SQUIRE is my love letter to fantasy, in a setting I grew up in. Aiza climbs through the ranks to Knighthood, all while keeping her identity secret, in this YA fantasy graphic novel set in an alternate history Middle East. #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth ⚔️ https://t.co/80irnTgbcY
One of my favorite pages I drew in SQUIRE. Nothing like very menacing tea-brewing.
Any day I can paint cute girls with big hair is a good day for me 😌 Here are some insights into the process for how we reached the final! First rough sketches just to start sending us in a direction. Marketing team was torn between a portrait, and more ambitious full body pose.
They really enjoyed the standing pose with the city, so now it was time to find a direction with the title design and the pose! 3 poses x 3 title designs = 9 possible covers!
my artistic process lately
A quick refresher I did with my art team at @play_multiverse to practice how to understand your references, and use them meaningfully and in a way that keeps the energy in your sketches! our team does weekly foundation sessions together just to keep our brain juices going
No one did it like Bill Watterson
check ins
Me: please send me updates of my cat My lil bro: ok
Left: it's 2014, I'm a high schooler. I got my signed copy of the Legend of Korra art book when I met one of the co-creators. Told him I became an artist because of the Avatar series. Right: 2021. I get to share that I co-created an official Avatar story for Free Comic Book Day.
One of those days
you best believe it is the #sameartist