Garland Court Review

Featured in the Garland Court Review, an independent literary and arts magazine showcasing creative work across writing and visual media at Harold Washington College. In 2025, my work became part of a wider creative community. After graduation, I was selected as the cover artist, with Life in Technicolor on the 2026 edition, setting the tone for the issue and serving as its visual introduction. Together, these milestones reflect the continued growth of my digital illustration practice, centered on building a distinct visual voice and creating work that resonates across both personal and editorial spaces.

Life In Technicolor (Cover)

Selected as the official cover for the Garland Court Review 2026, this piece explores the intersection of nostalgia and contemporary digital aesthetics. Drawing from the visual language of early internet design, I used luminous gradients, surreal portraiture, and layered textures to create a vibrant, immersive composition. The work reflects my interest in identity, visibility, and expressive color as a form of visual storytelling.

Digital Escape (Video)

Through rhythmic editing and abstract sequencing, Digital Escape evokes a sense of disorientation that mirrors the experience of navigating digital spaces. Moments of clarity emerge and dissolve, suggesting both refuge and entrapment within technology. The artist (Guillermo) uses this visual language to examine identity, perception, and overstimulation, inviting viewers to confront their own relationship with technology and the environments they inhabit.

Save the Ocean

This piece uses a vivid, graphic style to communicate a message of environmental awareness. Centered around a stylized mermaid figure, the composition pairs bright, engaging visuals with an underlying call to protect marine ecosystems. The work balances playfulness and urgency, aiming to make complex issues more accessible through illustration.

Glamour Zombie

Glamour Zombie is a character-driven illustration that contrasts themes of beauty and decay through a bold, stylized approach. Combining intricate linework with saturated color, the piece examines how visual appeal and unease can coexist within a single figure. It reflects an ongoing exploration of transformation, identity, and the aesthetics of the unconventional.

Modern Attitude

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.

Life In Technicolor

Life In Technicolor 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.

Heaven or Hell?

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.