India Mayes

Schmendrick came forward, his face cold and wet, but his voice level. "I turned you into a human being to save you from the Red Bull. There was nothing else I could do. I will turn you to yourself again, as soon as I can."

The girl began to touch her face timidly, recoiling from the feel of her own features. Her curled fingers brushed the mark on her forehead, and she closed her eyes and gave a thin, stabbing howl of loss and weariness and utter despair.

"What have you done to me?" she cried. "I will die here!" She tore at the smooth body, and blood followed her fingers. "I will die here! I will die!" Yet there was no fear in her face, though it ramped in her voice, in her hands and feet, in the white hair that fell down over her new body. Her face remained quiet and untroubled.

"The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."

A Barbie themed self-portrait

(not affiliated with Mattel)

A tribute to the 2022 short film by the Gobelins graduating class.

https://www.gobelins-school.com/gallery/vulvina-queen-ecstasy

𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘺, 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪

Illustration for a Stranger Things themed zine!

Book cover for Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, an assignment for Scifi, Fantasy, and Horror illustration class.

Willa practices earth magick. She spends a lot of time in her greenhouse reading herbal grimoires, mixing poultices, and planting spells into dirt. 

This is Cadence. She likes shopping, celebrity actors, divination, and talking to dead people. Her boyfriend is a spirit she met on the ouija board. 

This is Brigitte. She practices Nordic fire magick with candles, cauldrons, and cigarettes (if she's running low on time). She's into rock n roll and has a flamin guitar named Loki.

This is Vivien. She uses water magick, channeling the intuitive energies of the sea with potions, poultices, baths, and droughts.

An assignment for Scifi, Fantasy, and Horror illustration class, to create a symbiotic relationship between two creatures. Evidently, I chose parasitism. 

A re-envisioning of a classic fairytale. An assignment for Scifi, Fantasy, and Horror illustration class.

A re-imagined fantasy film poster for Scifi, Fantasy, and Horror illustration class.

A fun commission for a close friend.

The Black Shuck is one of many ghostly black dogs recorded across the British Isles.Sometimes recorded as an omen of death, sometimes a more companionable animal, it is classified as a cryptid, and there are varying accounts of the animal's appearance.