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The overall goal of my works is to tell the stories of the characters I have created and give my audience a glimpse into who the characters are and why they are the way that they are. I make pieces and characters based on the environment around me, specifically the plants and animals in my own backyard. My process starts in my current sketchbook. Sometimes characters get reused from a previous time in my life that I feel I could improve upon, characters designs will more likely than not change over the course of time. When I am satisfied with the design of the character, they are ready to be incorporated into the story, whilst designing the character I probably already have a good idea of what their personality is based on appearance or if they are based on a specific person.\nI work mainly with COPIC or Huhu markers on Bristol paper, this is my chosen medium because the smooth and easy blending of the materials make it possible for me to achieve the look I'm going for, although recently I have been incorporating colored pencils into my work after it was recommended to me. They are mainly used to color the background; this helps the characters stand out as opposed to the marker on marker look.\nWhen it comes to my style of drawing, I am heavily inspired by the works of E.H. Shepard (the illustrator of the Winnie the Pooh books) and Beatrix Potter (the writer and illustrator of Peter Rabbit) with both of these artists' works focusing on giving anthropomorphic traits to animals or other various objects.