June 2019

“He potted the flowers just outside his window as a small gift to everyone lucky enough to pass by.”

November 2018

A flat-color campaign illustration for Anthony Morgan, a Democratic candidate for Ypsilanti City Council, depicting him and his opponent, Desirae Simmons as superheroes.

September 2018

Sometimes the best thing to do is forget everything and get lost in a story.

April 2018

We are worthy.

December 2017-

December 2017

I loved Thor: Ragnarok and I especially loved Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie. I hope we get a chance to see much more of her in the future MCU.

November 2017

Illustration based on my short story The House on the Hill, a creepy and supposedly true story told to me by an acquaintance a while ago.

You can read the story here.

October 2017.

I decided to draw Doomfist (from Overwatch) a while back, and I wanted to do one of his legendary skins. The "Spirit" skin was my favorite and I figured it would be a good opportunity to challenge myself with the level of detail and incorporating it with a background using the technique I recently developed.

September 2017.

This week, I decided to practice my portrait skills on Lianne La Havas, based on a photograph by Suki Dhanda. Likenesses are a challenge, especially capturing them with my own style, but with time, I'm sure it'll get easier.

August 2017

If you follow me on social media, you know I'm not too shy when it comes to talking about my mental health. Depression is something I experience more often than I'd like. A more recent episode inspired me to describe the sense of powerlessness I felt when facing an intense, enigmatic force. The Red Wolf was born. Make sure you check out my short story Inferno, which was written as a companion piece to this.

August 2017

A little over a year after I made the original Seeing Stars (one of my more popular pieces) I decided it was time to revisit the character and setting, creating a new version through my recently preferred medium of digital painting vs vector. This was also a good way to further refine and develop my technique with the added challenge of rendering dyed natural hair. 

I also created a noir version (which I honestly think I like more).

July 2017.

"He's the one you send to kill the F*cking Boogeyman."

October 2016

Process Video

I've recently decided to start exploring landscape paintings. I want to create romantic environments that have the same sense of color as my character pieces, but also including a unique, abstract quality that I can hopefully merge with said detailed character pieces. This piece is directly inspired by the photo “Sunset Boulevard” by Simon Matzinger.

July 2017.

Cover commission for good friend and Detroit-based music producer, J. Snow. His EP, Catharsis was experimental, psychedelic & futurist with concepts rooted in both human spirituality and our connection and love of technology. He wanted to create a cover that properly conveyed the spirit of all of these ideas. The center of the piece is his muse living in a distant future, using technology to directly connect with the ancestral holograms/spirits of past musicians.

June 2017.

A piece featuring my favorite Overwatch character to play, D.Va in her junebug/B.Va skin. I'm considering creating a series of all of my favorite Overwatch characters in this fashion as tarot or trading cards.

November 2016.

I was a huge Gargoyles fan growing up, and I recently decided to re-watch the series. I wanted to make a piece dedicated to the lead human character on the show, Elisa Maza.

October 2016.

This piece was created as a tribute to the women in my life who, like myself, are fond of video games. I wanted to challenge the notion of what a "video game hero" looked like and allow fans of the medium to see characters and identities seldom explored in gaming.

September 2016.

May 2016.

Fun mash-up project combining Steven Universe and Avatar/The Legend of Korra.

September 2016

Fun project where I drew myself in several different contemporary styles.

August 2016

Face designs for supporting characters in Kola Boof's upcoming Volcano Woman series published by Woke Comics.

July 2016

This Two-Part commission for ColorOfChange.Org's Future of Equality project explores two potential futures of marginalized communities based on the outcome of environmental and social justice battles (clean water, pollution, transportation, healthcare, police brutality, unemployment, etc.)

The first piece, City of Gold is the optimistic outlook of what the world would be if we win these environmental battles. A bright, Afro-Futuristic city with shining gold buildings and progressive technology. The air is clean, and at the forefront of it all is a natural haired-black woman dressed like royalty, watching the audience with a content smile on her face.

The second piece, City of Loss is a deconstruction of the first piece. It's made to be ugly and depressing, and shows us the world without clean air and water, proper transportation, increased police brutality, the use of technology like drones and machines to keep populations in check, not liberate them. We're presented with an alternate version of the woman from before. She cloaks herself in rags and turns her back to the audience, choosing to take in what her city has become.

These pieces were made entirely in illustrator, with early sketches done in pencil.

April 2016