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3D Illustrator, Video Editor & Deck Designer
I used to start illustrating too early.
Now, before I create a single scene, I ask 6 simple questions that help me turn a manuscript into a clear, engaging illustration.
I’m sharing the process in my #descriptchallenge entry. 🎨📖
What’s one step in your creative process you wish you had learned sooner?
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✨ Bringing Heartwarming Stories to Life 📚🎨
Every children's book deserves illustrations that spark imagination and stay in a child's heart forever.
This charming cover is a glimpse of the warm, storybook-inspired artwork I create for authors, publishers, and storytellers. Whether you're publishing your first picture book or growing your collection, I can help transform your ideas into beautiful, print-ready illustrations that children will love.
✅ Children's Book Illustration
✅ Book Cover Design
✅ Character Design
✅ Storybook Layouts
✅ Amazon KDP & Print-Ready Files
If you're looking for illustrations filled with warmth, emotion, and timeless storytelling, let's create something unforgettable together.
💬 Available for commissions on Contra.
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AI video studio · product films and series that scale
Costumes Parisiens 2026, now in motion: George Barbier's 1913 fashion plates, dressed and animated for 2026.
In 1913 George Barbier drew the latest Paris fashion for the Journal des Dames et des Modes: flat stencil colour, one elegant figure per plate, and a caption announcing the look, like "Robe d'intérieur" or "Manteau de théâtre". I found his Costumes Parisiens plates at the Rijksmuseum, where they are in the public domain, cropped ten of them down to the bare stencil and built a Recraft V4 Style from them. Costumes Parisiens 2026 keeps his poses and his captions and dresses them for how we actually live now: a silk blouse over pyjama trousers for the video call, a red delivery backpack worn over a fur-trimmed coat, a theatre coat embroidered with 99 unread badges, a necklace of charging cables, earbuds worn as pearl drops, a ring light carried like a parasol. This version brings four plates to life with Recraft's video tools, set to Erik Satie. Same magazine, a hundred and thirteen years later; only the accessories have changed.
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Affiches 2026: Jules Chéret's Belle Époque posters, advertising the things of 2026.
In the 1890s Jules Chéret covered the walls of Paris with colour lithograph posters: a laughing woman in a swirling yellow dress, hand-drawn lettering shouting the product, colour sprayed across the sheet. I took ten of his posters from the Rijksmuseum, where they are in the public domain, and built a Recraft V4 Style from them, lettering and all. Affiches 2026 keeps his dancing girls and his typography and lets them sell what Paris buys today: free wifi, delivery in ten minutes, the electric scooter, the electric car, noise-cancelling headphones, binge-watching, a dating app and coffee to go. Three posters come to life with Recraft's video tools, and every headline is lettered by the style itself. A hundred and thirty years on, the products have changed; the joy of selling them has not.
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Skazki 2026: Ivan Bilibin's Russian fairy tales, retold with the gadgets of 2026.
Between 1899 and 1902 Ivan Bilibin illustrated a series of Russian fairy-tale booklets: flat ink outlines, watercolour fills and an ornamental folk border around every page. I took ten of his plates from Wikimedia Commons, where they are in the public domain, and built a Recraft V4 Style from them, borders and all. Skazki 2026 keeps his heroes and hands them the gadgets that would get them through the same stories today: Baba Yaga rides a robot vacuum instead of a mortar, Vasilisa lights the dark forest with her phone's flashlight instead of a glowing skull, the Firebird turns out to be a delivery drone, the hut on chicken legs has wifi and a doorbell camera, and Emelya's magic stove simply drives itself. Three plates come to life with Recraft's video tools. The tales are older than the gadgets, and they fit them perfectly.
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Encyclopédie 2026: Diderot's plates of the trades, drawn again for the jobs we do now.
Between 1762 and 1772 Diderot and d'Alembert published eleven volumes of engraved plates showing every trade of their day: the workshop scene above, the tools laid out below, each one numbered Fig. 1, Fig. 2. I took eight of those plates from The Met's Open Access collection, where they are in the public domain, cropped them to the bare engraving and built a Recraft V4 Style from them. Encyclopédie 2026 uses the same layout to document the trades we actually do now: the bike courier with his insulated backpack, the phone repairman, the kitchen-table remote worker, the content creator and her ring light, the barista, the data centre technician, the gamer and the e-scooter charger. Three plates come to life with Recraft's video tools, and the frontispiece puts a smartphone where the Enlightenment put the sun. Same encyclopedia, two hundred and sixty years later; the tools changed, the workshop did not.
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Illustrator & Designer with a Passion for Impact
Illustrator & Designer with a Passion for Impact
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Selling Buoy, so design drift doesn't ship
Selling Buoy, so design drift doesn't ship
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As Design Systems Lead at IXL Learning, I led the creation of a shared design system to unify five-plus products across a decades-old brand. I managed a team of designers, established a biweekly cadence for audits and reviews, and worked directly with product teams to ensure components were built for real production needs. Using atomic design principles and strong foundational tokens for color, spacing, and typography, we created a system that reduced drift, sped up delivery, and made new UI feel cohesive by default. The result was a living design system that teams actually adopted because it worked in practice, not just in theory.
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As Founding Designer at Zeal, I built the product’s UX and UI from zero, designing data tools that helped teachers make sense of student progress across Common Core standards. I spent multiple days per week in classrooms observing real use, during lessons, between classes, and in planning meetings, and redesigned based on what actually worked under time pressure. I led the design of teacher dashboards, proficiency heatmaps, goal-setting tools, and an adaptive classroom game that adjusted difficulty per student while maintaining shared competition. The result was a platform adopted by 100+ schools, where teachers could understand class progress in seconds and make better instructional decisions without wading through raw data.
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Turning your vision into a brand you’re proud of ✨
Turning your vision into a brand you’re proud of ✨
A seasoned digital designer and creative director
A seasoned digital designer and creative director
