Freelance and personal work in illustration.
Graphite, vellum, soft pastel, digital
2022
Published in the anthology Fire Season II.
Find it here: fireseason.org
Graphite, acrylic, coloured pencil, vellum, collage
2022
Published in the anthology Fire Season II.
Find it here: fireseason.org
Digital
2022
A banner illustration for the launch of the Proximy app.
Digital
2022
A banner illustration for the launch of the Proximy app.
Pencil, burned paper and digital
2020
Album art for Jordano Martinez’ 2020 album ‘LOGIC HAZARD’. You can stream/buy it here: https://jordanomartinez.bandcamp.com
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2020
An illustration for Fire Season, edited by Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese, a book compiling the works of dozens of artists on the subject of increasingly devastating wildfires.
2019
Illustration for a friend.
Pencil, acrylic, gouache, collage on illustration board
2019
I illustrated an excerpt of the 2008 book Tinkers by Paul Harding as a personal project..
Ink and digital
2019
This was my submission for the Georgia Straight summer cover contest. I didn’t win, but I received an honourable mention and it was a great experience either way.
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Acrylic on illustration board
2019
Album art for Jordano Martinez’ single “Choice”. You can find his work here: jordanomartinez.bandcamp.com/
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Acrylic, pencil, charcoal and digital
2019
One of two paired illustrations for SubTerrain magazine’s SHAME issue.
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Acrylic, pencil and digital
2019
One of two paired illustrations for SubTerrain magazine’s SHAME issue.
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Pencil, acrylic, collage and digital
2019
An illustration for SubTerrain magazine’s SHAME issue, in collaboration with illustrator Lara Carson (instagram: @lara_carson). The illustration accompanies the short story “Unit C and The Red Scorpions” by Bradley Peters, about his experience in a Vancouver prison. The story tells of internal struggles with shame and external struggles with gangs and the prison institution. Specifically, this scene was derived from his 29-day stint in solitary confinement.
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Pencil and digital
2019
An illustration for SubTerrain magazine’s SHAME issue. Illustrator Lara Carson (instagram: @lara_carson) and I also collaborated on the image to accompany a poem called “Privacy Encephalography Warrant”, this time with her taking the lead. She tasked me with making “plug-ins” for a semi-mechanical figure. I chose to carry on the theme of the biological vs. technological - making use of imagery in the poem. Lara later collaged these into her final work.
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Pencil and digital
2020
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Digital
Iterations of a design for a run of screen-printed shirts/sweaters. I went with the bottom two, which were printed on the back and left chest, respectively.
2020
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Pencil
2020
Some Corona-flavoured exploration/hysteria.
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Pencil, coloured pencil and digital
2020
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Pencil
2020
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Pencil
2020
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Inhabit was the 2019-2020 collaboration between my partner, Cay Burton, and I. Cay writes poetry which I respond to with my illustrations, and vice versa.
Pencil
2019
We reversed roles for this one: I made an illustration and Cay responded with a poem. The title is robbed from an essay by Bruno Latour and Albena Yaneva titled “Give Me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move”. Inspired by the work, I attempted to make a portrait of the building where Cay and I live.
You can read Cay’s response here: https://ellipsespoetry.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/the-continuous-flow-that-a-building-always-is/
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Charcoal, acrylic, gesso and collage on paper
2019
This illustration accompanies Cay’s poem “vague shadows”. You can read it here: https://ellipsespoetry.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/inhabit-vague-shadows/
Pencil, acrylic, gouache, ink and digital
2019
This illustration accompanies Cay’s poem “frog hollow”. You can read it here: https://ellipsespoetry.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/inhabit-frog-hollow/
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Pencil, acrylic and digital.
2019
This illustration accompanies Cay’s poem “oak & 70th”. You can read it here: https://ellipsespoetry.wordpress.com/2019/04/09/inhabit-oak-70th/
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The rest of my comics are posted on my Patreon for $3 USD/month. You can subscribe to them here: patreon.com/sawyercomics
2021
Excerpt from a comic.
Pencil and digital
A very sloppy, very fast, very unfulfilled promise to my vast social media following.
2021
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2020
Excerpt from a comic.
2020
Excerpt from a comic.
2020
Sketched on my trip to Santiago, Chile. Observing the climate surrounding the 2019-2020 Chilean protests.
2023
Excerpt from a comic.