2025 Grad Show

Ericka Urbano

AUArts Grad Show 20250204_075829

VCD – Character Design & Illustration

I am Ericka Urbano, a Filipino-Canadian artist. Mainly working with charcoal and digital tools to create visual stories, my aim is to create art that resonates with other people. I want to tell stories that makes people feel, reflect and remember.

My favourite part of the art process is the research and concept development. Art is a way to connect people through shared emotions and questions. I am especially interested in how different cultures assign meaning to symbols with their myths, and stories. This curiosity often leads me to study art history, folk tales and other artists.

28 x 22 Charcoals
9 x 12 Charcoals
9 x 12 Charcoals
9 x 6 Charcoals
6 x 4.5 Charcoals

Charcoal Illustrations

This body of work was exhibited at Fridge Gallery in Fall 2024 Semester under the title of "Enigmatic Unconscious". After experiencing burnout, I found new inspiration through charcoal and a deep exploration of Symbolist art, especially the dreamlike works of Odilon Redon and Carl Jung’s psychological insights. The tiitles were given after the works are done. The process is drawing reductively which means it involved covering the whole paper with Charcoal and using the gaps seen from the textures of the paper as a guide for the illustration.

Charcoal Illustrations AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2024-10-09 at 3.35.59 AM
28 x 22 Charcoals
Charcoal Illustrations AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2024-10-09 at 3.40.52 AM
9 x 12 Charcoals
Charcoal Illustrations AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2024-10-09 at 3.36.25 AM
9 x 12 Charcoals
Charcoal Illustrations AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2024-10-09 at 3.36.18 AM
9 x 6 Charcoals
Charcoal Illustrations AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2024-10-09 at 3.36.08 AM
6 x 4.5 Charcoals
Band Promotional A band Promotional for a fictional rock band called Wet Sweaters
Skateboard Designs
Business Card Design
Packaging and Logo Design
A Book Design
Poster Design for a bookshop

Communications Design

Collection of Communication Designs throughout the years in AUARTS.

Communications Design AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2025-05-24 at 3.23.37 PM
Band Promotional A band Promotional for a fictional rock band called Wet Sweaters
Communications Design AUArts Grad Show skateboard mock up 1
Skateboard Designs
Communications Design AUArts Grad Show Dark Isometric Business Cards copy
Business Card Design
Communications Design AUArts Grad Show Screen Shot 2021-10-29 at 12.25.50 AM
Packaging and Logo Design
Communications Design AUArts Grad Show 2 mock
A Book Design
Communications Design AUArts Grad Show poster 2
Poster Design for a bookshop
Castillo Carvajal A Floating Castle created in Rhino
Complete 3D render of a room for an Illustration
Chess Pieces in Rhino
3D Character Turn around
Airplant container Designed in Rhino

3D Object Design and Fabrication

3D Object Design and Fabrication AUArts Grad Show Screen Shot 2022-09-15 at 9.11.43 PM
Castillo Carvajal A Floating Castle created in Rhino
3D Object Design and Fabrication AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2025-05-24 at 3.38.51 PM
Complete 3D render of a room for an Illustration
3D Object Design and Fabrication AUArts Grad Show rend3
Chess Pieces in Rhino
3D Object Design and Fabrication AUArts Grad Show Fin9
3D Character Turn around
3D Object Design and Fabrication AUArts Grad Show Final
Airplant container Designed in Rhino
3D Object Design and Fabrication AUArts Grad Show Screen Shot 2023-01-16 at 10.58.50 PM
Buboy's Character Turn around Main Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Inang's Character Design Side Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Tiyanak's Character Design Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Berberoka's Character Design Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Manananggal's Character Design Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
EM's Character Turn Around Character Design for a comic.

Character Designs

Character Designs from multiple projects throughout the years in AUARTS.

