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Sarasota News Leader May 10, 2013 Page 81 trying to go for more publishing-based jobs TIM PEACOCK after graduation." Peacock is an illustrator who focuses on tellWhen asked what inspires her work, Mojica ing stories with drawings that often incorporeplied that she is influenced by a variety of rate humor. He told the News Leader he plans genres and styles. "I usually take from Art to move to New York City in the fall to purDeco and Art Nouveau as well as fashion, fan- sue a freelance career and to work a day job tasy and whimsical themes and kind of create for primary income, with hopes of eventually supporting himself with his artistic endeavmy own worlds," she said. ors. New York City, he said, is "kind of where Mojica went on to explain that as an artist, she illustration is going on, at least for editorial aspires to produce works that evoke an emo- and institutional-based illustration." tional response in the viewer. "Mostly, when I work on my pieces, I consider what mood I Peacock added that he has been strongly inwant to convey, how I want my audience to fluenced by comic artists from Europe and feel," she said. "So I'm trying to combine the Japan, independent contemporary comic artemotional and visual aspects of my art and ists and sometimes classic superhero comics from past eras. In addition, he said, he apsort of meld the two together." Illustrations by Brandon Bakus are part of the showcase.