For my Mentorship, I was paired with Jouchelle Miranda, a storyboard artist working at Atomic Cartoons. I knew from the start that I wanted to do concept art/character design for my mentorship project, and upon seeing her work, I knew it would be a great opportunity to hone my skills and flesh out some characters.

We met for a beer and I presented some ideas to her that I thought I could flesh out for the project, two of which were based on existing illustrations of mine and one was an idea for a Webcomic that I’ve been thinking about for a while. I expressed what my desires were out of the project, as well as my weaknesses and what I wanted to improve on out of this, along with developing a great portfolio piece. As dynamic expressions and characters were something that I struggle with, we decided to focus on that and take the path of the Webtoon in order to have a fresh start.