Alina Sandu

Illustration & Comics

Alina is an illustrator and comic artist born and raised in Richmond, BC. She’s into all things storytelling. Whatever the genre—movies, pulps, mythology—you name it, she has a favourite in it. Now, she wants to tell stories too—those of others and her own.

CAPIC Rodeo 13 2020
4th Place

Illustration

Dean's List
x 5
2018–2021

Merit List
x 5
2019–2020

A social media illustration for a fictional cosmetic line of Sephora that depicts a woman, turned away from the viewer doing her makeup, using the cosmetics that are growing out of the flowers and plays around her. Depicted in an art nouveau style. Social media illustration for a fictitious all-natural cosmetic line by Sephora.
Series of vector illustration depicting different things such as a black sheep being glitched out, a girl holding up a clown mask, an alcoholic woman obsessed with taking photos of herself, and an unidentified vulture claiming the torn off head of a white rabbit. Vector illustrations of censorship and corruption using idioms and references from folklore, mythology, and religion.
Editorial illustration of a hair metal rocker struggling to figure out why his infant daughter is crying whilst surrounded by battered baby toys in the middle of his dirty, shabby, bedroom. An editorial illustration that focuses on original character design and background art.
A webcomic called “Letting Go” that tells its tale through changing and overlapping frames that cannot be reproduced in print. The story tells the end of an affair between a businesswoman and her secretary in the 1980s. Letting Go is a webcomic that focuses on the end of an affair between a businesswoman and her secretary in the 1980s.
A webcomic called “The Fairy Door” presented by a series of 4 panel strips that tell the unlikely friendship between a boy and a fairy. The Fairy Door is a webcomic about an unlikely friendship between a fairy and a boy in a world where fairies are dangerous creatures.
Motion illustration of a Canadian hockey player bypassing his Swedish opponent for control of the puck during the Olympics. Motion illustration of a Canadian hockey player bypassing his Swedish opponent for control of the puck during the Olympics.
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