© Sara Abdo 2023

Sara Abdo

Digital Artist

About me

Hi I'm Sara!
I'm a graphic design student at MTSU, graduating in 2024. I was born in Egypt & raised in Nashville. I want to focus my career on illustration and game development. I have experience in Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Blender 3d, Unity, HTML, CSS, and JS.

I am Adobe Illustrator certified on Linkedin Learning and I have earned the Unity Essentials and Junior Programmer badges on Unity Learn.
1 engineering major + 1 horrible semester = 1 art major with a strange transcript

Recently

Globed In

December 2022
A puzzle-platformer where you wake up in a strange cabin, and have to find a way to escape. Made for the Cupsoft Game Jam. I won 1st place!! :) You can play Globed In here!
I made the art, animations, concept, and code. Music was made by my friend Dingus.

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Pijun

April 2022
A pixel game I made on scratch.io, where you play as a pigeon in the city and collect as much food as you can before time runs out. You can play it here!

Asteroid Avalanche

October 2022
My first big Unity project! A game where you avoid doom for a little dino. You can play it here!
I made the art, animation, music, sfx, and code.

The Queen of Spades

March 2021
A dust jacket for The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin. I researched Russian fashion and art trends of the time to make my art more authentic. I also subtly incorporated story elements into the design. Made in Illustrator and Indesign.

The Raven Cycle

February 2022
A series of 4 book covers I made for Maggie Stiefvater's series The Raven Cycle. I felt like their current covers (shown in the last image) didn't properly convey the amazing storytelling and magical feeling of this series. I combined mystical and natural elements of the story in bold illustrations. Made in Photoshop and InDesign.

SAC&D Shirt

November 2020
A shirt I designed for Tech's School of Art, Craft, & Design. I wanted to highlight every field of art and incorporate them into our golden eagle. Made in Illustrator.

Carrots

November 2022
A PSA poster series about the common myth that carrots make your eyesight better. I represented the myth conceptually. I researched WW2-era propaganda for the style, and unified the posters with their color scheme and repeated motifs. Made in Illustrator.

The Great Pyramid of Giza

October 2022
A poster about one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world. Scan with the Artivive app to see AR animation! Made in Illustrator and After Effects.

Festive kitty

December 2022
Merry Christmas! :)

Discovery

March 2022
A low-poly scene I made using 3d modelling, texturing, rigging, camera work, and nodes in Blender.

Booga

December 2021
A low-poly friend made in Blender. I learned more about shading nodes to make his texture more interesting.

Time

September 2021
A project that explores time through units and increments. What better way to show time passing than the ever-changing sky? I used a modular system of triangles to show the sky on different dates, sunlight through a window, and the daylight cycle. I used and broke the grid in the form of a gif, poster, and booklet. Made in Illustrator and Blender.

Design Manifesto

December 2021
A website project where I had to represent my design process and "manifesto" in a website. This was my first time doing web design, so I did tons of research. I had to make a few compromises but managed to make a website I'm proud of. Made from scratch in VS code.
saabdo42.github.io/design-manifesto/
I recently updated it and cleaned the code a LOT with what I've learned about web design.

Juxtapositions

November 2020
3 animations I made exploring juxtapositions of real/fake, machine/organism, visible/invisible, etc. Made in Photoshop.

5 constraints

October 2020
A group project where we each gave each other 5 variations/constraints to remake a work of art. The digital painting was the original, and I found 5 creative ways to remake it.