Modern Attitude is a digital illustration published in the 2025 edition of Garland Court Review. Combining pop-surreal elements with contemporary visual culture, the piece explores nostalgia, escapism, and youth culture’s desire to romanticize the past.

An editorial publication examining the lasting influence of early internet culture on contemporary graphic design. The project combines research, writing, editorial layout, typography, and original digital illustrations to celebrate the creative communities that inspired a generation of designers.

Synthetic Sanctuary is a digital space shaped by color, play, and the part of myself that never stopped drawing. What began as loose doodles became a world of bright characters, odd textures, and places to wander through without a destination. It is a small mental oasis: a place to slow down, feel things without explaining them, and let imagination take up as much space as it needs.

Prismatic Universe is a vibrant, dreamlike journey through surreal characters, neon symbolism, and kaleidoscopic emotion. This series fuses fantasy, mythology, and playful abstraction into an electric visual world where creatures, cosmic motifs, and digital textures blend and mutate. Saturated color dominates the palette, layered with glitch-inspired patterns that create a sense of motion and metamorphosis

Prismatic Universe is a vibrant, dreamlike journey through surreal characters, neon symbolism, and kaleidoscopic emotion. This series fuses fantasy, mythology, and playful abstraction into an electric visual world where creatures, cosmic motifs, and digital textures blend and mutate. Saturated color dominates the palette, layered with glitch-inspired patterns that create a sense of motion and metamorphosis

Life in Technicolor is a hybrid poetry and illustration e-book exploring color as a language of identity, resilience, and self-expression. Through symbolic figures and saturated palettes, the work frames color as both refuge and rebellion, situating personal narrative within broader cultural notions of queerness and autonomy.

"Guillermo's Wacky World" is a surreal virtual art exhibition created by Guillermo Hernandez. Hosted within the 3D virtual architecture platform New Art City, the exhibition showcases a vibrant fusion of vector illustrations, 2D animations, and digital graffiti mapped into an interactive browser-based environment. It serves as a personal sub-room and extension of Guillermo's contributions to larger digital showcases, such as the Harold Washington College DMD "Exhale" Exhibition.

Heaven or Hell? is an album cover artwork that reimagines religious duality through a vivid, otherworldly lens. Celestial figures, radiant faces, and winged characters coexist in a candy-colored cosmos where notions of good and evil are staged side by side. Playful forms and bold colors soften the usual divide between virtue and vice, reframing morality as a fluid narrative of choice, symbolism, and interpretation.

Protect Your Peace is a colorful illustrated poster that highlights the importance of rest, joy, and emotional balance. The composition shows a woman relaxing on a beach while music, animals, and ocean imagery create a playful and imaginative setting. Bold outlines and vibrant colors give the piece an energetic, cartoon-like style while reinforcing its uplifting message. Through lighthearted symbolism and a calm seaside scene, the work encourages viewers to slow down, set boundaries, and appreciate moments of personal peace.

Iridescent Reality is a digital collage exploring intersections between nature, technology, and desire. By juxtaposing organic forms with industrial machinery, the composition creates a surreal retro-futurist landscape. The saturated purples and sparkle effects heighten a sense of transcendence and tension between intimacy and spectacle.

Authentically Unreal is a psychedelic celebration of the unexpected, where neon figures and whimsical beings merge into a dreamlike landscape. The work embodies imagination’s refusal to follow singular path and instead, spiraling into something strange, chaotic, and wonderfully unpredictable.