Tina Solo

Tina Solo

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Out of Context Journaling

Digital posters and collages inspired by my daily journaling.
"Scorched Earth" title screen, featuring notepad drawing of a woman leaning into the crotch of a seated man.

Scorched Earth

Motion design assignment using typography and minimal graphic elements to embody my favorite Mad Men scene.
Animated 20s to be logo, with the "20" font changing each frame. The logo is set to a view of the Manhattan skyline overlaid with a blue, pink, and green gradient.

20s to be

Airing out the day-to-day sludge of living in New York City.
Model wearing Shiba beanie indoors.

Pixel Dogs

Series of 12 pixel art designs, cross-stitched on apparel.
Mockup of "The Remember When Tour" T-shirt on a concrete floor.

The Remember When Tour

Iconic Paulie Gualtieri faces and poses, designed in the style of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour poster.
Archival footage of Italian migrants on a boat.

Time Capsule

Weaving the story of four objects to explore deeper themes of travel, immigration, gastro-cultural rituals, and personal relationships.
Close-up of Butt is Legs pin resting on a white wooden table. The pin is heart-shaped, with a disembodied butt and legs forming part of the heart, and the words "BUTT IS LEGS" in the negative space of the rest of the heart.

Butt is Legs

Enamel pin designed for Project for Awesome charity event.
The Trapps 3D scene. It shows a room with wooden floor, white walls, and a window. At the center of the wall, below the window, there is a section painted in teal. It frames a retro jukebox and a neon sign that reads, “The Trapps.” There is a plant next to the jukebox, and four rap album covers hung up on the wall.

The Trapps

With a focus on texture and lighting details as a venue for storytelling, this project recreates an interior room on Autodesk Maya.
Hand drawing of the word "CORJA" in an eclectic serif font.

100 Dias de Lettering

Hand-lettering 100 Portuguese words, one a day.
Digital portrait of Daenerys Targaryen, a character from A Song of Ice and Fire. She is frowning, and backlit by an intense fire.

50 Days of Portraits

Painting 50 ASOIAF characters, one a day.
3D scene recreating "Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell" painting by Anne Vallayer-Coster. It shows a blue vase with a gold handle sitting on a beige stone slab next to a salmon-colored conch shell. In the vase, there is a flower arrangement of several colors: pink, peach, different shades of blue, mauve, and bright red.

Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell

With a focus on coloring, lighting, and composition, this scene recreates Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell on Autodesk Maya.
Digital portrait of Adrianna, a character from The Sopranos. She is wearing a French-looking outfit and beret, and smiling.

Look, I found Cosette!

Your friend? Someone needs to tell her she's dead.
Cross-stitch portrait of a white dog looking at the camera.

Henri

Portrait of an amusingly quirky, endearingly difficult, fiercely loved pet.
Cross-stitch of a blue-tinted moon with the words, "you've got to burn to shine".

Born Under a Bad Sign

Blue-tinted full moon design with Sopranos theme lyrics, cross-stitched in celebration of completing my first watch of the series.
Digital portrait of Paulie Walnuts, a character from The Sopranos. He is frowning and pointing his index and ring finger at someone, menacingly.

Whatever Happens

Whatever happens, we gotta be taken care of.
Digital portrait of Siobhan Roy, a character from Succession. She is wearing a blue dress and smoking a cigarette.

Quite a Piece of Work

Some people just aren't made to be mothers.
Low angle photo of model wearing Straight Chillin' hoodie, lighting up a joint.

Straight Chillin’

Chili Bean based on character design from the board game Bohnanza, cross-stitched on hoodie. 
Cross-stitch of Polite Cat, an internet meme.

Polite Cat

Cross-stitch of strange, delightful meme.
Digital portrait of Jenny of Oldstones. She has long, wavy brown hair, adorned with several daisies. Her face looks red as if she has been crying. The background is a dark purple shade.

Jenny of Oldstones

High in the halls of the kings who are gone, Jenny would dance with her ghosts.
Cross-stitch of a pixelated capybara, half-submerged in water. There are some yuzu fruits floating next to it, and one atop its head.

Capivara

Cross-stitch inspired by the phenomenon of capybaras in hot springs surrounded by fruits.
Digital portrait of Bellegere Otherys (the Black Pearl of Braavos), a character from A Song of Ice and Fire. She is wearing a shirt with purple corset, a knee-length yellow skirt, and her curly hair tied up with some loose strands. She is standing leaning back on the deck of her ship.

The Black Pearl of Braavos

It was said that Bellegere had a husband in every port and that Aegon was but one of many.
Digital painting of my croton flower by the window sill. The leaves have shades of red and green.

my big baby croton

I’m not a good plant mom.
GIF of Como Nossos Pais interactive project. It shows a couplet from the song, set next to a drawing of hands holding a microphone. When the user clicks on the animation, the hands become cuffed.

Como Nossos Pais

Interactive graphics coded on p5js exploring the layers of meaning behind the haunting lyrics in Como Nossos Pais.
Close-up of lavender ipê flowers, gently sprinkled with raindrops.

Home, Away From

I cry, unsurprisingly, on my way to the airport. Not a lot — a silent, well-behaved stream of tears.
Subway platform at West 4th street, with a blurry A train in movement.

Please Stand Back

We’re on the Grand Street station waiting for the B. David leans in, craning his neck to look for train lights inside the tunnel.
Gloomy Pampa landscape, with scattered cattle visible in the distance.

Land, Horses, Bones

Something is always lost when putting Brazilian thoughts on American paper. They resist English articulation.
Tiny tortoise on a rock surrounded by grass.

Tortuga

At age six, my parents got me a turtle, which I hated with a burning passion.
Bar shelf full of liquor bottles, illuminated in shades of orange and red.

A Girl’s Guide to the Man Hunt

I live for the chase. One of my favorite parts is the walk to the bar. I relish in every little detail: the sound of my heels, the swing of my hips, the flow of my dress.
Central Park lake on a beautiful sunny day.

On Parks, Benches, and Time

His chest glowed with the good kind of sweat, skin bathed in the faint pink of my string lights.
Areal shot of dark stormy sea.

The Calling

Last night I dreamt I was in the Queendom of Yemanjá. It was under the sea and above all clouds at the same time.
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Decorative line ending in a paper airplane.

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