Dean Zhu

Customer provided the original character illustration, which I rendered and vectorized for print.

This was a fairly open design prompt, so I used Hero Forge to draft a zombie character and pose reference for this design.

Since nobody asks for this style of calligraffiti on shirt orders, (mostly because most customers know what it is) I took the opportunity to practice.

Designs for this event are often parodies / tributes to existing properties, such as How to Train Your Dragon, Blink-182, and Grillo's Pickles

Placement of council service mark and slogan have both been subject to changes based on changes to Girl Scouts™ licensing requirements. For example, service mark moved to sleeve, or "Camp like a girl" changed to "Camp like Girl Scouts™"

The customer asked me for vector copies of this logo so it could be used on the rest of the accompanying promotional suite.

Using neon and sunset themes integrated into the YL logo.

I've included both the entry with the required purples and one with a red-centric palette, which I think works better on this background.

Grill Turtle as a mostly-original concept. The original draft had the grill as the turtle's shell, with a top lid component.

Reference photo provided by customer.

Fully Sublimated Jersey designs for Adequate E-Sports, in Fire and Ice themes

Graffiti and other tags are layered over extant work as a way to show age. By weathering lower layers, with newer, “fresher” layers on top, I could add to the history of the scene. For example, I took a stiff stippling brush and wore away sections of the green background from the Robin Hood mural.

In this case, I wanted to use a “Massive minion, smaller superior” kind of relationship to  highlight the imbalance in power in this situation.

Soloist takes her paint to a mural of a snake, a symbol of the gang’s influence in her area. Overwriting it with her own mark, she declares, “You have no power here.”

The aftermath of a night of furious tagging. Soloist’s 单 mark uses some simple forced perspective, overlapping the windows and fire escape.

Alongside nods to the FHK protests of 2019, graffiti on this piece references the Berlin Wall–particularly the segment kept at the GHW Bush presidential library.

Each mini is 25-30mm tall. Minis are sculpted using steel wire, ”Green stuff” epoxy, Sculpey Firm and/or FIMO Professional polyclay. Painted with acrylics.