Roostin

Something I love about Roosters is that they seem to have endless confidence for no reason in particular. They always seem to

Demo Reel

In this real I wanted to show my love for several things. Motion/Title Design and the work I’ve gotten to do regarding S

SF Elections “I Voted” Sticker

This is a mock up for an “I Voted” Sticker contest hosted by San Francisco Elections. Really enjoyed playing with

Meditation training for People in Prison

During a period of time I had no intention of doing any work I was contacted to create something too close to my passions to r

3rd Art Residency Nairobi, Kenya

I spent roughly 2 months living in Kenya. To make writing about this more manageable I’ll split it into 2 parts. I’

Pechakucha Talk: Aligning Art with Purpose

I was asked to give a Pechakutcha Talk during my Karen Village Art Residency in Nairobi, Kenya. You can read more about my exp

Wild Drishti 1 Maasai Mara, Nairobi, Mombasa

“Wild Drishti 1: Maasai Mara, Nairobi Mombasa” An extended color version of this will come one day. Who knows when

2 Weeks of Autumn in New York

About a month ago I spent my last 2 weeks in the US visiting New York. Originally I planned to go for the F5 Fest motion graph

12 Hours in Egypt and 24 hours of struggle.

So I’m going to briefly skip my most recent US city to cut to the absolute dumpster fire that came with my leaving the c

DC Skate Summer

Spent a little over a month in DC. I absolutely love this city. Free museums, great skate scene, Jazz scene, walkable with pub

Eastbound Train to Houston

Here’s a video of my train and 2 week Houston experience. I considered using some Houston Rap for this reel but decide t

Prelude to “The Grand Adventure”

The first posting of my traveling artist journal. I’ve not really done the blog thing before, so this will be largely ex

PSTA Diversity Drives Us Bus Competition

Its hard to describe the feeling of seeing this. I’m still processing the fact my art piece “Routes to Revolution

2022 NorCal EMMY® AWARDS: 2nd, 3rd, and 4th wins!

Of my 7 nominations I was awarded 3 Regional Emmy® Awards this weekend! Super excited! For a number of imposter syndrome rela

2nd Art Residency Branson, MO

In April I blindly applied for an art Residency with the Art Gallery that represents me in Arkansas: Art Ventures NWA. This wa

Art Ventures and Theatre Squared Partner for Art Showcase

My Freedom series was prominently on display at Theatre Squared in Fayetteville Arkansas. Below is a news report and an articl

Desert Vibes

Desert Vibes 01: Cactus Kween Inspired by my recent trip to SoCal.  Process Desert Vibes 02 Corona Heights “Desert Vibe

Our America

Our America is a series that is a huge collaboration from the 8 Owned ABC stations. Below are some select explainers I animate

Nat Geo Teaching You Kids about Race and Systematic Racism

We got to collaborate with Nat Geo on this piece on how to talk to your children about race. I created the animation/illustrat

Juneteenth

Got the privilege to create this Juneteenth explainer. For many black Americans, Juneteenth is a celebration to commemorate th

Planet Vision

I created this animation for the launch of the California Academy of Science’s Planet Vision initiative. It explores wha

Flipside Science

Flipside Science was a project I worked on at the Cal Academy of Sciences that taught kids and teenagers about sustainability.

THE CITY CANVAS: A PAINT THE VOID RETROSPECTIVE

In January 2022, two years after the Paint the Void Murals started going up, we finally got the chance to show some of them of

10th Annual Art Swagger 1on1 with artist Donavon Brutus

Earlier in the month I did an interview with for Art Swagger LA supporting Free Arts with Roxanne Rose.

Lecture and Q&A with the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum

You can check out the lecture here:https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=325113979399690

Career interview on the Creative Class Podcast

I was recently interviewed by Meres J. Weche for the Creative Class Podcast about my career. Check it out below! I l

Routes to Revolution Series

“Routes to Revolution” 2020 The days and weeks following the Deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George F

EMMY® AWARDS Nominated Haitian Artist Donavon Brutus joins Artnoise Culture Trip To Africa

Check out the Article Below https://taarifa.rw/nominated-haitian-artist-donavon-brutus-joins-artnoise-culture-trip-to-africa/?

