About

I’m a magical freelance illustrator and a crafting hobbyist. Aside from my full-time job, I’m usually drawing or stitching a little something. The tool of my trade would have to be any type of pencil or graphite but I have no qualms with voyaging into other mediums.

I began drawing in pre-school while discovering not only was I a little above average at it, I also got a lot of enjoyment out of just…creating. At the time, my mother was finishing up her degree and took a couple of drawing courses at the her school. She used to spend hours drawing into the night with me right by her side. Most of her assignments were from her figure drawing class where she drew studies of nude people. Because of that, she made sure to only draw PG-rated things in front of me which usually included Sailor Moon characters or other anime characters (because I asked). I still took a peek at her sketch books containing the nude figures tho…because if you tell a kid NOT to do something, they’re interest has been piqued enough to do it lol. Regardless of the content of the drawings, I thought nothing of what was in front of me but how amazing her skill was when it came to animating these still images. These surreal and life-like people would come dancing off the page. It made me think, ” How can I breath life into a flat sheet of paper with nothing but a pencil?”

From that point on, I somehow knew that art was going to be in my life for the rest of my life. I never received any formal art lessons until high school. My father saw anything art related as a waste of time and non-profitable, so he never let me took it in school as an elective. The funny thing was that he also drew back in college but majored in engineering and just sort of lost touch with art, I guess. Granted, he’s landed nothing but great engineering jobs since and has made a good amount of money. I wonder if he misses drawing or ever wish he never stopped.

I took my first art class during freshman year of high school. Every year after that had at least a period of art be it drawing, multicultural art, or digital art. A part of the reason why I stuck to art in such a manner is because I’m musically and rhythmically disadvantaged. (My mother tried, TRIED, to get me to stick to dancing but I was absolutely miserable trying to awkwardly keep up with the class. I loathed reading and translating music sheets so that was a “no-go”.) So I stuck to creating art and different crafts. 🙂