Open magazine featuring artwork and an article titled 'An Artist's Guide to NFTs' with stylized illustrations of space, planets, and abstract designs.

Publications

ROLE -> Illustrator + Designer

A collection of editorial illustration and publishing work spanning books, magazines, and more. These projects have included everything from conceptual artwork and layout design to custom typography and hand-drawn assets.

My approach flexes to match the tone and audience of each piece, whether collaborating with publishers or contributing to editorial teams.

Three abstract illustrations with black, white, and yellow colors, featuring cosmic and space elements such as planets, stars, and clouds, connected with geometric shapes and hands interacting with the illustrations.

An Artist’s Guide to NFTs Illustrations

CONTENT MAGAZINE
ISSUE 14.3 2022

  • For Content Magazine’s piece on the rise of NFTs in relation to art makers, I created a series of illustrations that reflect the strange, in-between nature of digital ownership: both fleeting and permanent. The artwork leans into a surreal, space-meets-tarot vibe, with pixel blockchains, planets, and layered symbolism.

Illustration showing two sets of comic-style sketches comparing two versions of a digital comic. The first row (V.1) depicts images of floating objects, including a smiling square character, tablets, and abstract shapes in space and clouds. The second row (V.2) shows the same square character emerging into space, holding a tablet, with lunar or cosmic backgrounds, indicating a more dynamic and expansive scene.
Open books with black and white illustrations of a slot machine, a book, and a hand holding a phone, set against an orange background with doodle-style illustrations of glasses, a camera, headphones, a maze, a diamond, and a lightbulb.

Analog Church and Analog Christian

BOOKS BY JAY KIM
PUBLISHED BY INTERVARSITY PRESS

  • I created a series of sketch-like illustrations for Jay Kim’s books Analog Church and Analog Christian, published by InterVarsity Press. These pieces supported key themes in each book, focusing on human connection, spiritual formation, and the tension between digital convenience and embodied faith. They acted as key section markers throughout the books.

Book cover titled 'The Meat and Potatoes of Life' by Lisa Smith Molinari, depicting a smiling woman's profile with curly orange hair, set against a blue background with white text and a pattern of wavy lines. An alphabet chart below shows uppercase, lowercase, and numbers in a handwritten style.

The Meat and
Potatoes of Life

BOOK BY LISA MOLINARI
PUBLISHED BY ELVA RESA 2019

  • For Lisa Molinari’s memoir, I illustrated the cover and designed the full interior layout. The visual style takes inspiration from 1950s design to match the book’s playful, chick-lit tone. I also created a custom typeface used for chapter headings and accents to bring in a cohesive, hand-drawn touch.

Coloring book titled "Coloring My Military Life" featuring a cover illustration of three friends with backpacks overlooking a landscape with a looped road, river, and trees, with a pin marker in the background.

Coloring My Military Life (Book 2)

ADULT COLORING BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ELVA RESA 2016

  • Created during the height of the adult coloring book wave, Coloring My Military Life Book 2 was one of my first major freelance projects. I illustrated 30 original pages designed to resonate with both kids and adults, reflecting the everyday rhythms and resilience of military family life. Since this pre-dated easily affordable and accessible drawing tablets, each piece was hand-drawn, inked on tracing paper, and digitized: a labor-intensive process that set the tone for my future in illustration work.

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