Lane Arts Design Apprenticeship Spring 2025
About
This spring, 3 design apprentices worked on creating digital stories.
They developed their own stories, characters and artwork for this website. See their artist statements below:
The pale green dot
by Guy
Who are you?
Guy D. He/him, based in the Pacific Northwest.
What do you make?
Speculative digital art about… well, anything related to worldbuilding: biology, geology, sociology, ecology, zoology, astronomy.
How do you make it?
I use almost exclusively Digital art
Why do you make it?
To make myself and possibly others happy. (Happiness not guaranteed)
What or who inspires you?
My art style inspired by the Kurzgesagt Youtube channel, can't nail down where I was inspired to worldbuild
What did you try in this class?
This is the first time I’ve had a goal in mind for my digital art.
I tried making a digestible story and website design.
What do you want to learn more about?
Anything. Learning how thing one leads to thing two is rather useful in worldbuilding.
Circus Files
by Mae
Mae McKinnon (she/them) is an artist that doubles in painting illustrating and clay as their forms of Art. She is mostly inspired by artists online (taylortottieottie99) and illustrations on her favorite books and graphic novels (Golden Rage) She mostly makes art to tell the stories she wants to tell and just have fun.
Untitled
by Sierra
Sierra Lambright is a queer artist and student based in Oregon. She is currently fourteen and a freshman at South Eugene Highschool. She creates many different forms of art, ranging from painting, to drawing, collage from found materials, sculpture, and digital art. Sierra makes artwork to express herself, and to display her thoughts and emotions in a physical way. She is inspired by many different forms of art, such as music, poetry, storytelling, animation, and of course standard art. Some of her favorite musical artists include TV Girl, Magdalena Bay, Panchiko, The Marías, Tyler, The Creator, and many more. Sierra also is inspired by films such as Arcane; League of Legends, Spiderman Into the Spiderverse, Serial Experiments Lain, and Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind. In this class, Sierra developed skills of designing environments and product design. She wants to learn more about advertising and monetizing her art, along with technical skills in traditional art.
