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T-Shirt/Tote bag Design for the Milwaukee Public Market's 20th Anniversary. Done in collaboration with MIAD's Lubar Innovation Center.

Poster promoting Penfield Children's Center 29th Annual Croquet Ball

T-shirt designs and mockups for three different Horicon Marsh Wildlife Education Programs.

Digitally illustrated podcast covers.

Front cover for the (fictional) magazine Phreaker. Issue themed around the rise of AI, featuring articles about its use in surveillance, art, and politics.

Two bodybuilding competitors conspire to use performance enhancing drugs, but when they discover a magical chalice that can produce similar effects they find themselves swimming in deeper waters than expected.
Book cover with individual elements that can be rearranged for different marketing.

A paranoid teen girl named Shuck is forced to re-evaluate her beliefs after her eager little sister asks to be taught the witchy rituals Shuck has been secretly conducting to keep their family home safe from paranormal forces. Cover and title page illustration.

Three looping gifs creating a story based on constellations. Originally designed as labels for loose leaf tea cans.

Poster for Trek Bikes promoting their
Santa Rampage event.

Deep Sea Cocktail illustration and wordmark, featured in MIAD’s cocktail recipe booklet, Artful Libations: Artisanal Cocktail Recipes Illustrated by the Students of MIAD, distributed at the 2024 ICON12 Illustration Conference.

T-shirt designs for Horicon Marsh Wildlife Education Programs: Little Naturalists, Wildnerness Academy, and the Annual Bird Festival.*Created for a college assignment, not official merchandise

Final Art

Concept Sketches

Rough Sketches

Colorways and Process

Final Art

Brief: Create an illustration with individual elements that can be shuffled around for different marketing purposes.
Prompt word: Shell

My pitch: Two bodybuilding competitors conspire to use performance enhancing drugs, but when they discover a magical chalice that can produce similar effects they find themselves swimming in deeper waters than expected.

Poster promoting Penfield Children's Center 29th Annual Croquet Ball

Concept Sketches

Tight Sketches

Final Art

Poster for Trek Bikes promoting their
Santa Rampage event.

Concept Sketches

Tight Sketches and Color Variants

Final Art

T-shirt design created to celebrate the Milwaukee Public Market's 20th Anniversary. Created in collaboration between the Public Market and Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design's Lubar Innovation Center.

Concept Sketches

Color Variants

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Fin folk from all currents of the Celtic Sea come to shelter in the Eddystone Lighthouse. Sisters are reunited, and old ghosts are reconciled with.
16 page comic created for my Senior Thesis Project.

What a Worm and I Have in Common
Six page comic originally published in MCCZine's Ephemeral Moments: A Zine of Fleeting Beauty

One Pagers

Two-Headed D.B. Cooper
Three experimental two-page comics that adapt the Laura Gilpin poem The Two-Headed Calf to instead be about infamous 70s plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.

Worm Man: #1
14 Page comic featured in the 8 Comics Summer anthology Water City: Volume 1

Hotel Bennet Volume 1

Breaking the Bands
Script by Ace Mistakes. Published in MCCZine's Respun Threads: A Comic Anthology of Reimagined Fairy Tales

Two-Headed D.B. Cooper #1 and #2

The Eddystone Light

Worm Man Issue #1

Two Headed D.B. Cooper
Three experimental two-page comics that adapt the Laura Gilpin poem The Two-Headed Calf to instead be about infamous 70s plane hijacker D.B. Cooper. Both the man himself and the money he stole were never found, and his true identity is still a topic of debate today.
Created for D.B.'s 54th Birthday :)

Various single page comic experiments. Click to see in full.

Issue 1 of Worm Man
created for Volume 1 of Water City published by 8 Comics Summer (my comics collective- check us out!)Worm Man is not the hero Water City needs. They are a part time concessions stand cashier with the super inconvenience of intermittently transforming into a worm. Her passive aggressive aunt, the Mayor of Water City, keeps her employed for now, but surely a worm has to have some other useful skills for employment...

The Eddystone Light

A 16 page, traditionally inked comic created for my senior thesis project during my last semester at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.Fin folk from all currents of the Celtic Sea come to shelter in the Eddystone Lighthouse. Sisters are reunited, and old ghosts are reconciled with.

What a Worm and I Have in Common
A 6-page autobio comic published in MCCZine's Ephemeral Moments: A Zine of Fleeting Beauty, and showcased in The Space Between at Task Creative Gallery in Milwaukee

Breaking the Bands
First three pages.
Script by Ace Mistakes.
Published in Respun Threads: A Comic Anthology of Reimagined Fairy Tales

Lavern Bennet runs a blog where they review inns, hotels, and motels. When Lavern begins to visit hotels in their dreams, she starts reviewing them on her blog alongside the real ones. At first it was a joke, but they have quickly become fascinated by the strange architecture and distorted memories that shape the hotel rooms of the dream world.

Eagle Grove Inn

The Elliot

After Party Animals: Bonus Story
Layouts and inks by Eleri Theda Extence.
Script by Brooke Thompson.

Assignment Prompt Word: Shadow
Deliverables: Front book cover and title page illustration

Research

Pitch: A paranoid teen girl named Shuck is forced to re-evaluate her beliefs after her eager little sister asks to be taught the witchy rituals Shuck has been secretly conducting to keep their family home safe from paranormal forces.

Concept Sketches

Tight Sketches and Color Variants

Final Art

Deliverables: Wordmark and full page illustration to accompany a vintage cocktail recipe

Concept Sketches

Tight Sketch, Color Variants, Wordmark Ideation

Final Art

Featured in MIAD’s cocktail recipe booklet, Artful Libations: Artisanal Cocktail Recipes Illustrated by the Students of MIAD, that was distributed at the 2024 ICON12 Illustration Conference.

Eleri Theda Extence is an illustrator who lives and works in the homeland of the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, and Ojibwe peoples, also known as Wisconsin. They grew up inhaling every graphic novel in their local library and sometimes still cough up paper and ink. Then they got on the internet and started reading comics, because computers were harder to swallow.Their art mixes digital painting and traditional mediums like ink, watercolor, and crayon. In 2025 they graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Communication Design.You can send them a message at: [email protected]

Concept Sketches

Tight Sketch and Color Variants

Final Art