Three 2021 NOR CAL EMMY® AWARDS Nominations

Exciting news, this year Three pieces I worked on were nominated for the 2021 NOR CAL EMMY® AWARDS. Two of which I lead the D

Featured in The Walt Disney Family Museum’s Conserving Nature Exhibit

Happy #Earthday. A few of my Antarctica photos and an illustration were included in The Walt Disney Family Museum

Embracing Our Differences 2021 Exihbit

It’s hard to describe the thrill of seeing your work go from a sketchbook to a small monitor to…this. The 2021 Emb

Local Exhibition Highlights Work, Stories of Black Artists

Here’s an article about Art Ventures NWA’s exhibit “Frame of Mind 2021” Sharon Killian, Joëlle S

2020 NorCal EMMY® AWARD Win!

We won! Incredibly good news at the end of another trying week. Over the weekend the NorCal EMMY® AWARDS were held remotely v

Nepal Art Teaching/Cultural Exchange

A couple weeks ago(2019) I returned to the Naimisharanya Kshetra school in Dhulikhel, Nepal I visited back in 2016. Got the op

Speaking at Afro Comic Con

I’ll be at AfroComicCon 2019 this weekend! Will be judging the Film Fest Friday and will have an art booth set up on Sat

8 Muni Bus Art Pieces

Seven by Siete by 七 by Pito by Bảy by семь by Sept Here are the 8 artworks I created for the Muni Art 2018 project. Al

E&J Gallo – Rose Your Way

Here’s a recent motion graphic piece created for E&J Gallo’s Rose Your way brand. I was given a script, voice

Making of Steinhart Aquarium

Here is a making of breakdown for the 3d Modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering I created of the California Academy of S

The Freedom Series

Freedom 01: Movement As my recent works have been quite technical and draining, I wanted to create something fast stress free

The Story of Poo

What happens to your poo when you flush the toilet? This animated video follows the journey through the San Francisco sewer sy

Patterns and Possibilities

In 2015 when I went to Marrakech I took a picture of a woman at the Ben Youssef Mosque. She was staring out of

1st Art Residency, Seventh Continent. Tasmania

This year as my 2.5 year contract with the California Academy of Sciences comes to a close I decided to apply to a 3 art resid

Vrksasana Series

This series began as a simple exploration of Indian, Japanese and Black American cultures representing a tree doing Tree pose.

Apex Predator

It’s Mermay on IG so figured I’d make her a mermaid. Last year I was really inspired by this orca Mermaid created by Aaron

Lost In Meditation

Similar to my Johnny Bravo series “Narcissism and Denial” I wanted to examine characters across pop culture seen m

Pop Culture Animals

The Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke. This was a quick one. Took about 6-7 hours instead of the usual 20-30. Knew exactly

Adapt and Modify

Adapt and Modify This was created for a contest call Embracing Our Differences. It encourages the celebration of differences o

Medical Foot Ulcer device

Here is a piece I did most of the 3d modeling, texturing and animation for. Matthew Jimenez created the motion graphics and cr

#169-171 Center Yourself

#169-171 Center Yourself: An idea I’ve had for a while as my struggle with self control of my inner extremes is constant. Re

Animal Abstract Series

Created in a long Series animal illustrations. Created in Illustrator. This Penguin piece inspired by a trip to Antarctic

Self Inspiration Series

“Self Inspiration 2” This is a revisiting of my older piece Self Inspiration.  It’s based on Amara Le N

Lift Off

Earlier in the year I saw video of the really inspiring speech by Harvard’s Donovan Livingston. As soon as it was over I

Create a Difference Campaign

Here are some logo created for a brand’s External philanthropic efforts. The second 2 are additional mock ups.

