Jaye Ward, a Student, Illustrator and Designer

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I'm a 21 year old student residing in Boston and I love to create.

I am a former cat-person, now dog-person, but one day when I have my own yard I plan to live with both.

I love being active and over the course of my life thus far I've been a practitioner and instructor of yoga, belly dance, and various styles of martial arts. I love animals and the outdoors and the social and political sciences. And philosphy. And birds. I have a lot of opinions about everything, I take interest in the systems that surround me, and I'm an absolute nut for organization. I have the idea that we're put on this earth to help one another and leave it all a better place than we found it.

For more fun facts and good times, I've got another website, FoxGrin.com, which is my more informal online abode.

As an artist

I am seeking to form a unique identity through style and skill in a wide selection of my favorite media – namely : watercolor, pastel, ink, graphite, water-based oils, linoleum printmaking, digital painting, web design, and layout design. As a perfectionist and near-certified professor of detail-obsessiveness, sometimes my art really is a labor of love, but it's still love.

I take my inspiration from the natural world, especially organic silhouettes such as the shape of a feather, or a leaf, or a tree. I have a passion for contrasts and serifs, for color and line, for light and shadow. As of late my work has focused on honing my skills through practice and studying the processes of artists who I greatly admire. Although I would consider myself mainly a 2D artist, I've been reaching out and experimenting in things like wheel-thrown ceramics and bookmaking because I simply don't like to get stale.

Terms of Use for my art

Absolutely no reproduction of my artwork is allowed without my expressed permission.

No reselling of my artwork is allowed in any form.
My work is not for personal use, such as decoration on a website, or as an icon for, say, an RP character sheet, or for any other non-commercial use.
You may feature my art someplace else, but only if you include my name and a link back to this site, and please notify me if you do so.
Budding artists are welcome to use my work as reference, because that's how I've learned a lot, but please respect me and my work by making that reference known and linking people to my original work. Don't trace because you won't learn anything.

For any questions or requests to use my art, please contact me.