I am an IMGD Visual Arts and CS Junior from Jackson, NJ! I’m a member of the Varsity field hockey team and a Sports Information Media Intern for WPI Athletics.
Art has always been a huge part of my life! Before WPI, I strictly did traditional art. In fact, I didn’t try digital art until the beginning of 2021. In high school, my favorite mediums were acrylic and oils. I’ve also designed, built, and painted sets for 10 shows, with my favorite being Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. For Christmas 2020, I got an IPad, and started seriously practicing digital art! I now have my own Wacom Cintiq 22 and I have a ton of fun creating on it. I’ve found digital painting, concept art, and character design to be my favorite! I’ve also dabbled in 3D modeling, 2D animation, graphic design, video editing, audio editing, pixel art, and texture painting. I would love to eventually become a Character Designer or Concept Artist for Video Games! It’s a lot of work but I hope I can get there eventually! Im currently working on trying to make much better character sheets and turnarounds. I also have a bad habit of starting many projects and never actually finishing them (hence all of the wips you are about to see)
I draw my inspiration for creating from many different places! A few games, movies, shows, books, podcasts, and musics that inspire me include: Undertale/Deltarune, Treasure Planet, Arcane, Adventure time, Chainsaw Man, The Magnus Archives, and Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. I tend to paint and color inspired by Impressionistic techniques of laying bright and bold colors next to each other without necessarily blending. I also find great inspiration from the art of Aleksander Rostov, the Art Director for Disco Elysium, as well as Denis Sarazhin and Francesca Fedele.
I have only created two digital games during my time here at WPI! The first one was a 3D dungeon crawler called Sinful Soul, during last years Cutthroat Game Jam. I designed the player and enemy characters, all of the UI elements, and painted all of the textures. The second game was a horror pixel scroller in IMGD 1001! I created all of the stages, sprites, and obstacles, and it was super fun to learn how to make pixel art! Over the summer, I was able to design a few characters for a game a WPI grad, Vladimir Karashchuk, is making, and I had a ton of fun!
Here are some more fun things to know about me! My favorite pair of shoes are my green converse. I have a great love for BMO from Adventure Time and Stitch. I have an affinity for bugs and like to design characters after types of bugs. My birthday will fall on the last day of D term for three years in a row before I graduate. My number one song on Spotify was Under My Skin by Jukebox the Ghost for two years in a row, but I think it will be different this year!
Here’s to a new term, and I can’t wait to create something great with you all!
The art in your post was thought-provoking because I think there could be a entire story based off of each image.
Badge: Gorgeous
Your art is really pretty, everything works together and creates a really stunning piece. The colors pop even in darker pieces like the mermaid.
Badge: Impressive
I just couldn’t stop being in awe of your style and your works, they are truly amazing!!
Badge: gorgeous
Need I say more?? Your work is simply gorgeous. Your use of colors, your compositions, the painterly style of rendering….it’s simply beautiful.
badge: striking
your art is really cool, the girl with the red background in particular has a great color palette
Badge: gorgeous
Your digital painting skills are incredible, from the color choices to the unique ideas to technical skill. Despite some being WIPs like you said they’re all so satisfying to look at.
Badge- cute. AAAAAAHHH KIWI THE MONKEY I LOVE HIMB
Colorful
There’s a wide range of diverse works in here, and the usage of painting techniques is the biggest selling point of the works.
Badge: Colorful
I like the way bright colors were used to make mundane things seem way more interesting and attention grabbing.
You got the colorful badge! Your use of color looks very deliberate, and you manage to achieve such a wide variety across your portfolio, from the bold profile pics to the mysterious mermaid.
Badge: Impressive
Your style and the way you make use of colors for shadows and highlights is very beautiful!
Striking – Holy smokes, this is a feast for the eyes. Everything is absolutely beautiful and gorgeous, but I say striking because it all has an immediate draw to it that pulls you in and holds you. Stunning!
Badge: Colorful
Reasoning: Your use of color is SO fantastic!!! It really makes me want to push myself to experiment with color more. (And hear me out… that bottle you made for the Sinful Soul UI? It looks delicious. I cannot explain it, I just want to eat it idk it’s just so shiny…)
Badge: Shiny
I really liked how you captured the light coming from the fire reflecting on the character on your October PFP well done!