LUCKY LOVE
After graduating in 2018 with a Character Animation BFA, I began work on illustrating the Lucky Love Series, written by Casey Lane. Lucky Love & His Moms and Lucky Love Starts School, both published in 2020, follow a little dog named Lucky Love who was adopted by two moms (who love him very much!). Lucky experiences the joy of adoption and the anxiety of beginning school. The series was created by Lane to uplift both traditional and nontraditional families through the timeless medium of storytelling.
Book Illustration
SIR AFRAIDALOT
AND THE FEARSOME AND TERRIBLE DRAGON
Sir Afraidalot and the Fearsome and Terrible Dragon was a labor of love completed in 2023 with high school friend and fellow creative Jon Gaul. A humorous fantasy tale that asks young readers to look beyond gossip and appearances to find their own truth, Sir Afraidalot is not afraid to call out its characters for their shortcomings and seek the truth. To date, I've never seen a children's picture book do this, and it was a challenge and joy to illustrate in stylized digital watercolor and felt cut-outs.
WATERWORKS
Page 15 is a Central Florida 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower children to write and grow their literary skills. I partnered with them in 2021 to illustrate cover art for 15 literary works that were submitted to their yearly high school writing contest and published in a one-of-a-kind anthology book. The theme of this anthology was water and humanity's relationship with it. I took each student's composition into account when illustrating to include key themes, motifs, and cultures. Watercolor textures and rich jewel hues tie the illustrations together.
Game Illustration
Village Pillage
Village Pillage, created by Peter Hayward, Tom Lang, and the crew at Jellybean Games, is the Mensa Select Winner of 2021, an award given to games that are "original, challenging, and well-designed." I joined the team in 2022 to illustrate the "Robbin' Hood" expansion of the game, and again in 2024 to illustrate the game's final expansion, "Dark Arts & Crafts." Utilizing Photoshop, I created wacky, wild, and wonderful character designs based on the classic Robin Hood story, magic, fantasy, and the specific game mechanics of each card. Additionally, I designed the front cover for the BIG BOX that contains all exciting Village Pillage expansions, plus the latest,
"Dark Arts & Crafts."
Hero Tails
As yet unreleased Hero Tails was the first project I undertook with Peter Hayward at Jellybean Games in 2021. To bring the anthropomorphic animal characters in this D&D-style tabletop game to life, I created concept collages, concept sketches, and final illustrations in Photoshop. After finalizing the illustrations, I assisted the 3D modeler with designing the 3D-printed character minis. In order to help him stay on-model with my designs, I created orthographics of each character and completed draw-overs of the 3D models as necessary.
Fog of War
From the puzzle masters of Cracking the Cryptic and the game designers of Blue Beard Entertainment, Fog of War is a unique narrative-driven sudoku experience released digitally in 2023. More than 20 fully illustrated sudoku puzzles accompany an original story about a war-torn world, a mysterious, ever-present fog, and one sibling trying to rescue another. I helped expand upon this fantastical world by pouring details from the novella into the character designs and puzzle illustrations. Be it as broad as depicting the favored resources of the warring nations or as minute as the glowing mushrooms the characters encounter,
I dismissed no details.