Character Designs AUArts Grad Show 3
Buboy's Character Turn around Main Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Character Designs AUArts Grad Show 4
Inang's Character Design Side Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Character Designs AUArts Grad Show 9
Tiyanak's Character Design Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Character Designs AUArts Grad Show 10
Berberoka's Character Design Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Character Designs AUArts Grad Show 11
Manananggal's Character Design Character Design for a role playing video game set in Philippines.
Character Designs AUArts Grad Show 8
EM's Character Turn Around Character Design for a comic.
Sta. Lucia Ilocos Sur
Panagsibbol ti Mangga
Mananangal's Kitchen
Bottle Story 1
Bottle Story 2
Abandoned Jail Cell

Environment Illustrations

Collections of Environment Designs throughout the years in AUARTs.

Environment Illustrations AUArts Grad Show final 2 copy
Sta. Lucia Ilocos Sur
Environment Illustrations AUArts Grad Show 2.1
Panagsibbol ti Mangga
Environment Illustrations AUArts Grad Show final atmos
Mananangal's Kitchen
Environment Illustrations AUArts Grad Show ph in fin
Bottle Story 1
Environment Illustrations AUArts Grad Show ph out
Bottle Story 2
Environment Illustrations AUArts Grad Show 2.3
Abandoned Jail Cell
TenTen's Character Turn Around
Tenten's character ideation
Nora's Character Turn Around
Nora's Character Ideation

Nora and Tenten Comic

Set in Philippines, this is a development of a horror-comedy comic about a found-family relationship between two unlikely beings, a funeral Director and a Tiyanak, a baby ghoul in Phillippine folklore.

Nora and Tenten Comic AUArts Grad Show twn
TenTen's Character Turn Around
Nora and Tenten Comic AUArts Grad Show tenten1
Tenten's character ideation
Nora and Tenten Comic AUArts Grad Show nora
Nora's Character Turn Around
Nora and Tenten Comic AUArts Grad Show mayumi 1
Nora's Character Ideation
Nora and Tenten Comic AUArts Grad Show Project 2 copy
Nora and Tenten Comic AUArts Grad Show exag
Tiya's Character Design
Figman's Character Design
Environment Design
Environment Design
Comic

Relations Comic

Set in Spanish Colonial Philippines, this is a development of a horror comic about conflicting relationship between a girl and her Aunt.

Relations Comic AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2025-04-02 at 3.51.11 AM
Tiya's Character Design
Relations Comic AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2025-04-02 at 3.51.52 AM
Figman's Character Design
Relations Comic AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2025-04-02 at 3.54.54 AM
Environment Design
Relations Comic AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2025-04-02 at 3.51.41 AM
Environment Design
Relations Comic AUArts Grad Show 1n2
Comic
Relations Comic AUArts Grad Show 3n4
Red Riding Hood Comic
Gambler's Luck Comic
Tiko's Character Ideation
Comic thumbnails for a cowboy Project
Cowboy Joe - Comic Draft Pt1
Cowboy Joe - Comic Draft Pt2

Really Rough Draft Comics

Really Rough Draft Comics AUArts Grad Show Wolves comic
Red Riding Hood Comic
Really Rough Draft Comics AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2025-05-24 at 3.48.53 PM
Gambler's Luck Comic
Really Rough Draft Comics AUArts Grad Show Screenshot 2024-03-02 at 5.45.56 AM
Tiko's Character Ideation
Really Rough Draft Comics AUArts Grad Show 2cb
Comic thumbnails for a cowboy Project
Really Rough Draft Comics AUArts Grad Show 2bc
Cowboy Joe - Comic Draft Pt1
Really Rough Draft Comics AUArts Grad Show 3bc
Cowboy Joe - Comic Draft Pt2
The Rooster

Rooster's Job Comic

Series of short comics about The Rooster having a hard time in his job to wake up the Sun and start the day.

Rooster's Job Comic AUArts Grad Show comp 2
The Rooster
Rooster's Job Comic AUArts Grad Show comp 3
Rooster's Job Comic AUArts Grad Show comp 6
Rooster's Job Comic AUArts Grad Show comp 4
Rooster's Job Comic AUArts Grad Show comp 9
Rooster's Job Comic AUArts Grad Show exercise again

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