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Hi, I’m Steph! I’m an urban sketcher on the weekends, a data engineer by day, and a clumsy Japanese-English translator in the meantime. 宜しくお願いします〜


Illustrations

Cosmo’s cosmos

A pet portrait painted in jelly gouache on a drink board for a friend’s wedding.

Chickadee in a cherry tree

For my future mother-in-law’s birthday this year, I wanted to give her a memento that would suit the colors of…

Half-dome

An ink illustration of Yosemite’s Half-Dome, completed for my sister on her birthday. I’m having lots of fun with grayscale…

Chocolate lab

Painted in gouache, for a Christmas card for a pet owner.

Blue hydrangeas

This started as a small sketch to test out Copic alcohol markers. But they were so fun to use that…

Blue flag irises

Illustrated for my mom’s birthday years ago, based on a photo of blue flag irises from a neighbor’s yard. Lines…

Tree-lined country road

One of my first plein-air paintings, in pallet watercolors on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper. A windy day made this on-site…

Daffodils and ladybug

Lines are sumi (charcoal) ink, applied with a dip pen on Bristol board. Colors are Copic alcohol markers. Illustrated for…

D.Gray-man page redraw

A redraw of page 27 of the first volume of the manga series D.Gray-man, which I completed as part of…

Tree-lined rural road

Medium: Watercolors on Arches hot-press watercolor paper This piece was painted “en plain air,” meaning that I packed up my…

Sunflower bouquet

Medium: sumi ink (charcoal based) on Leuchtturm sketchbook paper A relaxing illustration based on a bouquet I bought a friend…

Blue flag irises on yellow and gold

Medium: sumi ink (charcoal based) lines with Copic alcohol-based marker colors on Bristol board One of the houses on my…