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Hi my name is Jessicalina Tongono and I am a senior in the Visual Art and Design Program at Butler Tech School of the Arts. This is my senior portfolio, this a collection of all my artwork in the past school year here at BTSOA.
A piece I’d love to talk about in this portfolio is this work titled “Coffee Shop Days”. This piece is a short comic of two original characters named Dev and Stinx, they work in a coffee/flower shop and it is implied that they used to date. I would like to dive deeper in story telling with my art, I love writing comics and it’s something I would love to do more of in the future. I want to learn more about formatting panels and writing in my art.
While making this piece I struggle with figuring out how I wanted my piece to look like. When I sketched out the idea, I only had an idea for two panels and no three. The top one was a panel that I decided to add in as I made it, I wanted to show the scenery and where they were. It’s hard for me to do backgrounds and scenes and I hope I will learn more on how to do them in college. I am proud of how it all came together, I really liked adding in the dialogue. The dialogue makes you really learn how the characters personalities are without knowing everything about the character.
I loved comics since I was a kid, my parents always let me indulge in different types of media and it helped me be the creative I am today. Since I was 5 I remembered owning Sailor Moon comics and watching shows like Naruto and Dragon Ball, at the time it was really weird and I used to get bullied for it but now anime culture is thriving and I am so happy to see it! I have always been encouraged to express my art and considering the media I always consumed it was inevitable that this would be my career choice.
If I did this again I would approach the media differently by doing it digitally. I love drawing on my tablet because it had been years since I was able to draw digitally and now I can’t get enough of it. I want to make a web comic in the future so this would be great practice!

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Marker, colored pencil, ink,

This piece was an independent work. It is supposed to symbolize African american women and how tired we are of feeling like we will never fit the Euro-centric beauty standards. The shapes symbolize fitting into these outrageous standards and how it can tear ourselves apart.

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marker, ink

This piece symbolizes freedom. being able to be your own person and be free in the world.

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graphite, white gel pen

This was a class assignment to draw certain people's eyes realistically. It was my eye, my men-tee's eye, my classmates eye, the eye of someone from another major, staff member's eye, and my best friend's eye.

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colored pencil, marker, ink

This was a class assignment to work on a piece relating to the Day of the Dead.

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digital media

This was one of my first digital media independents. This was my personal personified version of the Goddess of Spring, Persephone.

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digital photography

This was a part of a photography assignment. I showed Pattern and symmetry in this photo.

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digital photography

A part of a class photography assignment. I decided to show a bible verse to show Hope and Positivity.

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digital media

This was a digital independent I did. It is just a random girl in a random room. I was working on backgrounds and settings here.

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digital media

This is a digital piece I worked on of an OC of mine. The goal was to make this look like it was a screen cap of a cartoon.

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marker, ink, colored pencil

This was an independent comic i did in class. It was of my superhero OC, Vybz. This was to show the responsibility of being both a superhero and a regular high school studentt.

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colored pencil,, marker, ink, watercolor

This was an independent assignment. I drew a group of OCs me and a friend made up. I just really liked the different character designs we have of them and wanted to draw them all together.

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maker, colored pencil, ink

This was another piece with some of my OCs. They are dancers who are friends. I was practicing with drawing settings.

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water color, colored pencil, ink, marker

This was a short comic of my OCs who work in a coffee shop/flower shop. It was supposed to show the relationship between the two.