This poster design for Nature’s Heritage Keep It Fresh campaign promotes their new strain, Snake’s Cake S1. I collaborated with Nature’s Heritage and Octopus Creative Group to illustrate a scene that evokes the bold flavor profile and powerful experience of the strain. This was an incredibly fun project because I was given so much creative freedom, resulting in a richly-detailed psychedelic landscape.

This is a digital portrait of a band from Texas, Khruangbin. With this piece, I tried to capture the awesome psychedelic energy of their live concert experience.

I started by drawing a preliminary pen and marker sketch (above). Once that was established, I gathered different reference photos from their live performances - compositing together individual photos of the band members. I had a lot of fun experimenting with exaggerated color intensity and using ripple effects to mimic sound waves throughout.

These two portraits were done as a personal commission, for which I created digital portraits in an oil pastel style. I enjoyed the challenge of mimicking the look and feel of a pastel drawing, and furthermore creating two portraits that hang well together side-by-side.

This piece is a digital illustration that I created in response to the senseless genocide happening in Palestine, which has been perpetrated by Israel (with help from the United States). I’ve represented the symbol for peace - a dove with olive branch - covered with blood, signifying the continued lack of effort towards a peaceful resolution. It’s called “Two-State Solution” because the use of that phrase has been often used as a false call for peace in the region.

With this quick digital portrait, I wanted to pay homage to arguably the most influential Hip-Hop producer of all time, James “J Dilla” Dewitt Yancey. Although he tragically passed away from a rare disease in 2006, he still managed to have an incredibly prolific career in such a short amount of time. He left behind not only an expansive disography of solo work, but also produced and rapped on timeless classics for artists such as A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Common, The Roots, Erykah Badu and Slum Village. His innovative use of irregular drum patterns left a heavy influence on not only Hip-Hop but music as a whole, as detailed in Dan Charnas’ book “Dilla Time.”