Author: Kyria

For my patterns, I took photos of some cool things I keep on my desk, cropped them out from their background, did some editing, and made seamless patterns from them.

This is a photo of some Bismuth I own – an artificially grown crystal (cool, right?). Ergo, this could be seen as an interpretation of either “mineral” or “synthetic”. I love the square pattern and I wanted to find a way to make it seem like it stretches on forever. I also love the way it fades from amber to sea green.

These are some photos of succulents in cute glass pots on my desk as my interpretation of the prompt “vegetable.” The background paper is from a source online.

For my project I wanted to create a piece that would evoke questions such as “how?” and “why?” from the viewer. To accomplish this I found a photo that was already quite unbelievable (bottom), and then I made it even more unbelievable by removing the only plausible explanation as to what caused the phenomena of the airborne man seen. Without context, it is not clear that the man is just enjoying a day at the beach with some friends. Perhaps instead he is falling into the water due to a rather unfortunate accident. Or perhaps his ankles have the ability to fly, and are dragging along the rest of his body with them…

The majority of the work on this project was removing tiny white specks of water droplets with spot healer. The other was adding some variance to the water which replaced the Bro-Launching Dude Squad™, which proved a much more tedious and difficult task than I had anticipated.

Hey all,

My name is Kyria, and I’m a freshman CS major. I’ve lived in Massachusetts for nearly my whole life. I love art and have been inspired to draw since I was very little thanks to various books, shows and video games. I mainly use more traditional methods for art (watercolor being a recent favorite), but I have never been afraid to make art digitally as well. I “took a break” from making art for a couple of years, but have found myself becoming more interested in creating more art as of recent.

Here are some tattoos I’ve done on my friends in Copic Marker, which lasts for a couple of days and is surprisingly vibrant on skin (not sure about how safe it is, though…). These are a few years old.

More recently I’ve gotten into card making. Here’s a card I made for a family friend featuring the Punisher from the Netflix adaptation.

Finally, here’s some photo evidence of the time Rick Astley liked my vector adaptation of his face, made entirely of the lyrics of “Never Gunna Give You Up”.

My pixel art is one of my favorite Pokemon, Mew. I have wasted hundreds of hours across several Pokemon games, and have created countless fanarts and “fakemon”. Also, the original gameboy sprite of Mew is really ugly (I encourage you to look it up), and I wanted to see what I could do in less pixels.