digital mediums
from children's book works to concept designs and narrative illustrations, join me in exploring the realm of illustration through digital mediums.
softwares use: Procreate, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint.
🩷🐍 Year of the Snake - 2025 Ất Tỵ 🐍🩷 . For next year, learn to break through your jar of worries. Let's mend the mistakes we've crossed into new opportunities. Like a snake shedding its skin, let this be a year of transformation.
🩷🐉 Year of the Dragon - 2024 Giáp Thìn 🐉🩷 . “I sail wishful paper boats onto flowing water And yearn for their safe travels. I ignite dreams into stars that mend our future, Ensuring light is shine onto everyone.” . May the Dragon of 2024 strengthens togetherness for all who deserves.
A spread from Today's the Day - my first children's book.
Spark Find your spark. Be yourself and enjoy the moment right here right now. Do things however you want to, there’s really no limit on how many possibilities you can achieve. Are you looking at the spark, or is the spark reaching back at you? In one way or another, we’re all each other’s sparkle 💖 This illustration was created with @familytreeclinic ‘s mission statement and style guide in mind along with the class prompt’s “Relaxation”. I want to combine bold and colorful colors to show the variety of life and a few pride flags to show Family Tree Clinic’s inclusiveness. The vases were included as representations of human vessels where each vase has a different shape and color. I also incorporate some activities I do when I want to relax, like reading a book, hanging out with friends, going to coffee shops, and looking at animals 💙
Readers' Dreamscape Digital Illustration 22 x 10 inches A mural illustration to support the bookstore @magersandquinn and celebrate the store being the largest independently owned bookstore in Minnesota. This project is for community building, decoration, and promotion. Other things the artwork can be used for tote bags, paper bags, bookmarks, promotion banners, etc.. The idea surrounds imagination and whimsical ideas while reading a book and how you can travel into the stories ✨
👨🏼🦳 Why Is Grandpa Grumpy? 👧🏻 Two Pages Spread 20” x 10” . My first project of the semester for Children’s Book Illustration :”) We were given random words that formed into a prompt and mine was “grandparent house” and “grumpy”. This project really brought tears to my eyes as I was working on it because I haven’t seen my grandparents for a while. I even had a whole storyline and personalities for all the characters from this spread already. I have included a lot of little things throughout the spreads to let the readers (parents, and later on, kids) know the reason why the grandfather is grumpy (or is he?) I used color to convey the mood and keys I want to express. Green stands for the lost ones, the grandmother figure, whom the kids never met before. Brown/orange stands for the left-behind granddad, who’s trying to fill up the void of his partner. From the photo frames to the unfinished knitted project, the two filled mugs every afternoon, the urn on the fireplace, the spacious house despite all the cluttering, and the dying plants. These things seem obvious in the adults’ eyes, but from a kid’s perspective, they are clueless as to why their granddad would be so grumpy and scary all the time when he had all these possessions. This was a very fun (?) project to start up the semester and I hope you enjoy it as well :”)
👻 The Surprise Helper 🌌 Two Pages Spread 19” x 11” When a group of friends decided to go treasure hunting in the wood, they didn’t know there was gonna be a surprise helper behind the luminous waterfall 🤭🤞 I had a really fun time drawing these little characters as well as playing with negative space! Trying out a cool color palette was tricky as I’m used to warm tones but the result is very satisfying ✨ Tag yourself which kid are you 👻
🎶 The Melody Beneath the Moon🌙 Book Jacket Cover Illustration Stitch, the well-known fire summoner of the magic academy Moon Carnival, is smart, adventurous, and charming. Vân, on the other hand, is quiet, skeptical, might as well be considered the castaway of the class due to her lack of magical control. However, they find themself stuck together for a school competition by fate, the hero and the loner. In a challenge where every single student is sent out to gather moon dust, this unexpected pairing was able to break open the secret beneath the moon that the Moon Carnival Academy has been hidden away…
Folk & Fairy Tales Festival Digital Illustration 18x24 . “Come join us for a magical time at the whimsical land of folk & fairy tales! Become a villager for a day by finishing your tasks and getting to know the other villagers. Activities include but are not limited to helping Snow White pick apples, joining Hansel & Gretel for a baking contest, helping Alice in Wonderland set up a tea party, and making a quilt from scratch with Little Red Riding Hood ✨ Make sure to grab a map at your entrance so you’re not wandering off into the Enchanted Forest by mistake!”
