My illustration work explores atmosphere, emotion, and experimentation through a mix of dark surrealism, stylized portraiture, and graphic composition. Using both digital and hand drawn traditional-inspired techniques, these pieces focus on creating texture, pushing contrast, and visual storytelling to create expressive and immersive imagery.
"Sanctum Obscura" is a dark atmospheric portrait created in Procreate using charcoal brushes, and a reverse charcoal technique. This piece explores themes of isolation, sacrifice, and hidden identity while blending gothic imagery with psychological horror.
This Japanese-traditional inspired piece was made in Procreate, and combines the traditional pieces of a Yukata and an Oni mask, which are typically worn for summer festivals in Japan. This piece I was inspired to make to go along with my school magazine project, which centered around Japan, and Japanese themes.
This digital portrait, made in Procreate, uses dramatic lighting, smooth gradients, and neon color tones to create a moody and atmospheric composition. Inspired by cyberpunk aesthetics, this piece focuses on emotion, contrast, and subtle detail to capture a quiet sense of intensity and vulnerability.
This black-and-white floral illustration combines organic linework with cybersigilism to create a balance between delicacy and distortion. Through intricate textures and flowing composition, the piece explores the juxtaposition between natural beauty and abstract design.
This stylized illustration reimagines a character from Laika’s ParaNorman through exaggerated proportions, & neon color palettes, using color pencils as the medium. Inspired by the film’s eerie yet playful aesthetic, this piece blends the horror themes & visuals from the movie with a more experimental and expressive approach.
This stylized portrait, made in Procreate, uses bold color, exaggerated fashion elements, and playful proportions creating a vibrant character-focused illustration. Inspired by early 2000s pop-punk & futuristic aesthetics and cartoon design, this piece blends fashion, and personality through expressive shapes and saturated color.
This black and white stipple illustration uses contrast, texture, and negative space to create a dark atmospheric composition. Inspired by horror & gothic imagery as well as traditional ink techniques, this piece focuses on decay, and subtle detail through hand drawn elements, using acrylic marker and pens.
A gothic-inspired portrait that was made in procreate, this dark piece again plays with themes of isolation, and sacrifice. Using the reverse charcoal technique again, along with the charcoal brushes, the texture throughout the piece is highlighted, and adds to the atmosphere.
This rendition of Jinx from Netflix's Arcane was inspired by the character's struggles with mental health, and sanity. Made in Procreate with markers & airbrushes, it visually showcases the character's internal struggle with themselves and their fight between bad and good.
This hand drawn black and white stipple illustration, uses negative space as a contrast to showcase the various dark elements throughout. Inspired by horror & gothic imagery, the teeth, help to highlight the broken texture throughout the face, and explores the theme of there is more than meets the eye.
This piece is a memorial illustration for my childhood cat that passed away, it was hand drawn using a graphite pencil. I wanted to really highlight all of her facial features, and her tabby lines. Doing my best to portray her personality, I highlighted the light in her eyes, and each individual hair, as well as her unique birthmark on her mouth.
Inspired by traditional Japanese imagery, and ink techniques, this piece combines medium and dark values, and balances the two, using acrylic markers and red pens. The stark black background combined with the flow of the flowers, creates a unique harmony in the piece.
This charcoal drawing was hand drawn as a rendition for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, which explores the darker themes of Alice in Wonderland that aren't as touched upon. This piece explores that darkness visually with the blacked out areas, rough textures, and off kilter elements throughout.
This gothic inspired piece, combines earth elements together in a harmonious way. The bird skull, and the leaves, with contrasting shading techniques create a unique composition throughout. Hand drawn with pens, this piece balances creepy and ethereal in a unique way.
This piece was a start screen that I made, in Procreate, for a video game school project. The game is centered around an escape room theme, with each level having a different eerie horror concept, as well as characters. I wanted the start screen to reflect that feeling, giving the player a feel of how the game would go.