Otherworldly Animals

A digital artwork featuring a blue seahorse illustration surrounded by holographic triangle shapes on a dark, starry background.

Discofish

17”×17” ★ Acrylic Paint, Broken CDs, Adobe Photoshop

This is an acrylic painting of a fish that I made! I cut up CDs and glued them to the canvas, then took a photo of the canvas, popped it into photoshop, and edited the glitchy distortions.

A watercolor painting of a giraffe in space with a starry sky, planets, and cosmic colors in the background.

Giraffe in Outer Space

8.5”×11” ★ Colored Pencil

A pencil drawing of a hopping kangaroo with a baby joey in its pouch, landscape with trees, and a circular shape in the background.

Monkey Underwater

8.5”×11” ★ Graphite

I tend to take creative inspiration from nature. For a while, I got really into drawing living subjects, but found myself gravitating towards animals more than people.

After a while, I got bored of always drawing the same backgrounds over and over. I love the mountains, the trees, and the clouds, but I initially felt restricted by my animalistic subject matter to never venture beyond their natural realm. It wasn’t until my friend made a casual suggestion that my eyes were opened to surrealism. When I asked her for ideas about what to draw, she said, “You should draw a monkey underwater wearing a space helmet!” And so I did. I fell in love with seeing the intuitive functioning of an animal juxtaposed against a surreal or incomprehensible setting. It felt very naturally unnatural. I’ve considered myself a surrealist artist ever since!

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