I can remember always enjoying art but started drawing a lot more when I was in secondary school. I became quite obsessed with it and was drawing all the time but had no intentions of exploring it as a career.

When I first started making art, everything was done traditionally. Then, when I was around 16, I got a drawing tablet and started practising with digital art. I would either make something purely traditional or purely digital. It wasn’t until later when I started experimenting and mixing my favourite aspects of both.

I wouldn’t say one is easier or faster than the other. I think maybe we pick up the one we enjoy using the most the fastest. It took me a while to get the hang of drawing digitally and getting drawing with my graphics tablet. For me, nothing beats the unpredictable nature of traditional media, but I love how much I can play around and experiment with digital art.

Technology has vastly improved; Procreate is such a great tool and really mimics drawing traditionally. I don’t personally feel there should be a competition between traditional and digital art though!

I definitely try to mimic in my art the way that I’m feeling sometimes or will include things that I visually like, such as colours or symbols. In that way, my works are personal but in a subtle way, which I like.

Being a feminist, I loved the opportunity to work on those books, especially as I always end up learning so much at the same time. I love that there are more female artists who now have more of a platform and space to share their work with social media like Instagram as gallery spaces have historically lacked female presence. Sometimes, it feels like the emphasis always has to be made that they are ‘female’ artists rather than just artists like men get to be. Male artists don’t have to answer questions about being feminists or being male in the industry.

To be honest, I don’t watch as many movies as TV shows! If I’ve watched something that has had a big impact, I love creating fan art; this is how the Wes Anderson zine came about. I love the narrative, characters, visuals and colours in his movies, and it was a project I always had in my mind to do. It remains a favourite.

I really love fashion illustration and I tend to do bits and pieces of it in my personal work more as ‘downtime drawing’ if that makes sense. I love taking a designer’s work and drawing it in my own style. Fashion is important in my daily life because if I feel good in what I’m wearing, then I feel so much more confident.

Getting to work with bigger brands has been very rewarding, but I’ve come to learn it’s the actual project brief that makes a project more fun rather than who it’s for. I always love working on personal work as well as commission work because that keeps my creativity flowing, and often, it’s in my personal work where I get to experiment more and see my work evolve and grow.

I love seeing brands hire and work with artists to create material. To me, this is so much more visually engaging.

I love getting to work on a range of projects and seeing my work in different mediums. Book projects are a lot of fun because although so much work and time go into them, it’s so rewarding to see the final product. I also enjoy animation; I’m definitely a beginner but I love seeing my work come to life however simple my skills are!

I’m working on a project now which I’ll be able to announce pretty soon! It’s happening in the summer and it’s something that has been on my list of dream projects and something I’ve never done before. I’m so excited about it but nervous too! I love seeing my work in print form and made into things, so hopefully, much more of that.