Like for so many other people, 2020 has been a hard year for me. I've tried not to think about all the hard, bad, hurtful things that...

I've been burnt out. I mean the "every time I have to work all I want to do is cry" burnout. The serious stuff. I haven't been able to...

Thanks for following along on this journey with me. It has finally come, the eve of the final deadline. I'm about to hand in my final...

It's always at this point in the project, where I am forced to reconsider all choices I have made up until this point, and really wonder...

A wordless picture book by Shanice Boesak, Illustrated by Jamie Calf

Yes, it's me. Congratulations you! Okay, in all honesty, I'm not 100% done. I'm just finished illustrating and laying out the book. I've...

I did it! I sent an email to the client (with progress pictures and everything). AAAAND, they liked it! This basically means that I can...

The thing about illustration, is that it takes time. Like, a lot of time. And sometimes, when you've been at your desk for hours and...

I have been emailing non-stop. I email the client, they email me back changes. I furiously sketch so that I can send these changes back...

IT'S CRUNCH TIME! (I feel like that looks like I am excited and enthusiastic about my impending doom. I'm not. Read it again in a doom...

As an extreme introvert, who also happens to be afflicted with severe shyness, these interviews have been both an interesting and...

Surprisingly, research is not something I dislike. Is it in my list of top 100 things to do, no, but in the greater scheme of things,...

So what is my Wordless Picture Book Project all about? Seeing as how it is part of the Human Centered Design Thinking module, it can't be...

Walking into our lecture and getting told we were going to be working on a human centered design project, sounded like a lot of fun. And...