<p>A wall of fame for a selection of more or less finished creative endeavors that brought me joy while making them.</p>

PERSONAL ART IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

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2025-12 | PAPER AND MATERIAL TEST | UNTITLED – exploring marks and lines while seeing how different tools show up and react on this new paper type; mixed media on sml-art natural toned craft paper 

2025-11 | SKETCHBOOK DOODLE | RISE AND SHINE – work in progress of a drawing as a form of meditation/relaxation; cheap colored pencils and felt tip pens in sketchbook

2025-11 | SKETCHBOOK BINDING | UNTITLED – I like making my own sketchbooks to have more control over the format and paper type, this one is B5; grafia watercolor paper from MAXIMA

2025-09 | ART EXAMINATION | 4 STYLE CHECKS – using the same sketch to try out different materials and work processes to see what looks and feels right, mixed media in sketchbook

2025-07 | PLEIN AIR SKETCH | JŪRMALA – catching the moment by the ocean, artline calligraphy pens and a bic correction pen

2025-06 | REFERENCED VALUE STUDY | PEONY OF CHANGE – reflections on life and creativity while resuming my creative practice, graphite and charcoal in sketchbook

2025-01 | DESIGN | BUSINESS CARDS – I made these in hopes of connecting with people at the Zelta Mikrofons Award Show, but ended up being too shy to hand them out. Drawn in Procreate and put together in Figma and Affinity Designer, printed at CopyPro in Rīga

2025-01 | GRAPHITE SKETCH | BIRD 3 – the third value and rendering study in the series, drawn from photo reference; pencils on printer paper

2024-10 | GRAPHITE SKETCH | BIRD 2 – a second value and rendering study from reference, pencils in sketchbook

2024-08 | GRAPHITE SKETCH | BIRD 1 – a photo study to learn about shading, rendering and seeing value groups, pencils in sketchbook

2023-06 | TRADITIONAL ILLUSTRATION | GATEWAY – this is an A3-sized piece I created primarily with grey copic markers and watercolors to enter the annual COPIC AWARD

2023-04 | PERSONAL ART | UNTITLED – this started as a brush test and I really enjoyed the feeling, process and textures so I got carried away and ended up finishing something; drawn in Procreate

2022-11 | DOMESTIKA COURSE PROJECT | DISTORTED RETROFUTURISM – drawn in Procreate

 2022-10 | PERSONAL ART | NIGHTMARES – created from personal experience, drawn in Procreate

2022-09 | DIGITAL SKETCH | NINE LIVES – thinking about spending as much time as we can with our loved ones, drawn in Procreate

2022-09 | DTIYS CHALLENGE ON INSTAGRAM BY ROSSDRAWS | NIMA – drawn in Procreate

2022-08 | DOMESTIKA COURSE PROJECT | IDEATION 1/5 – this course taught quick methods of coming up with ideas and reusing parts of previous illustrations to quickly draft out concepts, drawn in Procreate

2021-07 | CLASS101 COURSE EXERCISE | UNTITLED – expression sketches with my original characters, drawn in Procreate

2020-03 | SKETCHBOOK DRAWING | MERMAY × ITEMS – doodles to experiment with blending techniques and stylized line art, copic ciao markers on crescent render sketchbook paper

2021-01 | SKETCH | HAPPY BIRTHDAY – a fast warm-up drawing I added to my father's birthday gift, artline chisel tip pen on printer paper

2021-01 | 1 HOUR FIGURE DRAWING CHALLENGE | 35 FIGURES – a fast-paced figure drawing session to measure my observational skills, artline chisel tip pen on printer paper

2019-10 | UNIVERSITY PROJECT | UNTITLED – created at the end of a project week/painting workshop, acrylic paints on paper

2019-05 | UNIVERSITY PROJECT | STORYBOARD PART – created during a fundamental perspective course where the whole class put a storyboard together in the end, drawn in Procreate

2019-05 | UNIVERSITY PROJECT | MONSTER MASH – a free-flowing doodle page created as final project for my character design class; sketched on paper, colored in Procreate

2019-02 | UNIVERSITY PROJECT | INFORMATION FLOOD – created for an exhibition opportunity at the university; gouache, inks, watercolors and aquarelle pencils on 9 canvases