The Creator


"Solitary freespirit traveling the waters of digital painting in a journey to find self-fulfillment."

I've been into art for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I remember one of my biggest pastimes was tracing the cover of a PS2 videogame on a sheet of bond paper, and I would keep these filed inside a clear folder I carried almost everywhere. Sometimes, I had a copy of a Cartoon Network magazine from my school's bookstore, and from there I would pick pages in the magazine that I liked specifically, then trace them before stapling them all together like a mini magazine. And dear little me would be giddy over it and show it off everywhere.

In high school, I enjoyed a phase during my second year when I drew comics for my classmates, and they loved being featured in my work. Around this time, I joined DeviantArt and started uploading my colored pencil sketches outlined with black ink pens on the website. I was there for a time, indulging in my (compared to others) measly work and original stories, most of which never got anywhere and got left abandoned.

Around the time I began college, I gained access to a tablet for a few months and posted a few digital works, but after a while it broke down and I returned to traditional media. In 2014, I began delving into ink art, and despite getting a new tablet in 2015, my portfolio was dominated with ink art for the next five years.

Somewhere along the way, I came to feel very daunted doing digital work despite so many tutorials being within reach. Instead, I began to do other things since I found them much more preferable: games, which were very good at helping maintain long streaks of procrastination, and my Japanese language studies from 2017 until 2019, as I focused on eventually wanting to teach. I resigned to the idea that I would never be able to accomplish much with art nor have a career with it, anyway.

2020 came rolling and so did Covid-19, bringing the world to its knees and people's lives to a near-halt by March. But it wasn't after several months of grinding in Guild Wars 2 that I finally decided that I couldn't possibly remain in this state of just gaming my days away forever. There's more to my life than just passing the time and waiting for the storm to clear. I have so many ideas in my head that I know are worth more than just remaining as mere ideas. I wanted to see my ideas in paper, as reality, and bring them to life as I know they deserve to be. And for once I wanted to do something about my feeling of ineptness; I know I'm capable of doing something more, better, greater with art, and I want to prove it not just to the world, but especially to myself.

With that, I steeled my resolve and departed the realm of pencil sketches and inks. I sought to master my craft as a digital painter and pixel artist, and put my slowly expanding knowledge in practice... One art piece at a time. And my art skill had improved by leaps and bounds since.

In October 2025, however, I was thrust into a state of depression and melancholy. It came as a result of both struggling to find a means to overcome my glass ceiling and to have a successful career as a full-time artist... And failing to do both. Following months of rediscovering who I was and questioning my beliefs, I have come to accept that art is not meant to become my bread and butter; it is probably for the best given the breadth of experiences I've had undertaking several other professions, which I doubt I would have ever had if I remained an artist all my life. I have also chosen to discard my identity as an artist, if it means holding steadfast to my morals and not being part of a community that condemns me for having different ideals from the majority.

I've yet to truly find an apt title describing what I am. I no longer see myself as an artist, yet still engage in the craft since it continues to bring me genuine happiness. For the time being, I present myself as a solitary freespirit, seeking to find a sense of enlightenment and self-fulfillment through the stories I wish to tell of the characters I've created.

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Tools of the Trade


Pencil Sketches:

    • Faber-Castell 0.5 Mechanical Pencil
    • Faber-Castell PVC-Free Eraser
    • Faber-Castell Classic Colored Pencils
    • A4-sized White Bond Paper

 Inking:

    • Uni-ball Signo RT1 UMN-155 0.38mm Gel Pen (Black)
    • Leuchtturm Notebook (Medium-sized)
Digital Art:
    • Wacom One Graphics Tablet
    • Adobe Photoshop CS6 (For digital paintings.)
    • Aseprite (Pixel art.)
    • Easy Pose (For pose references.)

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Contact


You can reach me via the following, especially if you want to use my work with my permission. I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.

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