A Conversation with ChatGPT - Dec 2023
A Conversation with ChatGPT was made to examine the question ‘Why won’t AI take your job?’
As a Freelance Illustrator by day, the rise of AI art has been an interesting time to examine what I bring to the industry. Whilst there are many disadvantages to AI art, I wanted to focus on something I find particularly important; Intent, and to a further extent, purpose. This comic uses a real conversation I had with ChatGPT to focus on the importance of intent and purpose within art and illustration, and the uncertainty surrounding creative careers at the moment. In all honesty, I do believe jobs will be lost to AI, there will always be companies and people that care more about cost and time-efficiency over good art, but that’s up to them. I believe in human thought, passion, and the fingerprint an artist leaves on a page.
Dog Comic - Dec 2020
The Dog comic depicts the feeling of apprehension, of the unknown on a late night. The work embraces text and minimal colour to tell a story of a character letting her dog out in the middle of the night, only for a monster to have taken its place when she goes to let him back in.
Roma - Feb 2021
Written by Deborah Levy, Roma is a story of love and betrayal, where the protagonist has drifted from her husband, and dreams of him with his new lover in Italy, the distance between the couple only growing when they go on holiday themselves, and the protagonist compares their relationship to the one she’s been dreaming of.
Made for a Wordless Narrative unit at University, it was important to me to convey the emotional unease the main character is facing in Roma, knowing her husband will leave her.
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - Sep 2020
The Penguin Book of Japanese Stories, edited by Jay Rubin, contains 35 short stories from both classic and modern authors. For this project, I illustrated full page illustrations for The Smile of a Mountain Witch by Ohba Minako, Pink by Tomoyuki Hoshino, and Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, as well as a Cover illustration inspired by the story Cambridge Circus by Shibata Motoyuki. I worked with a limited colour palette and odd imagery to convey the eerieness from the short stories.
I Drew This to Talk About the Woods Near my House - April 2019
Made for my final project in first year, I Drew This to Talk About the Woods Near my House was an exploration into long-term mental health struggles during Covid, and ways of coping, as well as a look at the memories a place can hold.
This Project was my first time combining Illustration and text in this way, which then became an integral part of my work flow and imagery.
