I taught myself how to draw at an early age by collecting comic books and imitating different art styles. My family has always been very supportive of my art – no matter how weird or scary it was. After high school I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew my career had to have something to do with art. My friend was in the same boat and suggested graphic design – which I knew nothing about at the time. I caught on to the concepts pretty quickly, and got my degree in that.

After getting into that as a career, I started thinking about how to utilize everything I was learning in the form of a personal project. Well, I had always wanted to work in the comic book industry… so I came up with the idea to write, illustrate, and self-publish my own book. I’m definitely not a writer, but I knew I could correctly spell definitely, so I thought I’d have a leg up on most people.

My next step was to figure out how to do it digitally. I didn’t want to mess with drawing something and having to scan it into the computer, so I bought a pen tablet. Transitioning my experience with pencils over to the tablet had a bit of a learning curve, but I caught on. So after years of writing my big sci-fi / fantasy epic, I found myself needing a break from living in the elaborate world I had created. During that break, I wrote Vestigia (which I’m really proud of). After completing that, I’m back at work on the bigger project – but now with the added bonus of having my wife, Kat co-writing.