Frank Lloyd Wright Illustrations
Year
2018-2021
I first started drawing Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs in my junior year of high school during my drawing classes after school at the studio Monart. I realized I enjoyed illustrating architecture and interiors, and it soon became the only thing I would draw. I wanted to continue doing design work, which helped guide me toward interior architecture at SDSU! I hope to do architectural design work and continue illustrating as well. All of these artworks are done with Colored Pencil, Pen, and Marker on White Paper.
Nobu Illustrations
I have lots of love for my cat Nobu, he’s a tuxedo and I have lots of work dedicated to him! Here I have included a picture of us and some of the work I have done.
Year
2021-2022
Girl In Kimono
Girl In Kimono is an illustration done in my second year of college and was done in chalk pastel on 18” x 24” brown paper. For this assignment, I was to increase the scale of a picture and practice using chalk pastels.
While this was only to practice using the medium, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to challenge myself with the details of the kimono and hair versus the mess and chaos of chalk pastel.
I’ve found that I enjoy drawing the little details, like all of the flowers in the kimono, and all of the different shades of shadows in the hair, and bow.
Year
2022
Flowers and Cacti
These illustrations were both still-life drawings in colored pencil. I loved the bright colors of the flowers on the right drawing, one of my main techniques when drawing with colored pencils is to add all the different shades of colors, and then I use burnishing with a colorless pencil to give the drawing a bright smooth look. Both of these drawings were successful for me, as I was able to capture all of the different shades of plants, and lighting.
Year
2021
Paintings
I took an Illustration class in my second semester of college, and have produced many original paintings
Year
2022
Traveling Monk
For this project, I read "Nine Billion Names for God" by Arthur C. Clark and had to create a composition about the story. I read about a monk traveling through the Appalachian Mountains to the Monastery and describing how he spends his time and worshipping god.
For this illustration, I wanted to capture the setting of the Monk and paint him from behind, you can tell he is a monk based on his orange robes and bald head. The Appalachian mountains are cold and snowy which is why the background has cooler colors which also make the other elements pop.
Hope for the Unhoused
This painting is a social issue illustration. My professor, Neil Shigely has done lots of art regarding the unhoused and wanted us to focus attention on raising awareness on this important issue. He says that “with awareness, change on a grand scale or a small scale can happen, even if it is simply one person treating another with respect. “
In my painting, I drew a purple iris growing through the sidewalk, a harsh environment that you wouldn’t think it could survive in, but instead, it’s healthy and vibrant. The reason I chose an iris is that it signifies hope.
Trivia
This is a fun illustration of a randomly assigned trivia phrase. I picked “A mole can dig a 300ft hole in one night". I thought it was a funny saying but I didn’t know how to illustrate that. After some thought, I wanted to emphasize that a mole can dig pretty deep in a short amount of time so I wanted to illustrate pest control getting trapped by the mole when it’s usually the other way around!
Other Illustrations & Installations
Golden Dancer
This drawing was done with different types of gold and yellow colored pencils. I blended the colors with marker.
Year
2015-2020
Endangered
This is a statue on the impact of habitat loss specifically on cheetahs, they need lots of land due to their sources of prey, and water and have lots of competition. However, the increase in human population has left the cheetah’s natural habitat to decrease significantly. To draw attention to this problem, I sculpted a cheetah out of clay. I then sewed a building and land for it to sit on, as if it was a log in the savannah. This was displayed at the David Brower Center in Berkeley CA.
SDSU Aztec Calendar Installation
This is a laser-cut sculptural mural done as a group. The assignment was to design a mural out of wood in groups with a 1:1 scale for a wall outside of the art building. The group that wins get’s their design cut out with the laser cutter, and my group won!
What I contributed to this, was helping measure the circle, helping with conceptual planning, and deciding on the design used for the calendar. As a group, we all picked different sections of the circle and individually created designs. Since there were extra spots, I took the initiative to do multiple sections.
Studies and Practice
Displayed here are some sketches, drawings, and notes
