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Digital Illustrations

Stoic Studio, the team behing the award-winning strategy RPG "The Banner Saga", was looking for a new artist for their sequel game. I had fallen in love with the game's concept years ago when I backed it on Kickstarter, so I was over the moon when I heard they were looking for an artist. Unfortunately, I wasn't picked, but I learned a lot from working on this piece, and I am deeply in love with the entire composition. This piece is easily the largest completed composition that I have ever worked on, at a total of 16 hours and 38 minutes, and in my opinion, my strongest!
I enjoy "The Sims" games, and I enjoy puns even more, so I decided to draw up "The Sim-ply Sweet Shoppe". I do not claim to own "The Sims", as that belongs to EA Maxis, but I like to think that I was the first to come up with this idea!
I call this one "The Tormented Tavern". In this image, what appears to be a welcoming tavern is actually haunted and menacing, but you can only tell if you look through the cracks in the glass. The devil is in the details, as they say!
The Big Bad Wolf is one of my favorite villains, and in this painting, I imagined him as a prison inmate out in the yard.
Pictured above is an original character of mine. She's a spell-caster, as you can see from the book floating out of her hand.
A birthday present I drew for a friend. We both love dragons, so it really was meant to be!
A tattoo I designed for a friend. There's just something endlessly flattering about someone wanting your artwork permanently on their body!
This is the first panel for an animation I worked on in college. It was titled, "The Meat Market". I love personification and puns, so I mashed the two together in this animation about a bunch of breakfast foods going to a strip club.
This was one of two illustrations I created for an interior design blog, but the client ended up pulling the project. That said, I still enjoy the piece and want to share it!
This was the other illustration I created for the interior design blog, but the client ended up pulling the project. That said, I still enjoy the piece and want to share it!
 
This is a digital portrait of Laverne Cox. She's a highly visible trans activist and an amazing actress, and I admire her greatly. This piece was done in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet, and it took me about 2.5 hours.
This image is based on a photograph that was posted on the RedditGetsDrawn subreddit. It took me 3 hours and 40 minutes.
Digital Illustrations
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Digital Illustrations

Examples of some of my best digital pieces.

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