The short answer is that I am a self-taught artist! I’ve been drawing my entire life and got a lot of encouragement from my immediate environment, which pushed me to continue learning. I took a few art classes in elementary school which taught me a lot about drawing from reference, but after that my art education was limited to lots of practice in my free time. I started drawing digitally with a mouse when I was 15 and got my first tablet when I was 16. After that, I spent a ton of time drawing digitally, teaching myself almost everything I know about digital software and using a tablet. I was obsessed! When I was 18, I decided to study animation and was an animation student for 5 years – one year at KASK in Gent, and 4 years at the HKU in Utrecht. I learned a lot of valuable things at these schools, but building the foundation of my digital art style was something I did on my own.
