Art

About Me

Characters and Props are my favorite things to draw. There are little details, nuances, and clues that can communicate to your audience what a subject is like without saying a single word. I find that fascinating.

I remember the first time I really thought about character design and started trying to figure it out. I was 6 years old, and had recently gotten REALLY into a new hit game- Pokemon Red. I absolutely loved Pokemon, but 150 of the little guys just wasn’t enough for me. I needed more, and the next batch of Pokemon was not a guarantee back then.

I immediately set out to make some Pokemon of my own, but quickly realized two things;

• 1. I was terrible at drawing.

• 2. Coming up with new ideas was hard.

Undeterred by my lack of ability, I kept at it, creating new attacks and evolutions to play around with as I slowly began to notice the visual distinctions that made a Pokemon’s type recognizable at a glance. Eventually, people could actually tell what I was trying to draw, and my friends became very excited about it with me. They would request some of their own ideas for Pokemon, which I gladly obliged.

And that’s how my passion for art was born. As I got older and discovered other media, I kept having ideas for additions or improvements to things I was into, and would pursue them in my spare time. Star Wars really captured my imagination, so I had to come up with my own starship. I went through a Tabletop Role-playing phase, and started making my own maps so that I could plot out adventures for me and my friends.

At some point, though, something shifted. Instead of imagining additions to the worlds I loved, I started building my own; shaping characters, environments, and stories from the ground up. It was a gradual process, but once it clicked, it felt natural. That curiosity I had as a kid never really left. It just grew into something bigger. And the rest, as they say, is history.