Digital Illustration. Built for Change: Women of STEM was an illustration opportunity to collaborate with the art director at Ask magazine, a publication for teenagers, to develop a splash illustration. The topic of the online article would be the rapidly expanding inclusion of women in STEM fields. I approached this challenge with a desire to represent femininity and STEM as separate ideas but unite them in form. This is the splash illustration that ended up being used, just without the background color.

Digital Illustration. Internet Money was a digital illustration I created as part of a series of digital artworks that eventually were used as stock illustrations for an online library of licensable illustrations. These illustrations were designed to cover an array of contemporary topics. Internet Money is a work that illustrates the synthesis of our most prolific mobile technological platform; the phone, becoming a source of trading, investing, and income all without a physical bank account being necessary.

Pen and Ink. Digital Color Correction. In 2017 I participated in an art design contest hosted by FanFactory.com for a new t-shirt design contract with Hot Topic. The design had to be about the TV cartoon show on Adult Swim called ‘Rick and Morty’. I submitted my design and come to find out I had won. My design is still sold in Hot Topic retail outlets across the U.S. I am extremely proud of this accomplishment.

Digital Illustration. After doing several pieces of album artwork in 2017 I was propositioned by a Massachusetts based band called Whalom Park to Illustrate a whimsical space-land. The only stipulation was that there needed to be an old theme park and an astronaut riding a rollercoaster. I had a lot of fun sketching concepts for this one, but ultimately I think this composition was the most successful at being an interesting way of portraying space through reflective surfaces.

Pen and Ink. Digital Illustration. In 2017 I was afforded the opportunity to work with an art director from Guitar magazine who had interest in continuing a series called ‘How-To’ which essentially outlines something regarding guitar tech. The Director liked my idea and with his input developed a page that I pitched called ‘How-To: Restring an Electric Bass Guitar’. The page got cut out of the issue early on in the images development but I enjoyed the progress I had made on it up to that point. So, I took it upon myself to finalize the illustration. I believe it’s an exemplary display of my ability to organize design, illustration, and text into a graphic design that displays a hierarchy of visual content.

Digital Illustration. In 2016 I was approached by a fitness and wellness start-up company called ‘Lean Life Revolution’. They were looking for various types of logos and designs that could also be incorporated into early merchandise and brand wear.

In 2017, after acquiring a merchandising contract with Hot Topic for my Rick and Morty design, I was quickly acquisitioned by several merchandise licensing groups that wanted me to create a similar shirt design for their properties. One of these groups being from a company called ‘Level-Up Wear’. Dark Souls 3 was coming out that year and they wanted something similar to my ‘Melted Universe’. Here the protagonist faces off against the games nearly 20-odd bosses.

In 2019 a member of Boston University’s PiBS student body reached out to me to see if I was willing to design a graphic tee design that the class officers could use on shirts that were being given to incoming students to the program. Together we collaborated on ideas that we could use to cover the broad array of disciplines that fall under the umbrella term of Biomedical Sciences. These designs are still being used by the school’s student body today.

Digital Illustration. Through a mutual friend of the fabrication shop that I work at I was able to produce some small logos and designs used for merchandising and branding of Hughes Metal Works which is dedicated to fabricating high-end steel art pieces for municipalities and personal clients.