As a board member of the Sun Gallery, we're always looking for unique ways to make art and promote the gallery. Carla Dozier, the board president, had the idea to create a mascot for the gallery and drew up a rough sketch of Stan the Sun. I took that sketch and created a digital version of Stan, the Octopus.

Once the digital version was complete, we used it in various places, but most importantly, Carla took my digital reference and painted a matching mural on the walls of the makerspace. I painted a bit, but my skills are all digital, and I was afraid I was screwing it up, so didn't do much!

Later, I went on to use a digital capture of the physical mural in designing some Stan stickers.

the original sketch by Carla Dozier (it's super compressed because I misplaced the original, and this was saved, downsampled inside Adobe Illustrator)

the final digital piece, leaving some room for text to be painted in the mural on the sign and scroll

The mural as painted on the walls of the makerspace

Stan stickers! The tiny steampunk pirate ship is AI generated, but the rest is design/layout and a photo of the mural

A variation of the digital illustration to market a art and gardening class at the gallery