My work is me. When it comes to what I create, I do so with the intention of making art that not only is really fun and energetic, but also engaging and insightful.
I think the world is broken. I think that people are so focused on being at each other's throats that they can't see the good that we can do if we work together as one to make living life truly worth it. That's why when I make my art, I want it to be both a form of escapism for others (as my comic book inspirations are for me) and to be a match that ignites a fire in people to want to be different. I want people to get freaky. To get weird. To get radical. But most importantly, to do the right thing.
I hop that my work is received well and accomplishes what I set out to do. I hope that people look at my art and see that, deep down, I'm someone who just wants to be heard and wants everything to be okay. And I want to find connections with people that maybe- hopefully- feel the same way.
The work included is, I believe, a good encapsulation of how I feel about my work.
This piece, done in May of 2024, was created during the height of the Palestine and Israel conflict and focuses on how the United States government is willingly funding a genocide (notice the colors of the Palestinian flag on the gentleman's bracelet). If the White House doesn't care about killing children, why shouldn't we just kill them instead?
This sketch from November 2023 is of a cyborg samurai, fighting for his life and trying to escape the oncoming gunfire while trying to fight back. He's from a story that one of my best friends came up with of a robot warrior living in a world where no one wants him alive.
This is a piece I made in July 2022 from a concept of a vampire story I wanted to develop as either a screenplay or a graphic novel, following a failed WW2 experiment turned into horrific bloodsucker against their own will.
A sketch from June 2023, I made this a few weeks following the death of my grandfather, who was also an artist and a big inspiration for me. This was a message for myself to stay strong and to keep building myself as a person, brick by brick, and go on with my life even when I don't want to.
This final sketch from April 2022, the oldest piece here, is of the first character I ever created, the rockstar from the future, Johnny Moon. Here, he's firing up and getting ready to swing his guitar axe at whatever off-screen foe he's about to face with a smile.
With these pieces, I wanted to capture energy, individuality, isolation, the bizarre, and anger. I carry all of these emotions with me while I work to varying degrees. Because above everything else, above the escapism, the horror, the revolution, it's all me.
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