This is still a very rough work in progress shot. I still have to finish up the background & cut out the girl but its come a long way. Ill be uploading a final version soon.

"The clock strikes 12. you have to hurry before everything changes, what do you leave behind?"
My regrets.

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales"

 - Albert Einstein

A lot of fairy tales pose a problem at the core of their plots, which requires the reader to use problem solving to infer what happens next. This helps prepare them for real world issues by giving them something to relate them to.  The issue Im planning to incorporate into my piece is gendered social expectations. In the original tale of Cinderella, 'the step sisters were symbols of desperation, the shoe didnt fit so one cut off her toe, and one cut off her heel. How many children who read this grew into adults with bleeding feet, who mutilated themselves for the satisfaction of a king?'
( inspiration taken from "An Open letter from the Brothers Grimm to Walt Disney" by Khary Jackson )
Our society puts men in a place of power & women below that. This unfair balance creates a need for women to prove themselves & strive for the 'satisfaction of a king', in many cases they are forced to put other people before themselves.

Happy Valentines Day! 

For this project I just took my favorite animal inspiration & added cute puns & tada! adorable valentines cards!

The first pic was the paint outline of a question mark thing I used for a photography assignment which turned out looking cooler than the actual question mark. The second one was a product of me remembering that 'man i really missed painting'. so Tada! some abstract stuff from yours truely 

So this is for Illustration Friday's prompt: Nefarious. I decided to do a fuming sort of canine creature after being inspired by another artists work. It turned out pretty good, I'd like to do more with the background but again I was running short on time. But I hope yall like it

This piece was prompted by IllustrationFridays suggestion of "Invention". Since I was short on time this was a little thrown together but I think it was effective. Its dedicated to the struggle every creative person goes through, whether it be lacking ideas for an art project or trying to come up with an invention. The feeling this piece portrays is universal.