Visual Design & Art

Visual Art

Abstraction in pencil and digital media

  • Illustration
  • Digital Art
  • Mixed Media
Three framed pencil drawings hung on a dark wall of white line-work, with a magenta and cyan light streak crossing the right side.
Timeline
Drawings 2023 –⁠ present · Digital 2020
Type
Personal
Role
Solo Artist
Context

An evolving personal practice in intuition and abstraction across traditional and digital media. The drawings are unplanned, starting from a shape, a gradient, or a single line. The digital work pushes a photograph until it turns into something else, merging with digital drawings or other photos. Neither is a picture of anything in particular.

Pencil on paper · 2023 – present

Intuitive Drawings

Non-objective illustrations focusing on value, rhythm, and form.

A soft rounded form beside a curling stroke and a single small bead.
A fanned shell of graded lines opening across the sheet.
Pale ribbons tangling over a black ground inside a white border.
Thin contour lines gathering into a curled, figure-like form.
A hexagonal sheet holding a chain of cells and a feathered burst.
A symmetrical crest of spikes and hooks facing the viewer.
Soft interlocking loops fading into pale gradients.
Circles and swirling bands crowding a dark, densely worked sheet.
A tall panel of ovals, scales, and ribbons packed edge to edge.
Fine spidery lines branching out of darkness.
Nine small square studies arranged in a three-by-three grid.
A tube-like loop stretched horizontally across the sheet.
A winged form built from tapering blades and rows of small dots.
White ribbons winding over a black ground inside a white border.
A shaded sphere with a thin winged shape rising off it.
Dense curling shells and hooks worked edge to edge in deep graphite.
An ornate vertical panel of shells, eyes, and coiling forms.
Soft rolling gradients overlapping like low hills.
An angled sheet holding a chain of pale cells between two feathered dark bursts.
Dark currents of graphite folding over one another.
A heavy black loop knotted through a field of gray currents.
A leaf-like shape with spines wrapping a rounded body.
Digital · 2020

Digital Explorations

A mix of digital illustration, photo distortion, 3D height maps, light painting, and more. Made in Mirror Lab, Lightroom, Picsart, Medibang, and other free tools.

A monochrome swirl breaking into shards at its foot.
A pink and magenta ridge raised as a height map.
A burning house held inside a tangle of black branches.
A teal smear dragged across black.
A violet ridge under a burning orange horizon.
Gray fragments raised into a height map on black.
Hands caught in cyan and coral light.
A white orb inside a thin iridescent ring.
A white ridgeline tearing out of black.
An engraved bloom sitting on a finely ruled ground.
Terrain built from blocks of saturated color.
Liquid trails of light drawn across black.

Process Examples

The blown plastic bubble photographed on a gray ground, beside five images pulled out of it.
Made from a photo of a plastic bubble toy.
Six more images made from the same bubble — rings, spirals, and flares in violet on black.
The finished piece: a monochrome swirl with a small figure falling through it, breaking into shards below.
The four steps behind it — the backlit keyboard photographed, warped into liquid ribbons, raised into a height map of white spikes, and the figure posed in a free online 3D modeler.
Made from a keyboard photo, warped and turned into a height map, plus a figure from a free online 3D modeler.
All work

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