About Me

I grew up in California during the late 90s and early 2000s. My art is influenced by the animated movies I loved as a kid and the anime and manga I’ve read since young adulthood. As a preteen, I became obsessed with character designs with Nobuteru Yuki being my first introduction to my ideal dream field, soon followed by Osamu Tezuka and Leiji Matsumoto.
Being a thrifty thrift store kid infused me with a love of all things kitschy and homely. I find something so appealing about physical and visual textures these days. I think it comes after a long day of looking at a screen for work I want to rest my eyes on something soft.

I came out of high school without a plan of any kind. I just knew that I wanted to take art classes and luckily I have the most supportive parents my wombmate and I could ask for. We were able to try everything I could convince her to drive us to. I couldn’t bring myself to decide on any single discipline or convince myself that I wouldn’t throw everything away to become a mother. So I just stuck with the art and that’s been my journey so far. While I haven’t been promoted to mother I have graduated to wife this past year and luckily I have more than enough niblings to keep me company.

Oddly enough the only class I received my only B in my very robust community college career was in 3D Animation, at the time this class was my shame but now it’s something I think about almost daily. Two years ago I started using Blender to model and create my characters called Rowdies.

I’ve been working on my observation skills this year in a hopes of drawing comics. The last few years have brought me a peace that I didn’t think a nervous wreck could feel and writing I think has a big part to play in that. Just being to enough the day-to-day has forced me to find the fun and honestly that could be my diet for the rest of my life.
Writing daily helps me to get my big feelings out. I’ve been working on being a part of the conversation instead of biding my time for it to end. This has been a lifelong struggle for me, but my little steps have improved my life quite a bit. Each day little by little I’m able to become the person I imagine myself in my head.
For the Rowdies I want to create a world like that of Scrubs or Adventure Time I love the vast cast of characters and the long lives of inside jokes and shared histories between characters.

In my downtime between work and art I love re-watching comfort shows like Cheers, Fraiser, and Wings while starting new classics like Workaholics, Regular Show and The Office with my now husband. I finished watching Adventure Time this year which was bittersweet for me as a fan of animation and everything this series brought us. My very favorite show at the moment is Bee and Puppycat. I believe if I have a daughter at some point I would love for her to be our little Bee.