Illustrations / UI Design / Social Media
Creative Lab
For my passion projects beside work
Outside of work, I love building small side projects to explore new technologies, experiment with ideas, and stay sharp. These range from bite-sized tools to creative experiments — each one a chance to learn something new.
Social Media Visuals
I created for fun a series of Instagram ad visuals for fictitious brands as a personal project, focusing on developing my design skills and experimenting with layout, color, and typography for social media marketing.
Portrait Sequence
This series of grayscale portraits explores the subtleties of human emotion stripped of color, focusing instead on the interplay of light, shadow, and texture to evoke vulnerability, strength, and presence. By removing color, I invite viewers to concentrate on expression, form, and the psychological space between the subject and observer.
Organizing Meet-Ups
To balance screen time with something more tactile, I initiated and ran painting meetups in Lisbon for several years — open-invite gatherings designed to spark creativity and community in an informal, offline setting.
