Portfolio
Portfolio
Projects
A History of Mistrust
A 30-slide Instagram series on why some communities struggle to trust doctors, from the Tuskegee study to community-led care. Includes the full slides, process work and sources.
Avery Ember Day Brand
My personal brand identity: logos, color, type and voice, built to hold up on dark and light backgrounds. See the complete system.
SECTION 6 Logo Design
Logo design for SECTION 6, an animated series pitch registered with the WGAW.
Gallery
In Danger
DigitalA portrait drawn from a photograph in Photoshop, its hand-drawn lines altered to glow an urgent red and blue. The subject's bored stare shows how one grows numb to emergencies just to survive.
Chill
Traditional, DigitalA colored pencil drawing, flattened in Photoshop. The subject protects his chill vibes with both arms raised in defense, while bright pink and orange waves swirl all around.
Gross
Traditional, DigitalAn acrylic painting, flattened in Photoshop. The subject recoils in full-face disgust, with eyes squeezed into a wince and lip curled, the cool blue skin popping against a red collar and a black background.
Emergence
DigitalA digital painting in Procreate. Two subjects rise out of a dark purple haze like smoke: one bows forward in deep blue, head in hand, while the other arches back in fiery orange, face turned up to the light.
Faces
TraditionalA watercolor and marker painting drawn from an assortment of photographs. Faces with no eyes crowd every inch of the page in a rainbow of colors, each one only a nose and an open mouth: some lick their lips, some gasp, some bare their teeth.
Lollipop
TraditionalAn acrylic painting made from a photograph. A face tilts back in close-up, eyes closed, as a glossy blue lollipop on a red stick slips between parted lips. Soft violet and periwinkle skin sits against a warm brown background.
Overflow
Traditional, DigitalAn acrylic painting, color corrected in Photoshop. A subject with pale blond hair and flushed pink skin rolls their eyes back into their head, leaving only the whites. Thick black ink runs down from both eyes and the mouth, set against a smeared grey background and a red collar.
Stairs
Traditional, DigitalA colored pencil drawing made from a photograph, color corrected in Photoshop. Seen from below, a subject in a ribbed blue sweater climbs a green carpeted stairwell. The worn sole of a brown boot fills the foreground, framed by the black rails of the banister and the yellow light of the hall above.
Beheaded
Traditional, DigitalAn acrylic painting, color corrected in Photoshop. A severed head with a shock of hot pink and orange hair floats in a churning blue background. Black X's mark the eyes, and thick black paint drips from the mouth and the cut at the neck.
Shadow
TraditionalAn acrylic painting made from a photograph. Shadow, a scruffy black puppy, grins at the viewer with his pink tongue out and one ear flopped over, his tail a blur of white strokes. He stands under a graffiti-covered bridge, with shrubs lining the edges of the concrete and a red and orange skateboard tipped up beside him.
Texas Lake Landscape
Traditional, DigitalA chalk pastel drawing of Canyon Lake, Texas, made from a photograph and color corrected in Photoshop. Sandy dunes dotted with green shrubs and tall brown grasses roll down to deep blue water and whitecaps. Above, a billowing white cloud rises from a band of pink clouds along the horizon.
Moonlight
DigitalA digital painting in Procreate. Looking straight up through a ring of bare, olive-toned trees, a thin crescent moon glows in a deep indigo sky. Its light pours out in long violet rays, and three black birds cross the sky beside it.