Welllllll, I couldn’t draw Kili without drawing Fili as well, so here he is~ (:

[May.2013]

Some more hobbit greatness, here you have Bofur the dwarf~

He clearly has the classiest of hats haha(:

[May.2012]

Summer boredom…time to draw Hobbit-y things. Have some Kili cuteness! &&I also made a wallpaper~

The costume designs for the dwarves….I swear..amazing

[May.2013]

Graduation card for my friend Steph(:

Made with watercolor pencils, acrylics, and metallic sharpies

[May.2013]

A birthday card for my bestest friend Chelsea. She likes hedgehogs and daisies….so yeah haha

Painted with watercolor pencils

[May.2013]

Final project for Graphic Design

We had to make a brochure of a certain area of my university campus incorporating the images used from the previous project

Included are photos of the actual printed brochure as well as the digital files

[ART210.May.2013]

Completed screen prints for my printmaking class

The assignment was to memorialize something or someone, or pay tribute or homage to something or someone. I decided to pay tribute to children’s literature, since stories, especially fantasy, really influenced my life

The piece pays homage to many different fairytales (such as Peter Pan, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Pinocchio), as well as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat, and A.A. Milne’s The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

[ART220.April.2013]

Two different “map” designs of a certain section of my school. We had to do one completely of text in inDesign, and the other completely pictorial in Photoshop/InDesign

These are the two designs I came up with

[ART210.April.2013]

New updated sketch idea for my final printmaking project, which will be another screen print paying tribute/homage to something or someone

This time I’m paying homage to not just Dr. Seuss, but childhood reading in general. A lot of fairytales are featured, as well as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat, and A.A. Milne’s The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

There’s a lot of different color versions as well, plus some sketch updates

[ART220.April.2013]

My one good preliminary (digital) color sketch for my final printmaking project….which was rejected by my teacher for “being too unoriginal”

I think it’s cute anyways though, so have some Cat in the Hat adorableness

[ART220.April.2013]

Completed screen printing project!

To recap, my inspiration words were Travel, New Zealand, Middle Earth, Celtic, and Trees. The print features a quote from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, intertwined among the tree branches, which I find embodies the sense of travel. I was really glad one of my words was “trees” since Tolkien was rather fond of nature. The butterflies are also a nod to Tolkien’s The Hobbit, as many butterflies fly above the treetops in Mirkwood

[ART220.April.2013]

My completed creative project for my History of Graphic Design class, featuring poetry by J.R.R. Tolkien in the style of an Illuminated Manuscript, with an Art Nouveau twist

The poem by Tolkien reads

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

and is written in both Tengwar (Elvish) and English

The book is completely handmade, using watercolors and metallic and black sharpies to create the imagery and calligraphic script

[AH355.April.2013]

Idea sketches for my next printmaking project, which will be a screen print

In class we did an idea exercise to write down as many nouns/subjects you could think of in 2 minutes. Afterwards we narrowed down the list into our top five, to then be used as the basis for our sketch ideas. My top five were Travel, New Zealand, Middle Earth, Celtic, and Trees

Surprise surprise, I was thinking of Tolkien-eque things…so I’m pretty excited for this project, actually

[ART220.March.2013]

The finished products for my color linoleum block print

There are the color versions, as well as a couple extra prints I made in black of just my key block. The color prints are done on mulberry paper, and the black and white prints are done on masa

[ART220.March.2013]

Our third major graphic design project was to create a stamp based on a graphic designer from a certain country. I received the country of Germany, so I went with the artist Peter Behrens

We had to implement our color studies of achromatic, monochromatic, split-complimentary, analogous, and triadic color palettes, thus creating 5 different versions of the stamp

The top image is straight from the computer, and the bottom is the display piece. Made in Illustrator

[ART210.March.2013]