Pay it Forward 3: Monique

This is the 3rd pay it forward piece. Done for and based my friend Monique @agentdmz. I’ve been really wanting do do mor

Cultural Mask/Paint Series

The 6 part Cultural series as created due to an interest in face paints and mask of different world cultures. Worked on all 6

San Francisco Muni Bus Art

It has finally happened. Our artwork is live on San Francisco Muni Buses! I’ve got 8 artworks cruising around the city o

Drawing Penguins in Antarctica

Went to Antarctica over the holiday. Couldn’t pass up the chance to draw penguins live…even if it was on top of a

Sonesta 80 Years Time Square Ads

Got the opportunity to work with Point B Communications animating some Billboards in Time Square! They celebrate Sonesta

Presentation Process Map Infographic and Animation

Here’s a process map/infographic I designed and animated. Here is the wireframe sketch I did to start.

Each Morning and Each Evening

Here are 2 pieces inspired by the poetry of my friend Kevin Dublin. The first one each morning was done for San Francisco Beau

Deviant Behavior

Motion graphic intro animation I created for a class on Deviant (Outside the average majority) behavior. Animation, illustrati

Monsters Collab

Finally finished the huge collaboration between 16 of my friends, former coworkers, and colleagues. We took the monster drawin

Various Drawings 2013-2014

Jess Tara’s Inversion Spent the better part of today at the mechanic. Upside, got to draw all day. Nice to just turn you

Narcissism and Denial

This project was really fun to work on. It started as a stand alone piece done to be included in a collaboration between my co

Loser Bot

Man when was the last time I did some for-fun 3d work? Feels like forever! This guy started out as a sketch on the whiteboard

Super Fancy Party

Had a hard time deciding which of my backlogged illustration ideas to do so I picked the dumbest one. It’s the Super Fan

In-Flight Services

Sketched this on on my most recent flight. It was inspired by a couple of Flight Attendants. Stole the hair from one, face fro

Nasal Membrane Animation

This project started as an allergy awareness poster. I designed and created 3d elements for it. Later when It was over I went

Cock of the Walk

This is a collaborative piece between my coworkers and I in our spare time. Matt and Allison had the initiative to want to do

Argyle Suburbia

This piece is a collaboration between myself and my highschool friend Caleb Quin, a n awesome graffiti artist. A couple of yea

#152 Vodka Tonic

First traditional piece I’ve done in a while. Created with Marker, Ink, and Acrylic paint Here’s a shot of the Wor

Pay it Forward Series

Select pieces from the “Pay it Forward Series” To give back to my friends and followers every few years I create f

Smoking Drinking

This is something I’ve been picking at for a couple of years. Started it on a plane ride out of boredom. Happy I finally

Where do I begin

Self Portrait 150, my first in this style. When I have a lot of things to do or change I always ask myself where to begin. The

Adidas Fingerpaint

This one was created for the Adidas Fingerpaint contest on DA. Very fun and experimental. Created in Illustrator and Photoshop

Various Pop Culture Pieces

This one was created for a Cartoon Network art Jam. Probably the first of my pieces to combine the Hirschfeld, Shag, and Bauha

Heart Surgery Incision

This series of still renders was used in an application to show how incisions in the chest were made. Created in Maya.

Unbranded medical foam

This was a project showing how this medical foam killed backteria. I storyboarded, modeled, textured, lit, and rendered it mys

Deep

A series of illustrations done in the summer time. All created in illustrator.

Various Inkings

Here are some quick simplistic digital ink drawings. Stylistic focus is on fluidity and line. An Illustration of my high schoo

Whatever

Created in Illustrator

Retro Illustrations

“Bossa: Red and Green” Inspired by the work of Josh “Shag” Agle.Created in illustrator. “Vampire

Various Realistic Vector Pieces

Fantasmic. This one was my first dive into realistic vector work. Still a favorite. Created in Illustrator. Vector Icons creat

Various Realistic Studies 2005-2008

Give A anatomy study created from a starving African child found in an ad.Hand drawn with pencil Pull A nude figure study.Hand

Greatness Beyond Measure Print work

Here’s a flyer I created to promote Greatness Beyond Measure, a collection of events that empowers youths. Hosted by Chr

Hybrid Doorhanger

A door hanger for a local cleaning service. Designed in Illustrator.

Grec Conversions Card

Front at back of a business card for a local conversion company. Designed in Illustrator.

Various fun quickies

These are some random personal pieces mostly based on jokes with friends. Usually a chance to experiment with different styles