I have been an art student at the University of West Florida for about five and a half years now, and should be graduating soon. I've been drawing seriously (as opposed to the drawings that everyone does, for fun) for about nine years, though I've drawn casually for as long as I can remember.

Shiningbeam is my online sketch diary. Almost everything posted here is illustration work that I do on my own time, rather than school-related projects, which tend to be in a more realistic and "serious" style. More specifically, it tends to be anime-and-manga-influenced illustrations.

My eventual goal is to work as an illustrator, be that in books, comics, animation or video games.