I began using a unique method for my art. Half of the picture is hand drawn, the other half is digital. Below are original works using royalty-free backgrounds and assets. Below are using photos taken by me as backgrounds.

Original artist statement: A digital art piece for my class. We had to take a bunch of copyright free images and make a picture with it, it can be wacky or have some representation to it. Spider Lilies are often associated with death and the ending of a life. I put it in a field of real flowers in a meadow with fake flowers towering over in the sky. The message is the following: no matter how genuine you are, you are in a world of hardships and insincerity. It seems that the

Original artist statement: My final project for my digital arts class. We were supposed to make a piece that was persuasive and about something we're passionate about. I feel like a lot of modern day feminists demonize men and victimize themselves, often putting other women down and not seeing what they have. In order to achieve success, we all must work together. The ground is meant to look like a desert and barren, as in the past women didn't have any rights and yet people

My digital arts project. It's a sequel to my first pandemic inspired piece, "On Pause". This one is a bit more pessimistic. Whereas the other one represented hope and having control, this one represents the unknown and losing control. There's a play button here instead of a pause button because at that time, I didn't know when I'd be able to return to Japan and resume my goals. I had begun to get restless again because of that lack of knowing and not knowing what steps to tak

Samples of exercises/practice in Adobe Illustrator

A self portrait for my digital arts class in Adobe Illustrator. We were tasked to create our own designs in the form of a pattern alongside a redesign of a real picture in pop-art style. The background was made entirely by me. The "shirt" is a royalty free photo from google images.

Midterm for my Intercultural Communications class in Japan

Final presentation for my Intercultural Communications class at Kansai Gaidai University

As an artist and a person, there are many things that make me unique. To start off, I’m not the kind of person who tags along and blindly follows others. I’m always voicing my opinion and usually the only one standing. I show who I am and what I truly believe in my art, using symbolism, characters, emotions, and so on. And for this piece in particular, represents all these different parts that make up who I am. It shows that I don’t focus my attention on only one thing that I

My original group for a previous project disbanded into two separate groups. As a result, my partner and I came up with our own idea - that was to make safety posters. As High Tech High utilizes hands-on technology, we decided to take a humorous "common sense" approach to handing tools. At this time, in 2011, "derp" was a popular meme, that implied stupidity or having a "brain fart". My partner sketched out an image of a heavily stylized cartoon character eating hot glue. I c

Every year, the class was tasked to come up with a "team name" for our class. My group and I decided to take some inspiration from video games - more specifically, Call of Duty and Modern Warfare . Our two teachers had the initials "A" and "K" together, so we went with a play on words, "AK57", for the amount of students in our class. These are two drafts that I came up with in Adobe Photoshop.

An image using the mesh tool in Adobe Illustrator. At this time, I had just gotten back into the Final Fantasy series; and so along with the setting, I decided to use a cactar, instead of a regular cactus. (Any referenced copyrighted works are unofficial and unsponsored. These pieces are only for academic purposes)

During the 2020 elections, my digital arts class assigned us to create a piece centered around encouraging people to vote. I made this in Adobe Illustrator, using quotes from Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the form of two hands holding the overall message.

For my biology class, we were going over the science of neurological disorders. My team was in charge of presenting our findings on Autism. This was our visual for it, using available images from online at the time. Made in Photoshop CS6

Sample of marketing material. Cartoon cans created by me in Adobe Illustrator.