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A slew of character designs for a secondary character in my upcoming graduate film, who I've been referring to as Dead Human Walking. Their role in the story is to die immediately, and then have to grapple with their own death, so I've been entertaining a wide variety of faces for them.

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I do wish I had some transgender art for TDOV but unfortunately my comic about transgender dogs is still in early ideation. I could post character concepts from it though.

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Character design explorations for Red Reaper. I haven't settled on a final design for her yet colour-wise, but I've got everything else figured out for her!

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Gotta update my damn theme on this blog. I haven't even been able to add my grad program year to my bio since editing on mobile fucks up hyperlinks and I don't want to have to go fetch that code again.

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Compositing assignment from VFX class, starring Domino Dog (animated in ToonBoom) and my balcony (edited heavily in AfterEffects)

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Bunch of design sketches for my upcoming short film. I'm thinking of rewriting it to have Red be the sole main character, so digital sketches of her redesign will be soon to follow. I'm also thinking of renaming the film from Red|Blue to Memento Mori, but I think I might only be considering that name due to the Will Wood song...

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Accidentally locked myself out of this account on my phone because my Secure Folder decided to glitch out and forget my password 👍

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Psychedelic Desert

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Pair of desert drawings, based loosely around the American midwest, for an assignment

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Set of thumbnails of desert design done for an assignment

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Pair of studies done of 1952 London done for a class. One traditional, one digital

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duo of quick charcoal studies done of 1950s London (during the Great Smog) for a class assignment

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Updated my ArtStation again!

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I completely forgot to post this, the first thing I ever drew in Clip Studio Paint

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Series of character design sketches I did for the short PSA I and my classmates made this semester. The first 3 are work for the protagonist, Roo, and the last 2 are for a character who went unused. I heavily referenced the Muppets and the episode of Love, Death + Robots When The Yogurt Took Over.

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Rough draft of an informational poster for my upcoming thesis film, Red|Blue (2026). In the spring semester, there will be an event where each major presents posters of their research, so I'll be refining this before then.

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Another shot from the pro-artist NoAI PSA my classmates and I created this semester. I aimed to try and create a dolly zoom in AfterEffects; this is the result after about 10 different attempts.