Digital Art

Untitled - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

Movie Poster - Age 18
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to superimpose your face onto a movie poster.

Tropical Rainbow - Age 18
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to colorize a high resolution image.

Bakery Advertisement - Age 18
Adobe InDesign

The assignment was to create an advertisement for a bakery using the pro

Movie Poster - Age 18
Adobe InDesign

The assignment was to create a movie poster.

Cartoon Character - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to use only the selection tool to create a cartoon of yourself.

Untitled - Age 18
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to create a house in the same style as the Illustrator house, but this time with realistic textures in Photoshop.

T Shirt - Age 18
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to Photoshop a T Shirt onto a smurf.

Valentine's Day Card - Age 18
Adobe Photoshop

There was a running joke in our class, the professor always called the class clown "thing" instead of his name as part of their playful banter. Instead of having it be a generic Valentine's card, I made it targeted. Also, the professor loves smurfs and kittens.

Imitation - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create an exact copy of the reference image.

Imitation - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create an exact copy of the reference image.

Saint Patrick's Day Card - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

My professor was known to love Smurfs so I used them in every single assignment that I could.

Future World - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to use only the selection tool and transparencies to create this image.

Imitation - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create an exact copy of the reference image.

Imitation - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create an exact copy of the reference image.

Imitation - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create an exact copy of the reference image.

Imitation - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create an exact copy of the reference image.

Font - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create a custom font in Illustrator.

Jellyfish 1 - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

Jellyfish 2 - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

Obama Poster - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The professor chose a selfie for us to use, then we had to Illustrate it in the same style as Obama's campaign poster. I really should have put "Mobama" on it rather than Mona, now that I think about it.

Interface Design - Age 18
Adobe Photoshop

Magazine Front Page - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to make a fake magazine and titles for articles within.

Band Cover - Age 18
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to create a band with your face on it. I put my face on all of them.

Untitled - Age 18
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create an image that includes mountains, a house, a squirrel, and a tree.

Marketing - Age 19
Adobe Illustrator

CD - Age 19
Adobe Illustrator

Wii Game V2 - Age 19
Adobe Illustrator

Invoice Design - Age 19
Adobe Illustrator

"Allison and Emily" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This was a commission from these two little girls. They asked me to draw them, and wanted a rainbow background. They giggled like crazy when it was done.

Untitled - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This was one of the images I made as part of the process to make the DVD cover for my anime.

"Yozora" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The DVD Cover for my anime.

Wii Game V1 - Age 19
Adobe Illustrator

This was part of my portfolio class.

Banner - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

I created yet another intensely busy banner for my website. I love this kind of thing, but it isn't easy to read.

Image Repair - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to repair an image and make it look new again. I thought it would be funny to also remove the guy on the right's cigarette.

Image Repair - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to repair an image and make it look new again. While this ended up looking much better when I was done, I didn't know what to do with the grainy nature of the original image yet.

Self Portrait - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

Image Manipulation - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

One of the first college assignments I did was to replace these women's faces with famous rappers' faces. Matching the skintone was really challenging, because the original photo doesn't resemble them at all.

Image Repair - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

I unfortunately don't have the original photo, but trust me, it was a lot worse than this before.

Marathon Team Shirt - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

I scanned an image of my friend's yearbook that I had drawn on, and digitized the doodles to use them on our shirts for a marathon. She died right after senior year of high school, and her organs were donated. The marathon was for Donate Life.

Commission - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This was a commission for a friend who was writing a story. She gave me a really detailed description, and I came up with this guy right here.

Art Book Page 4 - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This is another page from my art book. The first page was "Darkness of the Heart."

"Lily of Eden" - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

I cut out a person from an image I found on Getty, and superimposed them onto an image I took of a pond.

Collage - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

I was hired by Habitat for Humanity to create a collage. This was meant to be printed and displayed to celebrate someone's retirement.

"Freefall" - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

I scanned and cleaned up one of my old sketches.

Business Card - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

At the end of the school year, I was so excited to have made so many friends that I wanted to do something so that we would stay in touch. Voila! A business card! I blurred my phone number and email, for privacy reasons.

"Darkness of the Heart" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This piece was inspired by the feeling of having a crush on someone who doesn't know you exist, and doesn't want to. There is beauty to it, but it's a prison.

