I worked a short internship in 2023 with perfect day games under my mentor at the time James McDonald, to come up with a few initial concepts for an area in a game called Robot Quest Arena. and to learn about concept art in the game industry in general here is some of what I achieved during that time as shown below: I came up with some initial designs for a navigable environment, a handful of NPC character designs, 2 focus characters, a few robots and Vehicle designs as well, All in the games intended art style.  all these images are owned by perfect day games. 

view more food paintings can be viewed on the Studies page 

Being bi racial my hair was a source of bullying and deep insecurity for me growing up. So during a change in my life I made an explorational and experimental series of portraits. Unintentionally at the time enjoying the processes of creating art for the purpose of self acceptance, creating art of beautiful women with curls and various hair textures, so that I myself could learn to see my own hair as beautiful too. creating this series of illustrations helped me learn not just how to draw hair but to view it as something as natural and normal regardless of the person beneath it. 

All of which were hand drawn using 0.7-0.9 black-liners on Bristol paper.

Despite fanart being frowned upon in most traditional fine-art spaces, in my experience fan art has been something that connects and unites artists the most. I believe this is because most famous stories are able to unite anyone. Ironically, when one considers history, the difference between a renaissance era oil painting of Jesus and a marker sketch of a pre existing anime character is time, both are technically fan art. I think its beautiful and I find no shame in participating, and showing my love for these stories and characters with practice. I find a lot of joy and satisfaction creating art of my favorite characters and people in pop culture and I want to continue to celebrate that.