Hi, just wanna say first you're a huge inspiration for my art and continue to be. I also really appreciate your captions, pretty simple but funny. I was wondering what got you to this point? Did you take classes or are you completely self-taught? What materials do you use, and what strategy do you use for creating characters? I really enjoy how a lot of your drawings come out with so much personality, your style is very recognizable.

Hello. That’s a tough question to answer in a helpful way, haha. Since the interest to draw came quite naturally to me, what got me to where I am has been very organic and parallel to just living my life. I was self motivated, which I feel is one of the key components to wanting to pursue a skilled profession. There have been classes here and there, but they weren’t an initiative to study necessarily, I was just naturally drawn to them.

I like to follow many people and their work and I let just about any interests I’ve discovered help build the characters I draw. Like, I might be suddenly into space for some reason, and there might be a cool character from a cool show I’ve been watching that really grabs me, and I start melding those ideas into a drawing. Because I rarely need to develop a character further than that, I don’t bog myself down with too much information and detail. The details are easier to figure out after the fact anyway.

Personally, I spent a good few years thinking my style was too personalized for professional work and no one would hire me. I spent a few years trying desperately to match the styles of concept artists because I wanted to work in games. It was very unnatural for me, but I eventually merged what I learned into my style and I’d say it helped. I still think I got really lucky when people started adhering to my work though, haha.

Dunno if any of that was helpful or what you were looking for 😭 I tried!