Elizabeth Galian

I’ve always been inspired by environments and wanted to stretch my creative chops by drawing something a little different from my usual style frames and editorial illustrations! Deeply inspired by Summer Camp Island’s whimsical backgrounds, I drew this isolated witch’s cabin where its inhabitant probably brews up potions and talks to goth frogs.

An artist pack commissioned by Holler.io! Design and animation by yours truly.

As one of the animators on this HBO series, I had the task of designing and animating across all four episodes. The highlights live here.

What if Circe and Scylla were young teens navigating their relationship at summer camp? Here are some original designs of what they and their nymph friends would be like!

Another personal illustration! I love the idea of an observatory hidden in the woods and was itching to draw it.

This started out as a sketch of blobs in my sketchbook, made randomly with posca pens. I looked for shapes and figures in the madness, and drew over the dried blobs with micron pens. In the end, I got this cool family portrait that I refined and digitized. This search and find drawing is my favorite way to shake the cobwebs loose!

Sometimes fun projects get killed. Some of those projects live here! I was inspired by the idea of skewing figures to make their proportions more interesting. I also wanted to play with pops of color against monotone backgrounds, while keeping saturation high.

Vox’s Unexplained podcast did an episode about ball lightning. When they reached out to ask me to make a comic out of the witness’s stories, I was so excited — I love spooky unexplained stories, so this project was a dream come true! You can see the full comics here

An artist pack commissioned by Holler.io! Design and animation by yours truly.

Personal project reimagining tarot cards in a very textured, colorful style. Picking a suit of cards to illustrate in quiet moments is a really fun design challenge!

Personal illustration playing with stacking shapes :)

I was selected to illustrate some assets for the 2020 Adobe Max, and jumped at the opportunity! This was such a fun way to explore how 2020 was feeling creatively; sometimes occupying a loud creative space online, and other times quietly exploring creative depths with newfound time.

In February of 2021, I joined a stellar team put together and lead by Julia Iverson to make a series of videos for Target! It was so much fun to make these soft, fluid frames — and even more fun to watch the animation team bring them to life!

A fun drawing done on a cloudy day

An artist pack commissioned by Holler.io! Design and animation by yours truly.

An artist pack commissioned by Holler.io! Design and animation by yours truly.

Personal drawing, done between rounds of edits at work :)

Personal illustration exploring body shapes and sizes. The NYC subway felt like the perfect place to play with the idea of bodies really filling a space.