Personal Project: Illustrated journal of places/things I personally visited and seen, with the skeleton character as my avatar.
Private Commission: Store front of the Yakitori (grilled chicken on skewers) restaurant “Sankame (Three Tortoises)” in Nagoya, Japan.
Kame (tortoise), Tsuru (crane), and Tanuki (raccoon figurine) are all considered as lucky symbols in Japan.
Illustration for the essay “Whose Weil?” in The Drift Magazine issue 14 about Simone Weil, a French philosopher and political activist, who was called “The Red Virgin” for her asceticism, communism, and scorn for femininity
Illustration for The American Scholar, for an article about “True” foraging
For the fall 2024 Smith Quarterly of Smith College; portraits of five alumni who have shaped today’s culinary scenes in the US
Illustration for L. A. Affairs, a popular weekend column in LA Times, published on Feb. 2, 2024. The essay was about a newly-wed girl having an affair and ultimately destroying her marriage.
-Society of Illustrator Illustrators 66 Selected
-Communication Arts Illustration Annual 64 Award of Excellence
-Applied Arts 2023 Winner
-World Illustration Award 2024 Shortlisted
Personal Project. New York Cityscape
Opener and inside illustrations for “Love Lessons” in LDS Living Magazine May/June 2024 issue, about lessons we can learn from the parables.
-World Illustration Awards 2024 Shortlisted
Personal Project: Originally made for the Instagram illustration challenge called “Folktale Week” for a made-up story about a skeleton castaway.
Private Commission: Inside views of Bangkok Supper Club
-Society of Illustrator Illustrators 67 Selected
Private Commission: Illustrations of Fish Cheeks restaurant’s four partners preparing for its opening back in 2016
Illustration for an article in The Drift Magazine issue 12, about Gandhi and how his image has been idolized, mass-produced, and commodified by the government and public.
For the essay about Judith Butler in The Drift magazine issue 12
-18th edition of Tapurulan illustration competition “Tilt” selected
-American Illustration AI42 Selected Winner
Andare en tilt (going haywire in Italian) on tilt (poker term for making bad & costly decisions out of frustration), and of course everyone and everything is tilted. Will be included in the exhibition and printed calendar in 2023.
-World Illustration Award 2023 Longlisted
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-3X3 International Illustration Show No. 21 Merit Award
Unpublished portraits of Mayor Adams (NY) and Mayor Lightfoot (Chicago) for The Drift magazine issue 10
Personal Project. Phuket, Thailand 2022
Private commission
Commissioned painting on a black sideboard
-3x3 International Illustration Awards 2021 Honorable Mention
-Society of Illustrators Illustrators 63 selected
Illustrations for an article in LDS Living magazine March/April 2023 issue about connection between Easter and Passover traditions
Private commission
-Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2017: Award of Excellence
-World Illustration Award 2017 Shortlisted
Cover and inside illustrations for The Writer’s Chronicle Octover/November 2016 issue.
-3x3 Magazine: International Illustration Awards Honorable Mention 2021
Cover illustration for Tin House Magazine Summer Reading 2017 issue.
-Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles: Illustration West 60 selected 2022
Series of illustrations for an article “Insights from an Inactive Gay Mormon” by John Bonner in LDS Living Magazine May/June 2018 issue.
CD cover illustrations for “Euphoria Love” by BRENYAMA
-Society of Illustrators: Illustrators 58 selected
-Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles Illustration West 58 selected
Commissioned by ContentsPower Corp. Illustrations of short stories in their English workbooks for non-English-speaking children.
Unpublished
A collection of animal illustrations
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Small illustrations of sea creatures for their sushi book
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Illustrations for their product labels and packages
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