Villainess WebComic // Graphic Novel Mockup
2025
"The Villainess & I Become One" is a personal unreleased project deconstructing the villainess genre that has become very prevalent in media that I have a personal love and respect for it's rich, feminist stories and interesting visual language within the digital social media age. I wanted to try and emulate the same visual language and story-telling of popular Korean manhwas such as "Secret Lady" and "A Stepmother's Marchen" with a queer-forward, phycological look at how it truly would be like to inhabit another body.
In this project I reformatted the long-scroll webcomic into a graphic novel, taking inspiration from how "A Stepmother's Marchen" and other manhwas reformatted their digital comics to print, focusing on keeping the same methodical, almost cinematic pacing of long-scroll comics through letting panels breathe instead focusing on traditional, compact graphic novel composition. Keeping narrative always in mind, I let important panels "breathe" and take up a significant amount of space, just as if the viewer was scrolling through it on their phones in the former original format.
Webtoons and Korean manhwas have a very illustrative charm to their visual language, and I wanted to keep that lyrical flow and avoided harsh graphic lines and focus more on preserving interesting, engaging composition that looks both appealing up close and far away.
For the cover, I experimented with incorporating multiple fonts and focused on the flow of the shapes of the letters, revising and handwriting Adobe fonts "Erotica" and "Dalliance" for clarity as well as painting texture to give it a more elegant, gold look. Villainess stories are about the terrifying nature of elegance and opulence, so the visual language fit within the themes of ruby hues and gold covering up a cracked form underneath, mirroring the imperfections of the main character.
With the simple yet strong composition of a cracked mirror and a more analogous colour story for the cover can lead to future volumes following the same composition with simple tweaks in frame design and colour- all the while looking like it is still a piece of a whole.
Divine Bodies Tarot
2020 - 2025
Divine Bodies is a love letter to my original characters, the stories I spin, the queer community I adore and the female gaze I crave.
Characters featured are from prominent mature webcomics and webnovels such as, "Stupidly Beautiful" and "Daemons" that combined have about a million views overall.
Throughout the process which started as a small project until 2024 when I dedicated a year to production, producing over twenty major arcana cards; I focused on characterizing each tarot card with a similarly aligning original character in flaws, narratives or strengths with a strong colour story and visual motifs. For characters within the same story I gave them similar aesthetics like sun rays, chains or specific flowers, and even had a flowing continuous composition through cards six to nine of the major arcana.
To achieve this, I initially designed and brought to completion a handful of cards of varying themes in colour and shape language, testing what was achievable within my budget and free time, before rough designing the whole deck. Then I assigned specific palettes for each character, some colour stories mimicking the colour of the sky at various days like sunset and sunrise, or going for a more simple one-colour palette.
No character is the same colour, nor has the same pose, but overall throughout the process with my animation experience I worked smart to develop specific visual motifs like singular flowers or star rings that I can copy and paste throughout the whole deck, which also helps keep such a bright and detail-heavy tarot set fitting within the same aesthetic.
Before I started independently selling this deck in Vancouver, BC, I workshopped and went through multiple iterations of cardstock and companies to find a happy medium in quality and affordable price for not only me but my consumers as well. Accessibility is a focus in my art, and for consumers who cannot afford the whole deck can also buy individual cards as good luck charms!
Novel gift Box mockup
2025
A mockup of a personal web novel "Stupidly Beautiful" as if it was a specialty novel gift box containing a physical novel and book-specific stationary and merchandise.
"Stupidly Beautiful" is a queer, polyamorous coming-of-age novel about falling in love with the world and everyone that inhabits it during the summer, and I wanted to really pull from those themes of youth, romanticism and nostalgia, focusing on imperfect-perfect design through the hand-written titles of the novel and zine, as well as folk-inspired visual motifs. Instead of illustrating new art, I pulled from previous illustrations and worked within the constraints of their visual language, mainly borrowing from the dust jacket and folk-inspired postcard.
Star-gazing in a meadow is a very pivotal turning point within the story, so I wanted to focus all my illustrations and design decisions within that meadow during different times of day. Outside the box is at sunset, inside the box and book cover itself is at night, and the book dust jacket is in the day. Simple meadow flowers can be seen on the outside of the box as well as the focal point with the wrapping paper. The starry sky and celestial bodies that the characters gaze upon within the meadow can be seen throughout every item in eight and five-pointed stars, diamonds, suns and moons.
Another pivotal theme within the story is colour symbolism and how each character symbolizes a specific shade, which is subtly shown in the colour of their clothes, their tarot cards as well as overtly explained within the zine provided.
Zine and tarot cards are fully produced and independently sold in Vancouver, BC.
