PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO
ILLUSTRATION
I like to incorporate a variety of colours and textures into my work! I also like to play around with lighting and rendering effects to create vivid compositions.
This is the program for The Enchanted Window - an interactive children's theatre performance based in Cape Town, South Africa.
This is the program for The Enchanted Window - an interactive children's theatre performance based in Cape Town, South Africa.
For the Half-Museum Adventure Series
For the Half-Museum Adventure Series
For the Half-Museum Adventure Series
My contributions include the character illustrations, speech bubbles and text.
projects
Here are some of the larger pieces I worked on!
RUSH
RUSH is a lighthearted sci-fi adventure comic set within an urban, time-travelling South Africa. The story follows Sebastian and Donnay - an unlikely pair brought together by a disastrous sequence of events.
This is an Afromanga I produced alongside Eric Gardiner for our Honours research project. The project aimed to not only explore comic and manga formats; but also solidify Afromanga as a viable visual storytelling medium for African contemporary creatives.
The first issue is featured in the Blood, Sweat and Ink compendium, which you can learn more about here!
the Half-Museum Adventure Series
Laura and her friends have the best after school hangout: her grandmother's International Half-Museum. Filled to the brim with half-trinkets and artefacts, the whole place oozes with adventure.
When Laura discovers that her grandmother has been kidnapped, she and her friends find themselves sucked into an epic tale of their own. With nothing but their wits and a trail of sticky notes, our band of heroes must traverse through one of history's greatest mysteries to find their own way home.
The HMAS is a middle-grade children's novel that I both wrote and illustrated for my final Honours project. Overall, the whole project took three months to complete from early concepts, outlines and planning to a final 'dummy manuscript' formatted and typeset with Scribus. Although it's still very much a first draft, and in need of lots of revision, its near-30K words contribute to the longest piece of creative prose that I have ever written.
The novel consists of 130 pages of original prose and a glossary; three fully rendered illustrations; two maps; two front covers; and various black and white diagrams - all fully formatted into a 6-inchx9-inch manuscript. You can have a look at the full manuscript here!