Abstract - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

Art Book Page 3 - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to print out different images and install them in an "art book" that we made.

"Kanashii Kioku" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I took the drawing "Yoshi" and added my face onto it, and modified the image a bit to give it more of an angsty feel.

Self Portrait - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

My teacher took these photos in the hallway next to our classroom. I was feeling very self conscious, and kind of lonely, and had those feelings in mind when making this.

Test - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

Without more context, it's hard to say what the goal of this test was or how well I did on it. I assume #5 was meant to be colorized.

"Triangular Circle" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I used custom brushes and some filters to emphasize the idea of someone giving you onigiri (Japanese rice balls) and the feeling that it's like a delicious, vibrant present.

Yellow Stationery - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

Bush Monkey - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to superimpose someone's face onto a monkey. This was a particularly silly project, but it was fun to turn in and see the teacher's reaction.

Surrealism - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to create a surreal feeling image with a photo of yourself and different overlays and effects. I had my teacher take this photo in the art room after school.

"Sad Memories" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I scanned the drawing "Yoshi" and colorized the background. I was starting to use an eraser and smudge stick when emphasizing hair, and practicing with eyes from the side.

A Small Light - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This one ended up on the announcements as well. The painting of a fan seen on the right was given to my friend Yuri, who was an exchange student from Japan at our school at the time.

Blue Stationery - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I made a bunch of different styles and colors of stationery at the time because while I had trouble speaking to people in person, I could always express myself in little notes and messages.

Purple Stationery - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

Pink Stationery - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The original photo used at the top and bottom was taken at the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival (Sakura Matsuri) in Washington, D.C.

Bookmarks 5 - Age 16
Adobe Illustrator

Bookmarks 6 - Age 16
Adobe Illustrator

GIF - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This is the turnaround for a GIF I made in class as part of an assignment. The GIF itself is in my Animations section, if you'd like to see it.

Pattern - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

Business Card - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This was actually an exam for Computer Graphics 2.

"Expression" - Age 16
Adobe Illustrator

You may recognize this from one of my book covers, the truth is I made it a while ago and used it later on when making my book cover for an assignment.

Bookmarks 2 - Age 16
Adobe Illustrator

I used to make bookmarks, have my Dad drive me to the Kinko's or FedEx Office or whatever, and laminate them. I sold them to people at school for a dollar each.

Bookmarks 4 - Age 16
Adobe Illustrator

In Sanity or In Madness - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This composite actually won a Scholastics award. I was trying to put as much of what I was feeling into this as possible, and as much of who I am into it as possible as well. Every piece has its significance.

Ying Yang - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I had these two bunnies who were born around the same time, and who were always together. I always pictured them as yin and yang, so I used the stamp tool to make them look more like how I saw them.

Business Card - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I made a business card for my services, and started taking orders. I made tons of custom T shirts, prints, and logos for my friends' bands and stuff. It was a blast.

Get Well Soon - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

My friend's Mom wasn't feeling well so I made her a card. I always used to go over to their house after school because we lived near each other, and she would always stock extra ramen in case I was hungry. She was so sweet and kind, and my friend turned out to be just like her.

Journal Cover - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I made this as a cover for my journal, since the cover it came with was very plain. It had not occurred to me at the time that Japanese maple leaves look like marijuana when you color them green. That was not intentional.

Composite Practice - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I had been throwing around ideas as to what I wanted to do for my composite project, and this was one of my brainstorming sessions. Sometimes, even if you're not going to use it, you gotta just make something to get the thoughts out.

Scanned Objects - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This is even more stuff I scanned and edited before adding it into my Composite project.

Birthday Card - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I was experimenting with a wider layout here, but I made my Mom a birthday card using a picture of me as a little kid. She loved it.

Thank You Card - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I made a generic Thank You card to use whenever I wanted to thank someone for something. I love the simplicity of it, I was trying to get the vibe of those cute little Korean stationery stores.

Feathers and Coins - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

You may recognize these from my Composite project. I scanned all of these items myself and edited them so be usable in my project. I often incorporate real objects I own rather than finding images online.

"I Dream in Black and White" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This was another assignment where we had to layer different images on top of each other. I used this as a cover for one of my books after making it, and sold a few prints at the school art show.

Self Portrait - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This was a collage I made that ended up on the morning announcements at school. When they said my name, you could hear my boyfriend scream "That's my girlfriend" from his classroom.

Starbucks - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I won't take credit for this trend, and honestly this is a thing my dad liked to do on his coffee cups sometimes as a joke. So I did it, too.

"Unforgettable" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to take an image of yourself and modify pieces of it, then print it out and use physical layers to add depth. This is the digital version before it was printed and cut out.

"Yuki and Chibi" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I was paying homage to our two original bunnies who made all the others. Yuki was pretty aggressive, and chibi was very mellow. They were both HUGE rabbits, despite how small and cute they look.

Momo - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I took this photo of my cat, Momo, and removed the debris that was on the sidewalk around him using the stamp tool.

Untitled - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The idea of helping people was on my mind as I drew this. It's part of a whole series of drawings I made featuring two characters.

Untitled - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This is the bottom half of the other drawing in this series. There are also a bunch of comics, too.

Neji - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I changed another background!

Birthday Card - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This was the first card I made from scratch. Usually before, I had used some kind of template. It was surprisingly easy to do! Just fold in half and give to your friend.

"Boku" - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I actually owned these clothes, and there is a family portrait somewhere with me wearing them. I was starting to see myself as more of an adult, and trying to figure out what I wanted to be like.

Bunni - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

My mom raised chickens, rabbits, and goats on our farm. One of the baby bunnies was just so small and helpless that I was scared he would die, so I took him to school in a little basket and made him warm clothes from a hospital sock.

Comics - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I made a comic panel style layout, and then proceeded to fill it with whatever I thought of. Count Crapula, Cheeseball and Spoot, and some other random drawings that popped into my head.

Inuyasha - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

One of the reasons I loved this anime so much was because it was popular when I was first learning Japanese in school, and I expanded my vocabulary a lot by translating the opening and ending songs.

Untitled - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

A serene nighttime moment with a girl and her cat. Nothing gets better than this.

Daiji - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I was learning to do digital portraits better, how to blend, and how to make the ends of hair seem less choppy. I was playing with adding subtle details, rather than really obvious ones here.

Drop - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to demonstrate the ability to create a drop of water realistically on any background of your choosing.

Lume's Birthday Party - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

My friends and I took turns drawing things on my computer at my brother's birthday party. The one on the left was mine, middle was Rebah's, bottom right was Jen's.

Drimas - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This was a more developed version of the doodle from my brother's birthday party.

Background Replacement - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I was practicing removing the background of an image using the select tool and the masking tool. While the colors don't match between the background and foreground, the lines are pretty clean.

Bleach - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I was drawing the main characters from Bleach in a loose style, getting used to doing other people's characters without being strict with the lines. Deciding on what makes that character recognizable as themself.

Fullmetal Alchemist - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

A drawing of a drawing. Classic anime nerd stuff right here.

Gaming Zone - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This joke has not aged well when it comes to 16 year olds and guns. That being said, here is a sign I made. I had no intention of ever actually shooting anyone, if that wasn't obvious.

My Mom - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

Not my most detailed drawing, but I got the eyebrows right.

School Website - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

This assignment was to make a new website for the school. I used the school's colors (black and gold) and a ton of Photoshop brushes to make collage style banners and buttons. This assignment taught me about layout, all the different pieces it takes to make a website, and a little bit of programming.

Collage - Age 15
Adobe Photoshop

This started as a pencil drawing in my sketchbook, then I scanned and colored it, and then added collage elements to it that would help express how I was feeling. A lot of it is black and white because I felt a lot of pressure to conform, but I left myself in color because that really didn't feel like me.

Yuna - Age 15
Adobe Photoshop

This is the drawing without anything over top of it.

Untitled - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I got a Wacom tablet for christmas that year, so of course I was spending all of my time drawing endlessly in Photoshop. Yes, I had other programs, but it doesn't matter.

Aunt Mona - Age 16
Adobe Photoshop

I was thinking about my favorite auntie as I made this. She lived in Egypt, but was one of the most French people I've ever known. She was my Mom's favorite sister, which is why I'm named after her.

