Reader’s Digest, I am a one-woman illustration, stationery, and fine-art shop. My aesthetic leans heavily toward the geek/nerd, although I’m not enough of a geek/nerd to argue the difference between the two (just kidding, buy me a vodka soda and I will totally talk semantics).
Mine is a semi-self-taught, boot-strapping kind of story. For most of my adolescence and much of my early adulthood, I squirmed under the middle-middle-class teachings of financial security and back-up plans, unsatisfyingly funneling creative drives through rushed craft projects and doodles in the margins. In college, I branched out into cartooning, devouring every webcomic I could find, and even landed a gig creating a very novice strip for the North Texas Daily. Around this time, I did a lot of solo and collaborative artistic experimentation, including graphic novels, webcomics, abstract painting, and illustration.
In 2009, I was running out of storage room for my artwork, so I started an etsy shop. I ended up finding a niche in commission work, creating custom monsters, pet portraits, and generally random pieces of art. By 2013, I felt a little boxed in by the paint-and-canvas medium, so I purchased a large-format printer and went to town creating illustrations and stationary. Thus my Shertown Studios paper goods shop was born.
Now my work is split pretty evenly between ready-to-print pop-culture paper goods and custom digital print and hand-painted portraits. When I’m not saving the world one pixel at a time, I can usually be found dangling from an aerial apparatus or traveling wherever my wandering legs will carry me.
Mine is a semi-self-taught, boot-strapping kind of story. For most of my adolescence and much of my early adulthood, I squirmed under the middle-middle-class teachings of financial security and back-up plans, unsatisfyingly funneling creative drives through rushed craft projects and doodles in the margins. In college, I branched out into cartooning, devouring every webcomic I could find, and even landed a gig creating a very novice strip for the North Texas Daily. Around this time, I did a lot of solo and collaborative artistic experimentation, including graphic novels, webcomics, abstract painting, and illustration.
In 2009, I was running out of storage room for my artwork, so I started an etsy shop. I ended up finding a niche in commission work, creating custom monsters, pet portraits, and generally random pieces of art. By 2013, I felt a little boxed in by the paint-and-canvas medium, so I purchased a large-format printer and went to town creating illustrations and stationary. Thus my Shertown Studios paper goods shop was born.
Now my work is split pretty evenly between ready-to-print pop-culture paper goods and custom digital print and hand-painted portraits. When I’m not saving the world one pixel at a time, I can usually be found dangling from an aerial apparatus or traveling wherever my wandering legs will carry me.
