illustration | semayem

April 2023. Freehand digital practice from an advertisement:

https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/568931365439298492/

April 2023. Freehand digital color study from a photograph:

https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/568931365439588435/

December 2022. Digital freehand study of a photograph:

https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/568931365439557826/

October 2022. Final project for an online animated GIF course I took through MICA. This technically loops but the actual GIF file is too big for a website, so you get the M4A I made that includes the artist's music. We had to make an "animated poster" for a musician we liked. Go listen to Mei Semones if you haven't heard her before.

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September 2022. Larger-scale freehand reproduction of a sketchbook drawing from life. Coffee Point, Alaska.

August 2022. Album cover for Alpha Girl's "The Original Cast Recording." Pen and watercolor marker on watercolor paper. I did a full digital color study of this in between the outlining and the final coloring.

December 2020/January 2021 - Commissioned by a friend for one of his friend's birthdays. He said there are two elements that need to be included: this Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, and a Porsche. Pen and ink on a massive piece of paper

When Covid hit, my aunt began to write haikus about her daily life and her love of nature as a way to process what she was experiencing. As a surprise Christmas gift, my mom compiled all of the poems she had written between March and October of 2020. My mom asked me to pick a few to illustrate, and then she compiled everything into a book for my aunt. The following four haikus were written by my aunt, and were "published" with the accompanying illustrations.