Japanese Lanterns - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I had an image of these Japanese lanterns that I liked, so I chose one color (orange) and recreated it digitally from the reference.

Kaigai - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

This is the same character I designed for my anime, but I was messing around with using the gradient tool to make hair look more textured.

Shell - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I used many layers and colors to draw a shell that I found an image of online.

Sunset - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I was still practicing that style of using a million layers and colors to create an image, and this time it was a sunset.

Swirls - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I was practicing using one of the many warping tools in Illustrator. This one warped your image in a swirl pattern, which I thought was really fun to play with.

Book Cover - Age 17
Adobe Dreamweaver

This assignment was to create a book cover. For the cover art, I cut out a person from an image I found on Getty, and superimposed them onto an image I took of a pond.

"A Sensation Lost to Us Forever" - Age 15
Adobe Photoshop

The assignment was to create a collage. I used many different images and custom brushes to create this.

Kimono Woman - Age 17
Adobe Photoshop

This was my very first attempt at a digital portrait. I was having a lot of trouble with the shading in the face, because I hadn't learned how to use lighting and skintones yet.

"Cat's Eye" - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to create a book cover. I was really into Stephen King books at the time, so I was going for that kind of vibe.

"Hobbit" - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I did a portrait of a hobbit, this wasn't for an assignment I was just doodling.

Kaigai - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I designed a character for my anime.

Headphones - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I traced an image of my headphones, trying to match the shape and color as best I could.

Plumeria - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

As you've probably figured out by now, not all of my images are going to be in order. This is because I don't actually have them organized, and I'm uploading them as I find them. This one was used to make my logo.

Logo - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

My mom had a farm, and asked me to make her a logo so she could advertise to her friends that they could come visit and enjoy nature. A "nadi" in arabic is a park or a club, people go there to hang out or order food, and it's always outdoors.

Ramen - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

Every day when I came to lunch, my boyfriend had gotten two ramens. One for me and one for him. They weren't expensive or anything, but it was really just the gesture and the thoughtfulness that mattered. It was "I want to have lunch with you"

Sumi e 001 - Age 15
Adobe Photoshop

I wanted to portray what some things felt like as a person with synesthesia. I still don't think I did it justice, but it's hard to make a 2D version of a moving 3D thing.

Letterhead - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to use the logo we had made earlier in the year to design a custom letterhead.

Self Portrait - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to use a photo the teacher had taken in class to do a self portrait in Illustrator. My necklace had a small piece of rice in it with my boyfriend's and my name written very tiny.

Test - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

This was an actual test to see if I could use the different tools taught to us during the school year.

Fake ID - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to make a fake ID.

"Cuuuute" - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I put a photo of my cat into a star. This was just me messing around with the ability to insert an image into a shape.

"Ed" - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I had just started watching Fullmetal Alchemist, and decided to digitally draw the main character.

Business Cards - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to make business cards using the logos we had designed for ourselves earlier in the year.

"Hibiscus" - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I was playing around with layers and color to make a complex looking flower.

License Plate - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

I had to create a license plate for myself. At the time, my boyfriend used "Riku540" on his website, so I added the 540 to the end of mine as well. He liked it very much.

Naruto and Circles - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

Another anime that I loved at the time. I used more transparency settings and also played around with lines and brush strokes to see what effects I liked.

Warning Sign - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to make a warning sign with a realistic looking silhouette and text on it.

Wildcat - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The assignment was to redesign the logo of a nearby school, and practice more professional looking logo design.

Binder Design - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

My very first assignment in Computer Graphics was to design the binder I would use to hold my assignments. This is where we learned the very basics of how to use Illustrator, but since I had been using it all my life I just had fun with it.

"Goblet" - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The second assignment was to use several of the tools to create a reflection of the image the teacher provided.

Logo - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The third assignment was to create a logo for yourself. I used many layers to draw my favorite flower, and added a chalk style drawing of my headphones over it.

Transparency - Age 15
Adobe Illustrator

The fourth assignment was to demonstrate usage of different transparency levels. I made a bunch of hearts over the name of my favorite anime at at the time, Inuyasha.

Who Am I - Age 8
Microsoft Word

The assignment was to introduce myself in Arabic and also demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Word.