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Digital Illustration
#CrisisCreativity
I have been involved with Field Innovation Team (FIT) for the past five years and was excited to bring together my artistic skills and disaster communications work with our current FIT challenge, COVID-19 Project SUZ. You can read about FIT here but, in a nutshell, it brings together innovators from all walks of life to ideate solutions for issues arising from disasters.

I have never liked to be pigeon-holed into one career or field and always try to apply skills and ideas from previous endeavours into what I'm doing in the present. One of our challenges for Project SUZ was to either pick up a new skill or try to foster and improve upon a current skill. The goal was to make a video about it but video is not my forte, so I decided to do an illustration series, instead. Because this is being done in tandem with a #100DayChallenge, in which I am producing a drawing every day for 100 days, you will see some of these drawings in other galleries here. For example, the poison control memes are also part of a series of vintage illustrations and the Timmy the Tabby drawings are a separate exploration of character development. As of this writing, I am on Day 20 of the challenge, so you can expect more Crisis Creativity drawings at some point, going forward.
Three female military personnel with planes on the tarmac
Flat illustration of firefighter with shovel and trees in background.
Flat illustration of Jaz's Zoom Call
Illustration of Disaster Drinks Zoom call, 1 May 2020
COVID19 safety illustration - This little piggy stayed home and so should you.

Timmy the Tabby
I had originally set out to do a series of drawings of The Real VOST Cat and somehow ended up with Timmy. Since the series is Timmy & Friends, Chaco and Wally may still make an appearance.
Drawing of a blesbok
Illustration of an aardvark
Drawing of an aardvark
Timmy the Tabby's ancestor, Tobias the Tabby.
Timmy the Tabby Tarot Card - The Fool
"Pencil" Drawings
I put "pencil" in quotes because these were still done on an iPad Pro. I used Procreate and an Apple Pencil and they are usually a combination of an HB, a 6B, and soft pastel.
Portrait of my friend Ada for her birthday
Pencil portrait of a sled dog
Portrait of Oskar Werner
Portrait of woman, using a Sketchy reference photo
Portrait of my father-in-law's golden retriever
Portrait of my friend Cheryl for her birthday
Portrait of my friend Mike for his birthday
Pencil self portrait with horns added
Pencil portrait of my late high school French teacher
Pencil portrait of my late father
Pencil portrait of a man with a cigar
Pencil rendering of a cat face
Pencil rendering of a scene from Melville's Moby Dick
Pencil portrait of a vintage (midcentury?) soldier with a coffee cup
Pencil drawing of a caracal
Pencil portrait of Michael McFaul
Portrait drawing from a face on #sketchy
Pencil portrait of Marie Yovanovich
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