For this section, I wanted to showcase a few different illustration pieces that I have made throughout the years. These come after multiple years of experimenting with different tools and types of softwares. The top three are made with Adobe Photoshop, and drawing on my Wacom Cintiq tablet. The magic of this tablet is that it is essentially a monitor that you can draw on like it's a piece of paper. The stylus is incredibly advanced, as it can detect pressure, location and orientation, which allows for infinite possibilities rather than having to use a mouse or a trackpad. The first one is the one I am most proud of, because this was my very first commission. It was requested by my best friend of 14 years: she has seen my art journey first hand, and now that we're not together (she's still living in Colombia), she thought it would be a great symbol of our friendship and a way to remember me in spite of the distance,. She now has the elephant tattooed across her back!
The ones at the bottom were created with Adobe Illustrator, after I realized that vector art allows for very different kinds of art outputs. These in particular came together after playing around with the gradient tools, and doing so allowed me to become a lot more familiar with the software. I centered them around space and bears, since they are two of my favourite things. These were my first art pieces created with Illustrator and I'm very proud of how they came out; I haven't stopped using Illustrator since and now it's my favorite tool to use out of the Adobe cloud apps!
Elephant tattoo design created in Photoshop.
Stipple shading exploration done in Photoshop.
Cartoon character .drawing done in photoshop.
Gradient exploration in Illustrator.
Gradient exploration in Illustrator.
These images come from a study on bears that was meant to get me to explore different mediums, both traditional and digital. I wanted to push myself into exploring poses, textures, expressions, silhouettes, as well as positive and negative spaces. I have always loved illustrating, but up to this point I had been mostly self-taught. The graphic design program at Fanshawe allowed me to learn about a variety of mediums like the ones pictured below, but most importantly it helped me streamline the process from start to finish when it comes to creating pieces like the ones below. This is remarkably important as it helps artists become more efficient and achieve the piece they're looking to create in the most coherent way.
Among these, you can see my work with pencil, coloured pencils, watercolours, crayons, ink, and paint. Digitally, I worked with vectors, shapes, and multiple different Photoshop brushes.
