My general inspiration is a culmination of what I have done before as well as styles I have experimented with in the past. I look back on a lot of my old work to either spin off that general concept or further refine something along those lines. When I am in newer territory and have a hard time getting inspiration for a piece, whatever it may be, I tend to go on to deviant art, cg society or concept art websites and it usually gets my gears turning.

The school I am attending currently, The Art Institute of Philadelphia, constantly sends out e-mails alerting students to opportunities such as the contest that LTL Prints was holding. I have this new found desire to try out new things and grasp opportunities when they arise so I was very much interested in entering this contest and I am glad that I did. I was impressed with the material that the prints are done on and how
versatile it is. I am terrible with stickers, much less 5 ft long stickers, and the fact that it could stick to itself and not be completely ruined made me very happy as I did just that a dozen times before I got it on the wall.

I haven’t worked too much with larger media, so i was interested to see how the design would turn out. I worked at a screenprinting company prior to moving to Philadelphia so I had a good understanding of cartoony, gradient-based sea creatures, which I illustrated the most for some reason, so I figured I would just retouch on some of that whole idea.