Hi! My name is Izzy, and I am an illustrator and recent graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design. I love bringing characters’ unique personalities to life through my art, and I hope to spread humor and happiness through my work.
Internships
2022- Pencil Gator Studios. Illustrated character designs and turnarounds for the animated pilot Fate Saga.
Workshops
2023 – Participated in a workshop with Cloudco through Ringling, creating and presenting Care Bears illustrations.
2023 – Participated in a workshop with Nickelodeon through Ringling, creating and pitching a storyboard for the show Kamp Koral.
Work Experience
2023 – Illustrated two-page comic for Ringling’s annual comic book Meanwhile (Issue 14, pages 10-11)
2022 – Illustrated two-page comic for Ringling’s annual comic book Meanwhile (Issue 13, pages 12-13)
2021 -2022 – Figure Drawing Tutor at Ringling College of Art and Design
2022 – Sales Ambassador at Blick Art Materials
Exhibitions
2023 – Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Contest 2023, for the illustration “The Too Clever Fox Comic’
2023 – 2023 Best of Ringling Annual Juried Exhibition, for the illustration ‘Too Clever Fox’
2022 – 2022 Best of Ringling Annual Juried Exhibition, for the illustration “Kite Ghost”
2020 – Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum 2nd Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition, Honorable Mention in 2D Art
2020 – 15th Congressional Art Show 2020 at Tampa Museum of Art 2nd place “Underground”
2020 – Scholastic Art & Writing Award Silver Key “Into the Woods”
Oct 2019 – Youth Art Council exhibit Past, Present, Future at Tampa Museum of Art “Tree of Knowledge”
Oct 2019 – Frankenstein Exhibit at University of South Florida
Sept 25, 2019 – Helios Education Foundation Reception Charcoal
Apr 2019 – Dali Surrealist High School Student Exhibition “Girl with Cat”
Mar 2019 – 14th Congressional District High School Competition
Mar 2019 – “Encapsulate” Blake Student Art Show “Flood of Thoughts”
Honors
2020 – Awarded Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts Charlie Hounchell Art Stars Scholarship, in Visual Arts
2020 – Awarded Florida Watercolor Society Scholarship
2019 – Awarded Anne Frank Humanitarian Award