Paintings
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August
This is a 6 x 9 inch painting I made of Taylor Swift’s performance of August from the Folklore set of The Eras Tour. Made with gouache and acrylic paint, I hoped to recreate the flow and fabric pattern of this absolutely beautiful dress. This piece was created in January 2024 and is one of…
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Still Lives
These are still lives from my basics of painting class I took. The focus for these acrylic paintings are realistically portraying color, proportion, and value. Created September – December 2023.
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The Tortured Poets Department
This is a 8 x 8 gouache painting of the album cover for the upcoming Taylor Swift Album. Created March 2024.
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Phineas and Ferb
This is a 6 x 8 gouache painting of Phineas and Ferb. This was one of my favorite shows growing up, and recently me and my siblings started watching it again for nostalgic purposes over the summer. I was inspired to make one more summer piece before I moved back to school for the fall.…
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Elemental
This is a 9 x 12 gouache painting I did of the poster for Pixar’s Elemental. I wanted to focus on the getting the textures and glow of the characters right. This painting is from December 2022.
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Terry
This is a 6 x 8 gouache painting of Terry from Pixar’s Soul. Soul is incredibly touching one of my favorite movies, and Terry is my favorite character. I hoped to recreate the glowy, otherworldly feel of this scene. This piece is from January 2024.
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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
This is a 6 x 9 gouache painting of the iconic characters from the Rudolph Christmas special. I absolutely loved this show growing up, and I wanted to paint something around the holidays, so this was perfect! My goal was to recreate the textures so the characters appear as if they’re the stop motion puppets.…
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Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2: This is a 9 x 12 gouache painting I made of the poster for Pixar’s upcoming movie, Inside Out 2. I really love Pixar (they’re the reason I’m going into animation!), so I create pieces of their movie posters a lot. This painting is from November 2023 and was a lot of…
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The Eras Tour
This is a 16 x 20 gouache painting of the official Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour poster/merchandise. If you could not tell, I have been absolutely obsessed Taylor Swift ever since I was little. I was lucky enough to attend The Eras Tour, which was my first concert and singlehandedly the best day of my…
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1989 (Taylor’s Version)
This is a 6 x 6 gouache painting for the album cover of 1989 (Taylor’s Version). This has been one of my favorite albums for a long time. When the rerecorded version of this album was announced, I was so excited to paint this cover! I wanted to focus on the body proportions, as well…
2D and Stop Motion Animation
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Driveway: Lyric Video
After animating many Spotify Canvases, I decided to continue the aesthetic of my friend’s original music and create a lyric video for one of his songs, Driveway. This project was a Christmas gift for my friend and very much a learning (but rewarding) experience! The project began in August 2023. I started by cutting out…
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Bouncing Frog
This is my very first 2d attempt at animation for a class. Used bouncing ball technique on a frog using pencil and paper. Created April 2023.
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OctoBurger
This is a metamorphosis animation I made for a 2D class. Created April 2023.
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Color Walk Cycle
This is a walk cycle I animated for a 2D animation class. I am responsible for animation and coloring, the background is a stock image I found online. Created May 2023.
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Spotify Canvas: Driveway
Over the summer, I worked with my friend who makes original music to create looping animations for the back of his Spotify songs. This animation has both hand drawn and stop motion elements which I drew with pastel and marker and cut out of magazines. This one is for the song Driveway. Animation and cover art…
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Spotify Canvas: Great Flood
Over the summer, I worked with my friend who makes original music to create looping animations for the back of his Spotify songs. This animation has both hand drawn and stop motion elements which I drew with pastel and marker and cut out of magazines. This one is for the song Great Flood. Animation and cover…
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Spotify Canvas: Open As You Are
Over the summer, I worked with my friend who makes original music to create looping animations for the back of his Spotify songs. This animation has both hand drawn and stop motion elements which I drew with pastel and marker and cut out of magazines. This one is for the song Open As You Are. Animation…
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Spotify Canvas: Big Yellow Light
Over the summer, I worked with my friend who makes original music to create looping animations for the back of his Spotify songs. This animation has both hand drawn and stop motion elements which I drew with pastel and marker and cut out of magazines. This one is for the song Big Yellow Light. Animation…
3D Animation
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“You’re Toast!”
