Creating art is second nature to me. I’ve been drawing and painting my whole life! ꒰ᐢ. ̫ .ᐢ꒱

While I do have an art education background, I’m also self-taught as I’ve been drawing all my life. Even to this day, I find myself learning new things that I find to be very valuable and help develop my creative skillset. I always actively seek to improve my creativity.

I love to harmonize a variety of mediums with each other. Though I don’t limit myself to these, I primarily use graphite and coloured pencils, acrylic paints, and procreate to create my work.

My artistic style came naturally, and finding it was never something that I focused on. In fact, my art style has changed drastically over the years. Nowadays I love being curious, experimental, and fluid when I create. I let myself flow and set no boundaries when creating my work, and that has led me to create artwork the way I do. °｡𖦹°.

I love combining traditional and digital art mediums together to create my illustrations. I welcome mistakes and explore experimentation.

When working with clay, I like to use white or white translucent sculpey premo, and I’ll often mix the clay with oil pastels if I desire a certain colour. Once baked, sometimes I’ll use acrylic paint to add in a few details.

I create all my pixel art and animations on Procreate! :)

Yes, of course! References are extremely vital to artists for many reasons.

As artists, our creativity is limited to the artistic knowledge and skills we currently have. So using references is necessary for broadening and developing our current creative library left stagnant in our minds. References help us find inspiration, evolve our imagination, aid our creative practice, and ease our learning process. They’re essential to our creative growth by helping develop our current artistic skillset.

Some references I use for my creative work have strictly been for this reason alone—to study, learn, practice, and develop my creative skills. And nowadays, because I’ve practiced so much, I can now draw a lot of things without needing references at all. The creative library in my mind expanded and evolved with the new knowledge that referencing has given me, and if I do use references, I use either myself, the objects around me, or little pieces of multiple reference images together to compile an illustration I have in mind. The end result is artwork that looks inspired by their reference(s), and not a carbon copy of them.

With that being said, unless it’s for personal educational purposes, I heavily avoid identically copying my reference(s) in my artwork. I use references for education or as inspiration, rather than copying them one for one, and I would never sell or monetize any artwork I’ve done if it’s a carbon copy or is too similar to their referenced image(s).

I always encourage artists to seek the knowledge and inspiration you can learn from referencing. Just remember to use them very wisely, mindfully, and always respect the artist(s)/creator(s) behind your referenced image(s).

Nowadays, I’m very passionate about creating work that feels very natural and fluid. I seek creating artwork that embraces mistakes, is experimental, and doesn’t feel “perfect”. I allow my inner child to let loose and have fun!

I love the idea of creating something out of nothing. You can create something that never existed before. It’s like I gave life to my creations. Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a cool feeling to see your ideas come to life, really. I just really love creating. It’s so much fun that I just want to create things forever! ˚✧ ₊˚

I listen to my body. Tired? Sleep. Hungry? Eat. The best ideas come to me when I’m bored and well rested. Ironically, I think taking breaks from creating is the key to staying inspired and motivated to create.

Always tap into your curiosity to learn, try, and discover new things. Most importantly, learn how to have fun. You have to sharpen the love for your craft just as much as we sharpen our skills. So, play with your curiosity until something sparks joy! ˎˊ ˗