However, they failed miserably. Kihaku, Timber and one-hundred other radicals came up with the plan to escape the wretched planet aided by Kihaku and his new found apprentice, Sora. Together they all escaped with little casualties. Kihaku and Sora stayed together but Timber sought refuge on another planet. And thus, they went their separate ways. 

Kihaku is very handsome and alluring just as Niome is beautiful. He is prince of the purities and vows to marry princess of the demons, Keita. He’s charming on the outside but has a very evil and manipulative disposition.

Powers—Can be able to wield the power of light and the power of darkness. Unlike his sister, he trains for the power of darkness which consists of the blackest fire or black hole. Individuals training to wield this energy, must have dark intentions, seeking revenge, a hunger for power and a fear of death. These individuals appearance change dramatically as they continue to take in negative energy. 

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Niome Lang: The Beautiful

Original Character Design and Concept: 

Age: 17 

Birthday: Pearl

Height: 5’ 3”

Hair color: Black and white 

Eye color: Hazel

Princess of the Purities, the Purities are a spiritual species possessing an eternal life; a life of innocence and light. Her family is one of the high rank of the purities and is corrupt; being impure. She will try to save her family from themselves and by doing so, she must restore order to the spirit world. 

She is overly pessimistic and only sees all that is wrong with her own life, however, she can find great opportunity  in others’ lives. She possesses no confidence in herself and of her destiny. 

Powers—Can be able to wield the power of light and the power of darkness. She trains for the power of the light, which is a white energy fueled by the goodness of the soul and the pureness of her heart. For one to wield the power of light, one must feel protection of others and an enlightenment. The more innocence a being has, the brighter the energy protruding will be. 

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Keita Lee: The Brave

Original Character Design and Concept:

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Height: 5’ 9” 

Hair color: Black and gold

Eye color: Grey and purple

Princess of the Demons. Keita only wants things right for her world despite her heritage, she’s proof that it doesn’t matter what ethnic or historical background a person possesses. 

She’s always happy and bright and there’s never a bad day when anybody is around her. She brightens everybody’s personality. When she is not feeling happy, she doesn’t exhibit any emotion; her facial expression is blank. 

Powers—She controls the power of the air around her and can be able to make high velocity wind storms and manipulate the air at her will. 

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Striking Darkness

These are the last three pages of my comic: Striking Darkness.

They decide to descend further into the dungeon to search for Keita. April leads the way and Kat stays behind but changes into something else and ambushes April! 

 Kat attacks April by sinking her claws into her back! April goes down and Kat licks the blood of April from her claws and then starts choking on the blood.

As the fake Kat chokes, she starts to dissolve and show her true self...a demon and a fake! She dissolves completely and April is left for dead in the pitch blackness of the dungeon completely alone...for now. 

Cover Page

I have created a piece over a year ago and I wanted to resurrect it in Photoshop.

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After

I have wanted to create a cover page for my book. This perfectly illustrates my book in a nutshell. I got my inspiration from many comic book covers. But one in particular caught my eye, considering composition. 

 
Green Lantern: Blackest Night comparison.

Kate Nelson: "It was a small country, everyone was famous" Lecture

Kate Nelson took a new approach with ceramics and sculpture. Her undergraduate degree consisted of her making bottomless cylinders with uneven, organic textures upon them. She worked with preliminary sketches before she started wood firing her pieces into the organic cylinders. At this point in her life, she was tired of creating functional ceramics. So her sculptures were mainly just for aesthetics with no story behind them.

She then created a series of lidded vessels inspired by Japanese history while using a variety of materials such as rubber and cement. She still liked to wood fire her pieces. This series was still mainly for aesthetic purposes with no story or meaning behind it. Basically, Kate was also creating a series of bell jars that was pleasing to the eye but not functional.

Kate graduated, and started to attack the surface of her sculptures. She started putting words to songs in her sculptures to add a story behind the art she was creating. She then started looking at Charles Adams who was a creator of children's books and she also looked at movie stills when she became inspired to create figures, such as humans and animals alike, a story with every sculpture that included witty comments on them. She used stoneware and fell in love with the medium.

Kate's true calling came when she started looking at Henry Moore's sculptures where he creates abstract forms with aspects of a figure entwined within every sculpture.

 "But she want's to be sure because, you know, sometimes words have two meanings"

Kate began to create organic vessels with sand and glazes. At this point in her career, she started working with porcelain. She continued to observe television stills to create a story with her sculptures and added lyrics from songs to tell more of a story with the situations presented in the lyric and her use of intimate objects.

I liked the fact that I knew exactly what I was looking at when viewing her work, where I envisioned the situation between the two sculptures when reading the lyric presented. Me as an artist and me as a pedestrian simply basking in this type of art, thirsts for meaning behind why this was created in the first place and I felt like my thirst was quenched when seeing her art and her interpretation of the sculptures she created. In short, it wasn't just left up to me to interpret what I was seeing.

She put a lot of thought and care into what she was trying to convey with her audience, and she was in full control of her audience when showing her artwork. I think that when you are doing abstract artwork, I hate the fact that I have to do all the thinking and observing when a work is untitled. Often, abstracted art that is untitled doesn't get my attention as much and I spend seconds upon those artworks untitled. I like this execution of abstracted art much better.