I'm sure I began drawing as a baby when someone stuffed a crayon in my hand and I was taught not to eat it. But I began illustrating books when I was in elementary school. I still have the first storybook I ever illustrated. It was called "A House is a Home for Me," and it was about the homes that all things live in. There were crayons who lived in boxes, and a jaguar who lived in a cave, and then a house, where I, a human, lived.

I followed that performance with a sketchbook adventure about wolves based on Dragon Ball Z characters who shot energy blasts out of diamonds on their foreheads, and then I wrote and illustrated a story about my Everquest character, a lizard woman, fighting a dragon over a tree full of cupcakes. In high school I started doing portraits for my dad's friends at work, and from there I took on commissions, illustrated a children's book with a local author, entered contests, sold a few things, and now, here we are.