This piece belongs to my series called “The Intangibles”. Charged to illustrate the word “decay,” I remembered watching a documentary with my dad and seeing a scene of a fallen warrior skeleton with an arrow in his skull. This struck me, so I wanted to recreate that feeling. Using just pen & ink with grey shade markers, I aimed to give my audience a sense of silence in this piece in order to commemorate the fallen soldier and create a sense of abandonment.

Everyone has their own demon, who bosses them around, but it is generally wise to shun this demon’s advice. In this piece, I conceptualized my demon based on prior knowledge of what demons look like (thank you Disney). I chose to use only three colors - black, red and orange - to create a sense of diabolical evil within my piece.

This piece is done in a comic style where the actual drawing is boxed inside a tilted panel. By using this effect, I wanted to make my audience feel unsettled about the situation inside the panel. I used pens and colored markers to make an eye with a fire reflected in its cornea, because it is through senses like sight that we first come into contact with fear-inspiring visual data.

This also belongs to my “Intangibles” series. In fact, this is the piece that started all the others -- the pioneer some might say. I thought of the most comfortable hobby that teenagers these days enjoy: watching Netflix. Using pens and grey shade markers, I created shadows that I imagined would be in a dark room with only the laptop screen as the source of light.

This piece belongs to my “Intangibles” series. I came up with the idea of a death macabre from playing Magic The Gathering and the idea of their costume from my knowledge of “Dias de los Muertos”. Using pen and ink with grey shade markers for this piece, I wanted to show my audience the graciousness of the macabre.

I received a profoundly mysterious phrase from my art teacher: my assignment was to illustrate “wondrous strange.” The first thought that came into my mind when I searched up the meaning was to illustrate a gnome in “gravity falls” style tossing candies (since it was Halloween). Once I had completed my sketch, I went over my final lines in pen to give my gnome some boldness and make my piece feel official.

After challenging myself to illustrate the word “fire,” the first thought that came to my mind was drawing a dragon that breathes fire, because that is apparently what dragons do, although I have never seen one in real life. Using pen & ink as always, but with a touch of color markers, I aimed to bring some personality to my character.

What is crazier than depicting “shock” using a kangaroo who is carrying a huge battery and also is throwing shurikens. I came up with this idea of creating an army of animal ninjas when I was cleaning up the leaves behind our backyard over Thanksgiving. I used pens and colored markers to give this kangaroo character while also highlighting the fact that he is dashing back so fast that he creates lighting shock in the process. Thanks to the creation of this piece, I found my weakness in drawing lightning effect and had the chance to be a better artist.

Slash belongs to my animal ninja series. I thought that nothing would embody a greater warrior than a pig. I made this pig into a hero, giving him a serious facial expression that he is committed in making this slash. I used pens and colored markers to make this pig a bolder warrior, I also used markers to achieve shades in his clothes.

I came up with the idea for this piece when I caught two bunnies running across our backyard during Thanksgiving. I thought about how fast those bunnies were -- they went into the bushes and disappeared just as fast, leaving no trace behind, giving me the idea of a bunny ninja, whose his favorite escape method is to use smoke bombs. I only used pens and grey shade markers in this piece because I thought about amplifying the feeling of all-encompassing smoke

I was inspired by the character Zenyatta in a game called “Overwatch” in the process of creating this monk. The meaning of the word gave me an idea of sketching out a monk right away -- what is more calm and peaceful than monks?  I used pens and colored markers to make this piece, and because I had recently used the internet to teach myself various techniques for making shadows on clothes, I tested those new skills on this piece.

This piece tells the story of a naughty monk who tends to get himself into trouble. In this particular piece, he performs a devastating kung-fu kick to the bell that knocks other monks out of the panel and creates a ground-breaking vibration. I used pens with colored markers in this piece because I wanted to create different effect when different colors are used, making my audience laugh from classic slapstick.

In this comic I tried to convey the feeling that every student gets when it is lunch time -- how anxious we can get waiting for lunch. In order to create the tension when the clock ticks, I used different sized panels to describe time. I used pens and colored markers to create this piece.

What is one definition of luck? We were all familiar with the old Disney cartoons where “luck” is portrayed as a piano falling but not hitting anyone aside from the ground. In this comic, our character is enjoying his daily stride when a careless individual accidentally knocks a flower pot, and that pot proceeds to fall onto our unlucky character. Yet is he truly unlucky? I used pens and different values of colored markers to achieve variation between panels.

This comic is all about the spirit of “Rocky,” because Rocky was the first person who came to my mind when I thought of “resiliency”. This comic depicts an underground fight club, where I got to show off my shadow knowledge using grey shade markers while also gave the my characters their personality and their individuality when colored them with markers. There are two panels where I decided it would be a good moment to break the fourth wall, making them deliver a devastating blow to each other, enough to knock one out of the frame.