I'm a lifelong artist in any media (illustration, painting, sculpting, photography...you name it) but I've always preferred cartooning, which I started in elementary school. ​I won my first art contest when I was six, claiming 1st Place and a brand new Nintendo in the Hayward Clean-Up Days poster contest. Having primarily drawn cartoons, I tested the waters with more realistic art in middle school, then experimented with many different styles in high school. School staff asked me to illustrate posters for school plays and the covers for the seasonal concert programs; one year I contributed to a...more
