This project was for a Schoolism class I took called Starting Your Journey with Cody Gramstad. Our final assignment was to create three images to tell a story using what we learned throughout the course.

I was hesitant to take the class at first, thinking much of the subject matter had been covered in others I'd taken. I'm glad I took this though because it filled some gaps in my knowledge. For example, I already use adjustment layers but never thought to use them to change up time of day in my scenes. I'm very much looking forward to creating images using this process as a guide.

A young wizard’s studies are, yet again, interrupted by heckling outside his home.

After months of enduring this, he finally has had enough. Time to put his studies to use.

The wizard sends a murder of crows to "encourage" the offenders to leave. 😄

Some lighting comps to test which time of day worked best to match my story's intent. In this case, I chose a noon scene to enhance the uncomfortable feeling I wanted to convey.

While this wasn't necessary for the assignment, I created this turn-around for my main character just to practice.

Colour compositions using various colour harmonies.

Different colour compositions using colour harmony for one of the images. I did this for each one.

Some of my thumbnails. Thanks for reading!

I’m finally able to share some artwork I was commissioned to create for an investment firm last year. The exhibit was to feature their employees’ kids’ artwork alongside a professional artist’s interpretation. I was told the event was inspired by the Monster Project, a project I participated in back in 2019. I really enjoyed working on these and I hope these kids keep creating as they have such a great imagination!

The exhibit was delayed until recently which is why I’m just sharing it now. Unfortunately, some of the work I do never sees the light of day (NDAs, projects getting cancelled, postponement, etc.) so it’s great when I do get to share.

What I recently learned from a workshop seems to have crept into my workflow: like those fun textures on the colourful dandelions!