Ever Wolfsbane

Medium: Digital – Raster and vector format

This is the second piece of my three part mental health series, “Paranoia”. The series started with “Psychosis” as an entry to a psychedelic art show at Insomnia Gallery in Houston, TX.

I started this piece painting over an image of my face with bright colors, moving on to creating the overlaying shapes in vector format, and applying them to the piece with a layer effect. I wanted the appearance to be messy to depict the chaos of the condition. I finished with adding a border and contrasting black diagonal lines across the piece.

Medium: Mixed Media – Digital, ink pencils, and watercolor

This is one of my pieces from my AP-2D concentration, focused on mental disorders. Part of requirements of the concentration was have a visual progression throughout it, so I chose to start with completing digital works and progress to combining digital and traditional mediums. This piece is one of the later ones in the concentration, so it exhibits minimal digital elements with an emphasis in traditional mediums.

To depict the disorder of trichotillomania, I digitally edited the model’s hair to give her a partially bald appearance. I then rendered a pattern of locks of hair in the background and dripped watercolor in the chosen color scheme at the top of the page to tie the piece together.

Medium: Digital – Raster and vector format

This is the first piece of my three part mental health series, “Psychosis”. It originated as a psychedelic piece to be entered in a themed art show at Insomnia, when I realized that it had alot of visual elements of the experience of psychosis. I then decided to create more pieces like it to make a series of them.

I started this piece painting over an image of my face with bright colors, moving on to creating the overlaying shapes in vector format, and applying them to the piece with a layer effect. I wanted the appearance to be messy to depict the chaos of the condition. I finished with adding a border and contrasting black lines because I felt like something was still missing. It turned out that was what it took to bring the whole thing together.

Medium: Block ink and soft pastel
Surface: Cotton paper

This was a piece that I did in high school as part of my AP-2D curriculum. We were given the task of creating a stamp out of a styrofoam block and making a pattern out of it. I had decided to make three stamp designs: a spine design, a small design for the body, and a large pattern for the background. I then applied the stamps with block ink and rendered the figure behind the designs with soft pastel after they dried. I was inspired to create this piece as a homage to my Nigerian heritage.

Medium: Soft pastel
Surface: Velvet paper

This was a piece that I did in high school as part of my AP-2D curriculum. Our project was to make a design out of a repeating objects and I chose pennies mostly because I knew I could get a lot of them. I thought going with a juxtaposition of portraying hard, copper pennies with soft pastels on a soft, velvet paper would be interesting and the result proves that I made a good choice.