This drawing was inspired by listening to Steely Dan's song "Bodhisattva" as I drove through the desert on a dirt road among Joshua trees:
A pet portrait
A friend of mine saw my Photoshop experiments and asked me to create a grand and cheesy portrait of her cat, in the tradition of 1970s awkward family photos:
A political portrait
Feeling the emotional impact of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before the U.S. Senate in the fall of 2018, I created this portrait of her, using Adobe Illustrator. The style was inspired by Shepard Fairey's famous "Hope" poster of Barack Obama. I shared my art online and it went a little bit viral, getting over 50,000 "likes" on social media.
Just for fun
In order to practice new skills with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, I've played around with funny and absurd images, often involving cats:
For practice, I transformed the image on the left (created by Mario Olvera) to have a dog in the balloon instead of a shark: