Subguardians Cover Art
Photography and Digital Illustration.
JO SCHRAMER
The Lake At Dusk Is A Pearl
Photography
Goldfish City Biome Illustration
Traditional to Digital techniques: Pencil Lineart re-rendered with vector pen-tool, color and light filters, photograph textures.
Prairie Sunset Rays
Plein-aire gouache. Nebraska Prairie at Dusk. Daily Practice.
Archer Season 11 Airplane | DAY
Digital painting techniques
Archer Season 11 Mech
Digital painting techniques: blending photo textures with painting, Shading and Lighting with blending modes, preserving layers for animation usage.
I Have Replaced My Eyes With Subguardian Technology
Traditional to Digital Techniques: Pencil and inks with ink-wash. Scanned then digitally cleaned and adjusted. Digital painted green.
Green Furb vs. The Furbularity
Recycled Ink, Ink made from guns, india ink, faux-flowers, e-waste
Archer Season 11 Cane Case Design
Digital sketching and design/rendering techniques.
Yeat portrait in Conté
Conté crayon and white pastel. Angular/Envelope sightline technique.
Gas Station Moon
Photography.
High Visibility Jacket
Photography
Broken wall at North Point in Winter
Plein-aire gouache with lake water and beach sand.
High Visibility
Photograph from car.
Tulip Petals
Gouache-- dusk on the Lake from memory re-using leftover paints from dusk palette. Painted in winter during blizzard. Tulips from April garden same year.
Light In 3 Subguard Aquatic System Biomes
Digital Art.
Green Furb vs. The Furbularity
Recycled Ink, Ink made from guns, india ink, faux-flowers, e-waste
Green Furb vs. The Furbularity
Recycled Ink, Ink made from guns, india ink, faux-flowers, e-waste
drink your tea
This is my most recent work, created 2025-2026. I have been exploring color changing teas and floral teas such as Thai Butterfly Pea Flower and Hibiscus, which both change colors when acid is added. I marvel at the vibrancy of color, and how similar it is both to the petals, as well as the changing light at dusk. Light travels through the fluid is no different than our atmosphere, reminding us that the air is a fluid; When we stand by the lake, we are also in it. Forever, the twilight gradient amazes me as it accesses a magic that is all at once personal, communal, and intrinsic. Where once I viewed it on a mountain, now I drink it from a flower and over a lake whose surface becomes a pearl in the dusk.
diary of a painter
These are my works between 2021-2023, created in departure from digital art. They record a conversation. In the azaleas growing around north Atlanta, I found a color which exists beyond comprehension and lives my own soul. I found a guitar that sounds like the mountain and shares that same color... And I listened to the dancing shadows of the leaves in the forests. Magnolias bloom in parking lots as well as in the forests. All history can be heard in the color of the Earth. Untethered, I returned to the midwest, where I sat with the Illinois prairie and felt kinship with coneflowers.
Digital Art and Direction
My illustration and background-painting portfolio, to be viewed by clients and companies interested in this skill set.
About Jo