SisAnn’s Art Room

My deep love for animation began when I would repetively watch the Classic Disney animated films. My personal favorite is “Sleeping Beauty” as I loved that the infamous female animator ‘Mary Blair’ took part in the film(among many others). Ever since then, my love for wanting to visit the Walt Disney Animation Studios has grown with each passing time. I was always embarrassed as a kid; as many of my friends and their families often went to Disneyland or DisneyWorld as for my family, there were often too many financial struggles between my parents to afford to go. With that in the back of my mind, I made a vow to myself to get nearly every animated film onto VHS! Not was I just watching each film, but was also secretly studying it to have various techniques memorized by heart. I loved rewinding my favorite scenes and sequences over and over to also have those bits memorized. From someone who was born in the mid 80’s,(waaaay before the internet) I’d say I had the best of both animated worlds. 私の深いな愛アニメションにはデイズニー映画がもう一回もう一回巻き戻した…子供の頃には(眠り姫)だったよ！そのアニメターMary Blairも作りました..デイズニアニメションスタジオ旅行へいつもいつも子供の頃行きたくてけど、恥ずかしかった子供の思うた..他の友達とか同級生とか行きました。私の両親にたくさんお金の問題だった当てえらないもん. 子供の頭決めた！デイズニー全部VHS揃えたいってでした！！:) その映画見てないで、勉強しましたもね。巻き戻した大好き大好きだった❤️インタネットの前からふたりのアニメ世界ありました。（╹◡╹）♡

Anime in English after many years was later reintroduced to me by my older brother whom also loved it. As a teen, he would invite his best friends over and dominate the television, living room or basement. On some weekend nights, you could hear the roaring laughter from watching really bizarre horror films or watching anime..many nights due to the noise, I’d wake up and tiptoe outside of my bedroom to just get a tiny peek at what they were watching. To my surprised eyes it looked like a cartoon but something was odd about how the girls were animated; but my 8 year old brain couldn’t figure it out (until years later)… 90年後にはお兄さんのアニメ紹介始めたでした！！:) お兄さんもアニメ大好きだった…十代の頃(お兄さんって)お友達へお家に招いた。週末の夜でベースメントの大笑い声聞こえましたその理由が垣間見たそして、珍しかった私…そんな訳でアニメオタク生きてた。

As a self-taught artist I began the artistic journey at or around the age of 7. While growing up as a budding artist. I had many comments as well as support from family ( especially my maternal Grandmother), teachers. classmates, and friends both near and far. Despite that. I felt more than often very lonesome while being the only artist in my family without any type of mentor ship that I often craved for… As a child, I would mainly depict any and every imaginative thought(s) that came to my mind. There were many times I become beyond frustrated and would end up with piles and piles of crumbled up drawing papers; or I would mark a huge “X” on any drawing that I wasn’t satisfied with. 先生はいませんでしたの7歳の頃に描くの旅始めましたと皆んなさんのコメントと援助しました(特別な外祖母った)にも関わらず、1人っきりアーティストでご家族寂しくったな気持ち感じた。私の空応力で毎思う描きました^_^ 時々ガッキリしましたと“X”神が超えて描きました..

My maternal grandmother played a huge role in supporting my art. She displayed much of whatever I drew for her in her dinning room and the wall was filled with my art; as a kid I felt special. Among my mother’s favorite memories of me as a budding artist was, when I was drawing at the kitchen counter and drew for 6 hours without stopping to take any breaks. I was hyper focused on getting the drawings “right” or how I saw each one from my mind. I can remember how determined I was about not wanting to “stop” and to just “keep going”! 外祖母って大援助しました！！^__^♡♡♡♡♡ (おばあちゃん大好き😘)何でも描くおばあちゃんにデイング部屋の壁私のをいっぱい広がった！！（╹◡╹）♡お母さんの大好きな記憶私の事って若いなアーティストには六時間で描く止まらないだった！(^з^)-☆“止まらない”って“もう頑張らにゃきゃっ”ってと思うた！٩(^‿^)۶

