illustration
2025
A portrait of Hannah Arendt that I made for a political-philosopher friend of mine.
2024
An illustration I made with colored pencils, ink, and silver pigment marker. Inspired by the work of early-twentieth-century artist Virginia Sterett.
2023
Bees! I was inspired to make this when I visited New York over break and saw Albrecht Dürer's engravings. I really like elaborately detailed drawings formed just out of thin black lines.
2021
There is an ancient Roman myth that the god Zeus was pursuing the goddess Hera, and during a storm he transformed into a wounded cuckoo so that she would take care of him. I wanted to make the background for this image appear soft to go with the theme.
2018
The inspiration for this was a mountain creature that has fallen asleep for so many years that trees, moss, and wildlife start living on top of it.
A woman I saw on the train in Switzerland. The thing with drawing strangers is that you have to be careful they don't notice you drawing them.
I thought gas masks were cool when I was 15. They would soon become cool again, but for very different reasons.
A deep sea diver. But that hand... isn't quite attached to their body. Whose hand is it?!? Maybe a mermaid?
2017
The story behind this was that the baby had been abandoned, but the skeleton decided to raise it as its own. It took me a while of staring at reference photos to figure out how all the bones along the spine were supposed to go. I did the inking during the down time when I used to work on crew for my high school's theatre program (costumes, paint, and construction)