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2025 monkey

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Pencil Portrait Sketch

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Hello Kitty

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Sketchbook

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2025 sketch

2022 or 2023 sketch

African Girl

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Circus Girl Study

Sketchbook 2

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Other Work

Jewelry

Content warning: some images contain nudity from life drawing studies.Multi-page catalogue design for a fictional solo exhibition at a Toronto art gallery. The project explores editorial layout, typography, and image sequencing across interior spreads, with a focus on cohesive structure and visual hierarchy.Academic project, Seneca College. 2017.

Unframed - Exhibition Catalogue - Seneca College, 2017

Graphic Design

Branding kit and logo design for a matchmaking app prototype offering safe, platonic companionship for appointments, workouts, and other everyday events. The platform aims to reduce loneliness and increase belonging. Within a collaborative setting, I developed the logo design, typography and colour choices with the intention of creating a modern, friendly and approachable visual identity.Group project, F.U.N. Program at Prepr. 2026.

Plus One Branding - Prepr, 2026

Bass Guitarist Character Design

Sculpture

Hosomaki Sushi Recipe - Seneca College, 2017

Illustration and packaging design concept for a fictional pure rice shochū brand. An ink dragon illustration drawn in Photoshop anchors the bottle design. The project includes bottle mockups, a promotional image, alternative label concepts, reference material, and process sketches.Academic project, Seneca College. 2019.

Kokuryū Shochū Bottle Design - Seneca College, 2019

A redesign of the book The Fathers Are Coming Home, focusing on cover design, typography, and composition. The front and back covers explore clean, minimal vector-style illustration. For this project, I combined hand-lettering and typography while experimenting with colour. Academic project. 2025.

Children’s Book Cover - Seneca College, 2017

Poster illustration concept developed for a fictional TIFF Kids film festival. The final poster is drawn in pencil crayon and edited in Photoshop. Shown here are the final poster, colour roughs in both pencil crayon and Photoshop, early character and theme explorations, typography studies, and compositional sketches.The final direction features an underground fantasy scene, with alternative explorations ranging a space-based theme to more animal-led concepts.Academic project, Seneca College. 2019.

TIFF Kids Poster Design - Seneca College, 2019

Visual Development

Illustration

Storyboarding

Studies &amp; Experiments (2018-present)

Studies & Experiments

A series of posters experimenting with typography, layout, and conveying the emotional energy of the lyrics of 0 (Zero) by Ado in a minimal and abstract way. Each poster is designed in Canva and features Japanese lyrics paired with English translations. While the backgrounds are pre-made graphics, they were carefully selected, positioned, scaled, and oriented to complement the layout of the lyrics and their emotional flow and energy. Poster 1:Lyrics: “searching for where this heart points… only my prayer still rings true.”A red-to-purple-to-blue gradient subtly echoes the emotional shifts and flow of the lyrics.Poster 2:Lyrics: “constantly re-examining the way I live”A soft orange circular gradient highlights focus and introspection, complementing the lyrical theme with minimal, centered placement.Poster 3:Lyrics: “it’s hard to pour my heart out / the margin’s too narrow to contain it”A diagonal wavy gradient of pink, blue, and aquamarine mirrors the energy of the lyrics, capturing the movement and tension of an overflowing heart in a minimal, abstract way.Personal project. 2025.

Lyric Posters - Personal Project, 2025

Motorcycle Grandma Character Design

jekkalin's portfolio

illustrator &amp; graphic designer based in toronto

A series of posters experimenting with typography, layout, colour, and conveying the emotional energy of the lyrics of 0 (Zero) by Ado in a minimal and abstract manner. Each poster is designed in Canva from scratch and features Japanese lyrics paired with English translations. While the backgrounds are pre-made graphics, they were carefully selected, positioned, scaled, and oriented to complement the layout of the lyrics and their emotional flow and energy.Personal project. 2025.

Character design project for the bass guitarist of a band. I had a lot of fun with this project, playing with proportion, shape, and exaggeration, and how different shapes interacted with each other to create a distinctive character.A lot of thought was put into researching and capturing common personality traits associated with bass guitarists: rigid and somewhat imposing, yet laid-back and chill. I then translated these qualities into the character’s design, using hair and clothing as the primary elements of the character’s overall silhouette. I also wanted the character to be somewhat unique and unconventional, with their look inspired by the “jellyfish” haircut and vintage clothing.Shown here is the final rough character design and story poses done in Photoshop, as well as pencil sketches exploring different styles, silhouettes, hairstyles, clothing, facial features, and shapes. The final direction is a more stylized version of the initial sketch, located on the second page of roughs.Academic project, Seneca Polytechnic. 2024.

