Hello and welcome to the hand page! This is essentially my portfolio displaying some of my more recent illustration work. I love to experiment with style, medium and techniques so If you'd like to see any more of specific types of my work or discuss any of it with me, please email me at vakilnuria@gmail.com or through one of my social media accounts listed on the heart page.
A comic I created for a personal short comics anthology during my Illustration BA. An exploration of my mental state at the time.
A personal comic made for practice and experimentation.
Extract of a comic adaptation of du Maurier's 'The Blue Lenses' I made during my Children's Book Illustration and Graphic Novels MA.
Another comic from my BA comics anthology project. This one was the only one drawn traditionally and coloured digitally, the others were entirely digitally drawn.
The first page of a comic submitted to a competition as part of my BA. It didn't win but is personal and still means a lot to me.
A poster I made as tribute for a twitch streamer and the community he has created that I am part of, inspired by inside jokes and old sci-fi film posters.
Again a comic from my BA comics anthology, this one more purposefully abstract and focused on grief.
An extract from a comic I made for a competition during my Illustration BA.
A second extract of the blue lenses comic I made for my MA which was drawn in A6 size with fineliner.
Drafts of a figure comissioned for a scientific presentation and included in a published scientific article
A final example of one of the comics I made for my BA comics anthology, I had a lot of fun with limited colour palletes and layouts with these. I wanted to test how expressive I could be while still trying to give an impression of an experience and/or emotion.
A piece of fanart of two wrestlers I like, I am proud of the atmosphere my use of colour created here. Drawing fanart can allow a lot of self expression as well as comfort and I like to play with that.
Fanart of El Desperado and his rival Hiromu Takahashi. I like to use fanart to explore new styles and techniques and this one was inspired by their use of flowers in matches and storytelling as well as Hiromu's colourful ring gear.
Another experimental piece of fanart, this time of the horror game 'Darkwood'. For this one I tried to translate my more detailed traditional art style to my digital work as inspired by the games textured artwork.
A drawing based on a photograph I took of wrestlers Spike Trivet and Kid Lykos during their recent cage match. I enjoyed playing with their animal inspired monikers of 'vulture' and 'wolf'.
More game fanart, this time of Olivia and Abella from 'Fear and Hunger: Termina', another horror game. This style was more inspired by 1900's/200's colourful web and video game aesthetics.
The style I used for this piece of animorphs fanart wasn't really inspired by anything in particular but the layout draws from sci-fi posters as much as it draws from the iconic style of the original book covers.
My earliest complete drawing of El Desperado and one of my personal favourites. The stained glass imagery was both inspired by El Desperado's various masks and a comment he made comparing his broken jaw (and the recovery he had to undergo because of it) to 'kintsugi' - the practice of fixing broken ceramics with gold. It really resonated with my personal experience with chronic pain, disability and internalised ableism.