illustration - james cao's portfolio

Union Mural Project

acrylic marker on board

2022

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Warm/Cool

digital

2021

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Discovery

digital

2021

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Nightmares

digital

2021

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Connection

mixed media

8.5x11

2021

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Transit

ink & collage

2021

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Landscape illustration of a party scene in a mythological queer bar. Characters interacting perspective dance and drink including vampires, werewolves, and other monsters.

Mythos of a Queer Misfit

mixed media

March 2024

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Black and white line illustrations of twenty-one different drawings of dogs’ heads and bodies. Framed with toys, paw prints, and dots.

Dog Draw

ink on paper

9x12 inches

January 2025

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Eight panel poster of various characters interacting and reading comic books. Various ages, genders, races, and environments within each shape.

Comics Are For Everyone!

digital / risograph

11x17 inches

November 2024

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Lineless fish-eye illustraiton of a hijabi riding a scooter on a Toronto sidewalk. They wear green, the grass anda. passing streetcar are purple, the sun and sky are pink.

Scooter City

digital

7.5x10 inches

September 2024

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Risograph-style illustration of an overhead map-style view of Toronto’s Grange Park in shades of green. Paths across the composition are overlaid in orange veins. Warped text in the centre of Indigenous land acknowledgement.

Desire Lines

digital

8.5x11

January 2024

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Bright, colourful illustration in shades of blue, yellow, and red. A teen boy holds himself with one arm and looks down at his phone with an anxious expression. He is surrounded by various tech icons.

Generation Zero

acrylic gouache

9x12 inches

2019

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Colourful illustration of a bowl of ramen with rainbow noodles and colourfully shaped food. The bowl rests on a light wood table.

Emotional Eating

mixed media

2019

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Black and white cartoon illustration of two heads fused with an adjoining oversized third eye.

Sense of Self

mixed media

2020

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Three-panel illustration of the same figure repeated in various waiting rooms. First shows a young child in a doctor’s office, second shows a moody teenager in a guidance office, third shows a young adult in a therapist’s office.

Transness & the Eternal Waiting Room

alcohol marker & ink on paper

2019

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A woman sits on the floor of her bedroom, wearing a brown sweater dress and brown socks. Behind her is a bed with a cat, several plants, a coffee table, and dark red curtains with a nature tapestry.

Freyja Tagaq – Bastard Child of Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tanya Tagaq

alcohol marker & ink on paper

2020

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