This piece was made to give a calming, welcoming energy in respect to the Buddhist Gods. I spent 2.5 months making this piece, using a combination of techniques and glazes to produce the final product. I gave it to my mother for her birthday, as she is a figure of strength and warmth in my household, and I felt this sculpture best represented her and her influence on my life. The dimensions are about 9.5x12x10.5 (LxHxW).

My makeup pieces range from original ideas to inspiration from others. I am able to express myself through the creative forms of makeup. This makeup looks process lasted 5 hours. For this look I used the following techniques: shading, blacking out, contouring, highlighting, perfecting, 3-dimensional detailing and more. For shading I would need to layer face paint to create dimension and afterwards lightly brush eyeshadows on top to give a greater depth and add brighter colors. To make my eyes look "bigger" I added white to a portion of my under eye and apply individual eyelashes to give a cartoon effect. To create the stitches, I drew the stitches on a curve to add the effect of them digging into my skin as if they were real. As well as adding white to the high points of the stiches to give it a 3-dimensional look. With additional shading around the stitches and portions of skin being held together by them. I blocked out my neck with black face pain to give the effect of a smaller neck to give it another aspect of a cartoon.

It’s a self portrait of me (Hana) laying in a body of water. There’s a golden butterfly over my eyes.

I love cars and space, so I decided to make my favorite car drive along a rainbow highway.

I don’t know what to write at these moments. Everyone says to write your thought process or inspiration, but there's much more inside my head than I could explain in 250 words. Even if I could say everything I wanted to say, I wouldn’t know how to write it. Fish tend to resonate with me. I was born and raised on the West Coast and I’m half Japanese, so seafood has always been a prominent part of my cultural diet. I also had many pet fish as a kid. Recently, I’ve found myself drawing fish on my class papers or notes with colored pencils and pens. While I normally draw betas, I enjoyed digitally painting overly colored koi. While fish could represent a lot of things in my art, I believe these fish represent my state of mind. Fish are very fluid and they rarely pose a threat, especially not koi. In an ideal world, koi would be free, but they are often put in a small pond for decoration. I look at the colored koi with both curiosity and exhaustion. Maybe we’re both decorations.

This spread is taken from my sketchbook, in which I explore the expressions and anatomy of the human back. As the title suggests, I tend to regularly study different features of the human body to strengthen my understanding of my characters and body types as well. In practicing this, I find creating my stories and lore about my characters to be easier and more free-flowing, with the way their bodies are constructed to help support their background stories and information. Simply sitting down and studying the body doesn't come easy for me - rather, I find myself often drawing at random intervals of the week, with no truly consistent schedule. When I've gathered enough sketches and drawings in the end, I like to compile them together to create a collage of my works. Additionally, I'd add small pieces of my week that were significant, such as in this piece where I included a notecard I had prepared for my upcoming AP US History exam. Putting all of my work together, whether that be art or for school, always gives me a sense of satisfaction and completion.

Inspiration from the Serpentine Pavillion in London.

The idea around it was a vigilante whose power involved art. She is drawing herself in the middle, with the hero’s she knows on the right and villains on the left. The drawing is unfinished though, so you can still see the background and half drawn characters while still seeing what they look like.

I was compelled to create a piece on freedom.

When I conceived this self-portrait early this school year, I was deep in the college application process and attempting to balance a busy student and teenager life.

I call this piece “Blossoming” because it shows a flower opening up which to me also represents blossoming as a teenager and coming in to a full bloom.

In this piece I wanted to showcase my representation of christmas.

I love nature and I’m very inspired by it, so the piece comes from nature and natural themes (flowers and skull) I’m also interested in folklore and magic, so the insertion of the fairy.

I decided to try something new, a new style of drawing that i havent tried before.

My love for the ocean and the environment has always been a huge inspiration for me.

This piece depicts my struggle as an Asian-American finding my voice while being Asian in a western world, and western in an Asian world.

"Academic Pressure" is a captivating work of art that sheds light on the unseen challenges faced by students.

In this artwork I chose to do the ride in Disneyland Paris called Space Mountain.