The Creator


"Trilingual artist traveling the waters of digital painting in a journey to discover her true artistic potential."

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. Now, I seek 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.


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.)

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.

I also host an art stream on Twitch called Chill Art Vibes. My schedule is written on my Twitch page. My streams are mostly quiet, but I'd appreciate if you came to chat, hang out, or even lurk while I work live. 💕


If you also like my work, you can support me on Patreon and Ko-fi. You can also support me by buying some merch from my Gumroad shop.

No comments:

Post a Comment