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Characters in Environment
Lee Sambas
This piece was created in my sophomore year for an assignment about historical narrative illustration. I chose to depict the famous tale of Emperor Ai of Han and his lover, "The Passion of the Cut Sleeve". The tale's relevance as a famous queer anecdote has stuck with me ever since I first read it, which is what moved me to illustrate it for this assignment. I focused primarily on the drapery throughout the scene, as well as populating the environment in a believable and visually engaging way.
2027
Digital Illustration
Rat House
Camilo Velasco
2025
Pen and ink, watercolor
Critical Resistance Informational Collateral
Braylon Thompson
2028
Digital
Gumroad App
Seeun Do
The Gumroad app design makes a new education sub-brand by breaking the tutorial section of the Gumroad website into smaller categories. The existing website has many different items, which made it hard to find what you were looking for, so this app was made to help users who are interested in tutorials find and explore content more easily. It includes tutorials from different fields and uses friendly characters and an easy-to-use interface to improve the user experience.
2026
Digital
Gesture Sketches
Susana Antunes
In animation, understanding the shapes, forms, and volumes of the characters you're working with is an integral foundation for every animator. Cafe Sketch prepares us for this with these 30s-2min sketches of both animal and human figures. My process began with sketching out around 10-20 different poses and angles of a specific animal in pencil. Once I became comfortable with the shape and volume, I would advance my gestures into ink, really monopolizing my strokes to capture the essence and character of the gesture.
2026
Ink
Mama's Boy Storyboard
Jay Young
2026
Digital Drawing
Hula Girl
Katheryn Wadsworth
2028
Cardboard & Mixed Media Sculpture
Trash Pandas
Lillian Watson
"Trash Pandas" is a piece created for the class 3D Making With Care in First Year Experience. The piece was to challenge students to concentrate on the layers that make up an environment (foreground, middle-ground, and background). This piece was inspired by a TikTok where someone recorded raccoons traveling across a telephone wire from house to house.
2027
Mixed Media
Soft Sculpture
Sid Frazier
2028
Repurposed Objects
Soft Sculpture
Pierce Leiss
2028
Repurposed Objects
Blind Contour Drawing
Liam Dempsey
2028
Mixed Media
