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I JUST FINISHED MY BACHELOR'S PROGRAM AT SHERIDAN ILLUSTRATION!! Check out my thesis projects here, along with all my awesome classmates' work. It's been a tough year.

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thoughts on august

// my youth feels like August.

// the sunsets are especially golden then,

// and I always find myself treasuring them the most.

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Looking back at old photos. This is New York City, summer 2017. Highest point in North America, but I forgot what the building was called and I’m a bit too lazy to search it. One World Trade centre I think? My family took a bus tour across a few states. Found out while on a walk with my parents that my dad really wanted to try a bus tour haha

I like the way the city seems like its transitioning from monochrome to colour. I miss the sun.

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a girlboss and her bunny friend

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My final drawing of Sakura for Le Sserafim’s Dazed Korea July 2022 photoshoot - this photoshoot was everything. currently in the process of making Angel wings for myself. no that’s not a joke.

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☆ ALICIA’S MONTHLY MEDIA MENTIONS: JANUARY `23

Hi. School projects have eaten up all my time and I haven't posted on this account. Also, the beautiful women who have recently followed me have been blowing up my notifications and it's been quite annoying. On the bright side, I have a lot of art to post! Here is all the media I consumed in January!

Visual:

Frances Ha (2012) dir. Noah Baumbach. It tells a beautiful narrative of coming of age in your twenties.

Billie and Jean. Another chill, kinda dumb podcast but it's something fun to play in the background. Gives some good laughs.

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron. Needed something after watching Avatar TWoW.

Mileage (2022) created by Jennifer Wu (PM) Kym Santiana (PM) Ruyee Lu (PM) Christopher Hsueh Joy Zhou Miranda Li Nicole Taylor-Topacio Ruby Saysanasy Saul Benavides. My friend made a really awesome short film for her 3rd year! Please check it out. The music suits it so well and the story is very exciting!

Cruella (2021) dir. Craig Gillespie. I wasn't going to watch this but Josiah mentioned the same person directed I, Tonya (2017) which I thought was great. I watched with a dog that I was dogsitting.

Goodfellas (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese. A pretty good story. I think the acting in it was great as well. The slurs threw me SO off guard.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) dir. Joel Crawford. I'm so excited for Shrek 5. This was great. Love how Spiderverse is bringing about a new age of animation.

The White Lotus, Season 1 (2021). I'm only watching this for Jennifer Coolidge.

Emergency Intercom - Enya Umanzor, Drew Phillips, Ky Newman. It's an every-month thing.

TXT Live at Lollapalooza 2022 (Full Performance) - Tomorrow x Together. Just very upset that they announced tour dates and Toronto wasn't on there.

Fall (2022) dir. Scott Mann. Why would they do that?

The Menu (2022) dir. Mark Mylod. Nice.

Audio: January 2023 Spotify Playlist

Space 1.8 - Nana Sinephro. Love this album SO MUCH.

Animation Happy Hour - Garrett Lewis, Katie Low, Ben Girmann. I'm excited to have found this podcast! I feel like it'll be a good resource in helping me with my future endeavours.

The Whole of the Moon (Fiona Apple cover) - Fiona Apple. Mother. Inspiration.

ATTENTION: MILEY LIVE - I'm so happy for Miley's success and I'm very sorry I was part of the crowd that shunned her post-Disney era. She's an amazing artist and I could listen to her sing rock songs all day.

Time is Way Weirder Than You Think - The Ezra Klein Show. A podcast episode we listened to for class. Confusing and it raised more questions.

Ditto - New Jeans. The girls have done it again.

Don’t Forget My Love - Acoustic - Diplo, Miguel. Fuck the original. This is it.

VIBE (feat. Jimin of BTS) - TAEYANG. Taeyang is so funny. Whenever I think of him I think of that video where he sings thank you and I love you for 2 mins.

Reading:

Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones. After watching the Ghibli film, I wanted MORE.

Sketching for Animation - Peter Parr. A book I have downloaded and have seen the first few pages of. I have yet to really get into it but it also seems like a great resource to improve my art.

Gesture Drawing for Animation - Walt Stanchfield 

What They Don't Teach You at Film School: 161 Strategies For Making Your Own Movies No Matter What - Camille Landau, Tiara White

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The line art of Bunny Run and a cool colour scheme I got while messing around with filters

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full illustration of the scene from Minari (2020) for Depth Cues, Issue 3 - Bloom.

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Last of the film studies from The Rider (2017) ft a white horse during blue hour

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if anyone would like a general guide to the ripening process of raspberries I gotchu <3

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I present to you… Selene the titan goddess of the moon for my Prosecco wine label 🌙🍷

Made this moving image in procreate and Adobe after effects! Added some music on iMovie and it turned out pretty cool :3

Please turn your volume on! I think the music suits this theme very well :)

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my first pixel art piece! this one is of a tree in my local park. It was pretty fun and calming to make, so I’m planning on making a series of pixel art inspired by my summer adventures - stay tuned :3

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Mirrors on the ceiling The pink champagne on ice And she said, 'We are all just prisoners here" "Of our own device"

my love. a metaphor assignment inspired by the song Hotel California, which I interpreted as hedonism and overindulgence.

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did the sketch for this while coming back home from school on the train. I really loved the colours I used, and how I kept it at a limited colour palette. also, some songs I was listening to near the beginning of October

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negative space

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I went to High Park during cherry blossom season and saw the absolute cutest sight - a little girl wearing the Lirika Matoshi strawberry dress walking her cat on a leash. You’ve got to be kidding me. She was straight out of an anime. (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)