Humble Beginnings
Scrumptious the Black Knight (IYKYK.)
Insider Joke. Only the real ones know.
Who am I?
A Dreamer with some Special Skills.
My Muse and Inspiration!
The bread and butter of my life is my art and creative literature. For these cornerstones of my existence, I must thank my wandering mind for this breakthrough. I was the kid in class who would finish their work and then distract the class thinking they weren’t busy, much to the chagrin of teachers. So to avoid being nagged or living in the timeout corner and later the Principal’s office I would draw, mainly comic books as Captain Underpants was all the rage (Nostalgia. Wedgie woman was my favorite.) and it sparked an interest in Comics but mainly Cartooning.
It became a coping skill when puberty brought the worst out in everyone and feelings became something I couldn’t ignore, I struggle to this day with feeling emotions, let alone explaining them with any depth. Middle school meant friend groups and hierarchies, I was already a weird kid, and becoming depressed or apathetic would derail my efforts to socialize, so I replaced it with creativity hoping to escape my own reality.
I have a scattered brain in many senses and creative ventures are the only way I can navigate life and coherently explain my troubles to others. Verbalizing my feelings adequately for most of my life was impossible and in Art and Storytelling, I could give them names and get others to see my struggles and even my blessings when it came to mental health and life in general.
Humble Beginnings.
I have been an artist since the age of two, as my loving grandma told me at least a hundred times. A career-oriented one since around sixteen, if I am being fair. I have always loved art in all forms, including creative writing. I began making indie comic books around age six and crafting a J. R. R Tolkien level of complex graphic novel around age thirteen. As the chaotic perfectionist, I was never satisfied as the dream never flourished as it did in my head, so I kept toying, splicing genres. I spent the last ten years adding content to the plot and world-building as I matured my art and storytelling skills.
I learned many mediums in my time, first starting disastrously with Watercolors in the 7th grade. Craving precision, I progressed to Inks starting with cheap ball-point pens slowly learning that I like contour lines even after growing to hate them during a 10th-grade art assignment entailing the former. After deciding pens and pencils were dull and craving color in my art, Alcohol Markers became my latest obsession. All the while I was figuring out my art style exploring mixing cartoons and realism. Quickly fizzling out and sticking to realism for a while to sculpt my technical skill before expanding.
After dabbling in the traditional for most of my life and growing envious of how skilled digital artists make portraits look painlessly simple even though I quickly learned that was false, I tried my hand at digital art from age sixteen onward only to somewhat find a groove in 2021. So it took around seven years to find an art software that cooperated with my needs, a graphics tablet for my desktop and an iPad for when I’m out, and to develop the patience required to get used to simulated traditional art supplies.
I am open to trying all mediums at least once and have not met one that I do not like now that I am knowledgeable about the techniques and tools required to use them.