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A detailed painting of a dark-skinned Black woman holding a sword hangs on a dark purple wall. Her hairstyle is layered white, light purple, and light blue dreadlocks, and her outfit is a dress made of white bandages. Her sword handle is gold and the blade is silver. A drop of bright pink liquid, resembling blood, hovers beneath the tip of her sword blade. A halo of the same color frames her head. Her eyes are closed. A much smaller figure stands on the ground before the large painting, holding a bright flashlight at her side, suggesting she is in a dark room. This figure is wearing a dark blue tank top and light blue baggy pants. Her hair is dark and shaggy. We see her from the back view, so her face is not visible.

A Dream of Her

Althea Bradley

Digital Illustration

Undergraduate
“A Dream of Her” is a digital illustration made for the University of Michigan's Digital Painting Club, DigiPaint, and their annually published zine. The zine's theme for the 2023-2024 academic year was "Dreams and Nightmares". For this I created an illustration of my original character, Kaoru’s, dream. In this dream, she sees a vision of a mysterious woman that she later meets in real life. This starts a chain of events that leads to her discovering a secret world existing on floating islands in the Earth’s atmosphere, inspired by the island Atlantis from Plato’s works “Timaeus” and “Critias”.