How did you become an artist?I'm Kaori, or Kworin! I'm 23 years old (born in 2001 for those curious), and I'm an illustrator from São Paulo, Brazil. I've always loved drawing; I was the type of kid who would draw on walls. Around the age of 10-11, I became friends with someone who drew a lot of manga, which got me interested in watching anime and drawing my favorite characters.

How did you become an artist?Art has been an intrinsic part of my life since I can remember. I’ve always loved to create. One of my earliest memories of drawing was with a childhood friend who was much older than me. She first inspired me to draw. I still remember the first drawing I did with her. It was of Sailor Venus from Sailor Moon...

How did you become an artist?When I was 9 I was sent to a new school, where I met my first girl friends, who happened to spend the time drawing about series and video games they liked (My Little Pony, Five Nights at Freddy’s, etc) so drawing became a daily routine, slowly I started to notice I really liked it...

How did you become an artist? I’ve always been keen on art ever since I was a child, but it was really more of a hobby back then. I’d be inspired by Sailormoon and other classic animes from the ‘90s and just while away the time drawing. But sometime around University, I started taking a more keen interest in it while studying something totally unrelated to art later on... 

How did you become an artist?I’m Juliana Loyola aka Ju Loyola. I’m a deaf artist that work with comics and illustration based in São Paulo, Brazil. When I was a kid, I always had the dream of becoming a comics artist, I loved comics in general and mainly Brazilian ones like Turma da Mônica, which led be to become na artist...

How did you become an artist?I have always drawn since I was little, but I am clear that since I was 11 years old I wanted to draw as a regular part of my life. I discovered it thanks to Adventure Time. I wanted to create scenarios with the characters that were not happening at that time in the series, the motivation to materialize what I imagined was my biggest driving force...