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A quick note about my music/art/etc.

All pieces here are by myself, whether they are drawn from photo references, real life, or my own sick, twisted brain. I have a deep, visceral, disgust for art made with generative AI and will never use it in my work, nor will I accept work made with AI for my own collaborative projects. Everything here was done with my own two hands either on a janky Wacom tablet or on paper/canvas. Long live people who make their own shit!

March 2025. Another Morgan Ywain Evans/Walking Bombs EP commission, this time in clear homage to GBH's "City Baby Revenge" cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Babys_Revenge#/media/File:Citybabysrevenge.jpg

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Listen to WB's new EP here: https://walkingbombs.bandcamp.com/album/european-hamsters-revenge-mixtape

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February 2025. Commissioned by my friend, Morgan Ywain Evans of Walking Bombs to make their EP cover. Check out their music!!! 

 

https://walkingbombs.bandcamp.com/album/magical-think-tank-ep

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October 2024. Just a little house doodle. Pens & markers etc. on loose sketchbook paper

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April 2023. Freehand digital practice from an advertisement:

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

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April 2023. Freehand digital color study from a photograph:


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

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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. 

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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

Special Project - Haiku Book 

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.

Haiku #4: (illustration completed 11.07.2020)

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The war of the weeds

Invasion of invasives

Garden overthrown

Haiku #3 (illustration completed 10.27.2020)

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Cirrus wispy whites

Southerly breeze, warm and warn

The season of change

Haiku #2 (illustration completed 07.09.2020)

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Jewel of the night sky

Goddess of love and beauty

Venus sizzling hot

Haiku #1 (illustration completed 07.02.2020)

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Decaying old tree

Nature's squatters rest, roost, perch

Looks are deceiving

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12.14.18 "The Back of Pancho Villa Deli"

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12. ??.18 "The Bodega On Harrison Avenue With The Really Good Butter Crunch Cookies"

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12.??.18. "The House That Caught On Fire"

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11.??.18. Winnikee Avenue (The Block That We Live On)

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12.05.18 "Winnikee On Nights When I Work The Closing Shift"

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