“You’re Toast!” is my final project from my second 3D animation class I’ve taken. I worked on this with my friend over the course of 10 weeks in which we storyboarded, modeled (everything but the robots), blocked, and polished this animation in Maya. We even rigged the entire robot. This was both our first time animating on…
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Bathtub Battle
This is my final project from my first ever animation class. I was tasked with recreating a 30 second clip from a live action movie and recreating it with inanimate household objects. I chose the snake fight scene from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets recreated with my showerhead and shampoo bottle. I am…
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Walk
This is the last animation in the series of assignments practicing body mechanics. Here I tried to focus on the weight shifts and giving the robot personality. Created March 2024.
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Throw
This is my first 3D animation on a humanoid rig. The purpose of this assignment was to practice the body mechanics of throwing a football. Created January 2024.
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Jump
This is an animation I created for my second animation class. The focus was working on body mechanics and weight with a simple robot rig. Created Feb. 2024.
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Bouncing Balls
This is my second 3D animation piece I’ve made. The goal was to include three balls of different sizes and weights an capture how they bounce realistically. Created October 2023.
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Bathtub Loop
This is my first 3D animation I made. The goal of this assignment was to create a looping animation with 5 or more objects. Created September 2023.
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Noodle Race
This is a 3D animation I created for my first animation class. The goal of this assignment was to create a race between two distinct characters. The characters were supposed to have different personalities and different styles of movement. This was one of my most successful animations for the course. I modeled, lit, and animated…
Collage
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Spider-Punk
When I was a kid, around 12 years old, I was obsessed with Duck Tape. For about a year I spent every day making the usual wallets, bags, and flowers popularized by the internet, but soon I got bored of making the same things over and over. I began making collages of things I liked…
3D Models
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Western Saloon
This is my final project from my second CGI class, in which I had to work with a team to make a themed room. I am responsible for modeling and texturing the cow skull, bar/barstools, and bottles. I also textured the modular kit using Substance Painter.
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Camera
This is a 3D asset I modeled, textured, and lit in Maya as my final project for my very first CGI class. I was very proud of capturing the accuracy of the model to my real life camera and the “wear and tear” of the object in the texturing work. There is also a turntable…
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Hammer
This is a hammer I modeled and textured for a CGI class. Hammer was modeled in Maya. Textures were hand painted in Photoshop, because of this I am still extremely proud of this model even though this model is fairly old. This project was completed in January 2023.
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Dr Pepper
This is a 3D model that I modeled and textured for my first CGI class. It was modeled in Maya and the textures were hand painted in Photoshop. Created Feb. 2023.
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Cow Skull
This is a hero model I created for a CGI group project in which we had to create a themed room. We made a saloon. I modeled this cow skull in Maya and refined in Z Brush. I textured in Substance Painter and rendered in V-Ray. Created in May 2023.
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Paper Mate Pen
This pen is a 3D model I worked on over the course of two weeks during my freshman year of college. I modeled and lit in Maya, created the textures in Adobe Substance Painter, and rendered with V-Ray. I am very pleased with the end result of the detail in the texture work. This piece…
Drawings
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Figure Line Drawings
A series of figure drawings without tone. Created March – May 2023.
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Figure Drawing
This is a pencil drawing of a woman from my figure drawing class. I focused on the proportions of the body and creating tone by hatching. Created May 2023.
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Foreshortened Figure
This is a foreshortened figure drawing I made with pencil. I accomplished the tone by hatching. I loved my figure drawing class and the challenging foreshortened poses were always the most fun. Created May 2023.
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Figure with Stick
This is a pencil figure drawing of a woman with a stick. I applied tone by hatching and measured the body based off the stick. Created May 2023.
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Figure in Chair
This is a pencil drawing I made for my Figure Drawing class freshman year. I practiced the proportions of the human figure by using sighting and measuring on a live model. This piece was created in three hours and uses hatching techniques to provide tone. This piece was created sometime between April and May 2023.