Outside of taking Art classes in school, I took classes at The Broad Ripple Art Classes and when I was in my teens, I went to Herron’s School of Art Saturday School classes on Saturdays where I grew up in Indiana. Throughout those times, I made many artist friends and have maintained those friendships throughout the years which for the past 2 years, I remained in a strong friendship with 2 women whom I met while I met at Herron and from an anime convention from years ago… I wouldn’t change their token of friendship for anything else in this world.. As well as attending various art classes, making and keeping artist friends, I went to my first anime convention in Indiana which was C-Kon 2002. それにアートクラス授業を受けたでたくさん他の友達仲良くしました..あの頃に2人女性の有効出会ったわ！！( ◠‿◠ ) IndianaでC-Konのアニメ会行きました、2002年だった.

After that I discovered an anime convention which has held many fun and nerdy fangirl memories in the pocket of my geeky heart. Ever since I could remember anime played a huge role during my childhood, the anime that I grew up with was “MapleTown”, “Unico”,”The Adventures of the Little Koala”, “Maya the Bee”, “The Little Prince”, many of the mentioned anime was back from the mid-late 80’s. It wasn’t until I was 12 years old in the mid 90’s in which the anime series from Japan “Sailor Moon” came to the US and began on a continued journey into the of anime. When I saw “Sailor Moon” as an American schoolgirl, I was literally fascinated by all of the different character designs, bright costumes, but not only those things but the various animation techniques which really stood out to me as a pre-teen girl.

29 Years Worth Of Drawing & Living As An Artist

I can recall from the age of either 9 or 10 dreaming of being an artist. Yet I was still in underdeveloped at that age; not wanting to draw anything but cartoons such as Snoopy from Peanuts or Garfield from the Garfield comics or any of the Disney characters. By that time, I knew what I wanted in my life and did not care for learning about any other art forms (which I regret nowadays). As a budding artist, I was immensely stubborn at wanting to redraw images from what my mind portrayed as cartoons or comic characters..

Since childhood I’ve always wanted to be like Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston or the infamous Peanuts comic strip artist Charles M. Schulz and turn my life into a comic strip or book… I also grew up reading and collecting other sorts of comics such as Manga (Japanese term for comics) and some comics that were based off of my favorite 80’s cartoons. There were so many events in my life that I thought to myself “Hey! That would be great in my own comic someday!” As I continue to explore and learn the world of comic book making, my main goal is not to make a lot of money, but to enjoy much of its creative processes. That is why I chose to write and illustrate my own series of comics. 子供の頃からカナダ人漫画家リンジョンストン或いはチャロスエマソツスになりたい私の生活で漫画を作りました。私も他のコミックスとか漫画とか読みました^_^ その思いって「いつか漫画を作るよ！」その理由って漫画が出来ます…

I lived majority of my life surrounded by comics and comic art alike! From reading Peanuts and For Better or For Worse from the age that I began to read, I was in admiration to someday make my own comics. After I read a few strips about Elle’s surprise pregnancy with April from the comic For Better or For Worse; I knew for certain from that day forth that I wanted to make my life and my family into a comic strip! It was pure genius to me, yet I had no idea of the artist’s struggles on days when I didn’t feel very artistic or when I lacked motivation… During my childhood, whenever I finished reading a comic I would then create my very own and became lost into the world of hyper focus and creativity. It felt like pure heavenly bliss.. Oh! How I loved drawing Snoopy by freehand for classmates and teachers. Kids were shocked when I gave them my answer to their favorite question; Did you draw that freehand or traced it? And of course, my answer was “Freehand”…

Why I Can’t Enough of Manga! 漫画が止まらない！

For my generation we grew up with very little manga back in the 90’s era. There wasn’t as big as a selection in bookstores like there are today. Much of what was popular (to me) was mainly any manga in my native language was my manga idol Rumiko Takahashi. 私の90年時代って少しだけ漫画ではありませんから今日たくさんあります….たくさんの人気漫画英語版は高橋留美子先生だった(私大好きな漫画家わよ！)