2011
The things I'd started thinking about the previous year started to materialize in 2011. I broke up with my boyfriend, came out, moved a few states over, started therapy, and started drawing Hookyland as a comic. Growing pains ran through everything I was doing including artwork, but I think you can start to see the benefit of it. There's still proportional issues and a timidity about composition but the style has grown up a little bit and I can see myself starting to understand faces a little bit better. The internet was changing too, and that changed my relationship with my artwork since the two had been so entwined previously. I was doing fewer exchanges and focusing on developing my story and learning more about various areas of interest like horror and Japanese history.

Major influences were Mitch Byrd, Junji Ito, Tite Kubo (of course), Ashley Wood, Maruo, Takehiko Inoue, Kurosawa, and Takashi Miike.

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