🌆 Urban Cat 🌆 Editorial Illustration 16x12 Based on the article “Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?” by Paul Bisceglio Big-small cat!! Paws!! Fishes!! Cities!!
Understand an Individual's Inner World Digital Illustration 14” x 30”
When Wendy Meets Peter Digital Illustration 12" x 33" (or two 12” x 9” and one 12" x 13) Peter Pan is a story about dreams, friendship, adventure, and childhood, but also about loneliness and isolation. When Wendy meets Peter, they became friends and both discovered a new world in each other. Wendy was reintroduced to the idea of imagination and childhood by Peter while Peter learns to be compassionate and be acceptance through Wendy. The story starts and ends at night, symbolizing the dreamy and mysterious aspect of the story. This illustration can be viewed as a triptych work or as a long vertical scroll of a magical, child-like atmosphere.
Homer, An Oracle Storyteller An illustration honoring Homer--the oracle storyteller, and his creations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Moon, Moths, Clouds Are you the clouds that harbor the moon, or are you the moon that is the destination for the moths?
traditional mediums
works that involve analog mediums like watercolor, gouache, graphite, and even print paper book works like screenprinting, and reductive printing.
Summer's Letters 📮🥪 Summer’s Letters 💌🌥 . Send what you want to say in the mail, perhaps Summer will be kind enough and ask the wind to deliver them for you. Things are always in the move, by next summer, you won’t be the same person you are today. So write out all your words and let it be part of your summer’s memories 🌥
🌳Blindsided 💵 . Story by Snigdha Garud | Art by Ngân Huỳnh Published by Paranoid Tree Press . Thank you Jess and Alyssa for letting me be part of this project! It was so great working with you both and seeing my artwork being part of something bigger. I can’t recommend Paranoid Tree Press enough and I look forward to seeing more great story and illustration from the publication! . “On my way out, I drop a dollar into the tip jar. A moneybag shakes my hand gratefully, escorting me to the gift shop. In the checkout line, I pose with a charismatic cashier named Goldilocks, who assures me the earth is not too hot, not too cold; just right! Another cashier in a different exhibit gives a stirring speech about dangerous heat waves rocking the world, encouraging me to buy a thermos to raise awareness. I leave with three, floored by his profound speech. Your donation was very much appreciated.”
Cat Year 2023 Reductive Linoleum Printing on White, Stardust, and Yellow paper
Burning Gaze Screenprinting on White and Kraft papers
Horror Locates Where the Light is Brightest Editorial Illustration 12” x 9” Mixed Media Watercolor and Digital Medium Based on the podcast Lore episode Rope and Railing. When you are the only person in the brightest place surrounded by water, things get hazy. From the silver-haired woman, to eerie noises at night, or the endless stairs that leads you to unexpected places
With Golden String, Our Universe Was Brought To Life Watercolor, Gouache, Embroidery “With golden string Our universe was brought to life That we may fall in love Every time we open up our eyes.” - Sun, Sleeping At Last
Tarot Illustration - Strength Gouache/Watercolor From behind the mountains, the sun rises with its radiant grace. The figure embraces the lion with the strength she got from nature and the wisdom within her mind. Moving away from the ruins he created, the lion approached the figure like he has known her for a long time. Beneath the shore lie the tender stream that’s slowly moving past the rocks. This illustration was rendered using gouache, watercolor, and colored pencils. My illustration for the card was mainly inspired by the Rider-Waite tarot deck. As always I try to incorporate as many symbols in the illustrations as possible. I hope this card can give you the inner strength you all have within yourself.
Taxonomy, The Witch's Shop Gouache and Watercolor Welcome to the Witch's Shop. Love it or Curse it, we have everything here at the witch's shop. Grab yourself a taxonomy poster of the witch's shop today, who knows what you can find in it...