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The Role
Illustrator & Visual Storyteller
Concept development, hand-illustrated portraiture, collage composition, and 3D print design.
Recognition
🏅 Award-winning project
Adobe Illustrator
The Context
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0.0 Award-winning collage series — full composition
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1.0 Portrait — Pablo Moreno
1.1 Portrait — Abrir F. Cardenes
Every layer, up close.
Explore the individual drawing components that make up the final collages.
From pencil sketches to layered digital illustration.
Each portrait began with reference photography and hand-drawn studies before being rebuilt entirely in Adobe Illustrator using layered vector paths, botanical motifs, and cultural symbols meaningful to each subject.
2.0 Pablo Moreno — introduction spread
2.1 Abrir Cardenes — butterfly motif background
The complete series.
Illustration as an act of remembrance.
This project earned recognition for its cultural depth and technical execution. It reinforced the power of visual storytelling as a tool for honoring community figures — and demonstrated that illustration can carry as much narrative weight as photography or written biography.
Skills Applied