A redesign of the book The Fathers Are Coming Home, focusing on cover design, typography, and composition. The front and back covers explore clean, minimal vector-style illustration. For this project, I combined hand-lettering and typography while experimenting with colour.Academic project, Seneca College. 2017.

Poster illustration concept developed for a fictional TIFF Kids film festival. The final poster is drawn in pencil crayon and edited in Photoshop. Shown here are the final poster, colour roughs in both pencil crayon and Photoshop, early character and theme explorations, typography studies, and compositional sketches.The final direction features an underground fantasy scene, with alternative explorations ranging from a space-based theme to more animal-led concepts.Academic project, Seneca College. 2019.

A mixed media tableau depicting two original characters—a forest spirit and a young girl—in a woodland setting.Both figures were sculpted in polymer clay over wire and aluminum foil. The tree was carved from foam to create bark-like texture, and all elements were hand-painted with acrylic paint. A spray technique was used on the forest spirit to introduce colour variation across its leaves.The forest floor was created from a carved foam base and incorporates natural materials such as dried moss and twigs. Shown here are the final tableau and sculptures, pencil sketches exploring characters, narratives, styles, plants, and scenery, and a selection of sculpture process photos.Academic Project, Seneca College. 2019.

A collection of observational studies, sketches, and personal experiments exploring style, line quality, emotional tone, composition, lettering, shape, proportion, and texture. 2018 to present.

Branding kit and logo design for a matchmaking app prototype offering safe, platonic companionship for appointments, workouts, and other everyday events. The platform aims to reduce loneliness and increase belonging. Within a collaborative setting, I developed the logo design, typography and colour choices with the intention of creating a modern, friendly and approachable visual identity.Group project, F.U.N. Program at Prepr. 2026.

Ko-Fi?! <a href="https://ko-fi.com/kikalamika" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">--&gt; here!!</a>

A selection of storyboarding exercises from Seneca’s Animation program, exploring composition, framing, camera shots, and visual storytelling.

<blockquote>"Constantly re-examining the way I live"</blockquote>A soft orange circular gradient conveys quiet focus and introspection.

I'm an illustrator working across different styles and mediums, including graphic design, children's book illustration, and handmade work. My practice focuses on exploration and the emotional tone created through composition, arrangement and form. This website is a growing archive of that work.

I'm an illustrator that can create works in different illustration styles, ranging from realism to children's book illustration. Sometimes I do graphic design stuff!

I'm an illustrator working across different styles and mediums, including children's book illustration, graphic design and handmade work. My practice focuses on exploration and the emotional tone created through composition, arrangement and form. This website is a growing archive of that work.

I'm an illustrator who works across different styles and mediums, from realism and children's book illustration to graphic design and handmade pieces. This is a growing archive of my work.

A selection of finished illustrations in various mediums and styles. Includes personal projects, school assignments, and designs created for prints and stickers.Click each image for more details.

Instagram?! <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kika.la.mika/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">--&gt; here!!</a>

Academic project in which we were instructed to design an elderly character and a vehicle.Shown are the cleaned up final character and vehicle designs as well as rough turnarounds both done in Procreate, and pencil sketches exploring different shapes and conveying different personalities.Academic project, Seneca Polytechnic. 2025.

Motorcycle Grandma Character Design

<blockquote>"It's hard to pour my heart out / The margin's too narrow to contain it"</blockquote>A diagonal wavy gradient of pink, blue, and aquamarine mirrors the energy of the lyrics, capturing the movement and tension of an overflowing heart in a minimal, abstract way.

Art and fashion business with my sister?!

An illustrated recipe layout design for making hosomaki sushi. Includes ingredient lists, materials, and step-by-step instructions. This project combines illustration, typography, and layout.Academic project. Seneca College, 2017.

A collection of handmade earrings designed and crafted by me. Each piece experiments with mixed materials, gemstones, and different forms and proportions, with some ear hooks custom-shaped by hand. I explored colour, pattern, size proportion, and material combinations.2024.

Art business with my sister?! <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kikaandkuki/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">--&gt; here!!</a>

Content warning: some images contain nudity from life drawing studies.Multi-page catalogue design for a fictional solo exhibition at a Toronto art gallery. The project explores editorial layout, typography, and image sequencing across interior spreads, with a focus on cohesive structure and visual hierarchy. Academic project, Seneca College. 2017.

<blockquote>"Searching for where this heart points […] only my prayer still rings true.”</blockquote>A red-to-purple-to-blue gradient subtly echoes the emotional shifts and flow of the lyrics.