Summary

I am an autistic savant and activist with savant skills in arts and languages. I am a future character designer and concept artist. I have one movie, and 2 TV shows I’ve been working on for a couple of years that I hope to sell to animation studios.
On Father’s Day in 2000, my talent of drawing was born, I was 3 years old when my mon put a Father’s Day card in front of me to make my mark but instead, I drew my dad’s face. From that day one I became obsessed with drawing faces. I drew my mom’s face, my dad’s face, my sister Gracie’s face. When I ran out of paper, I draw on the walls, floors, and then rolled out the toilet paper and started drawing on it.
At age 6, I met David Mehnert who was the founder of Savant Academy, an organization featured on 60 minutes. I did my first professional work for the savant academy and created their logo. David Mehnert became my mentor for the next 7 years of my life. During this time I had two art shows in Claremont. I did fundraising for Autism Speaks, LDA (Learning Disabilities Association), and Services Center for Independent Living. My art was featured in the book Artism: Art of Autism.
My educational experience was miserable because they tried to put me in a county class for people who had low IQ’s and cognitively delayed. My IQ is 140. The school said I was untestable therefore retarted. My parents said I was untestable and already reading and had me put in the ASRD class in the school district they fought for inclusion in society. I was fully included in regular classes from grades 3 to 12 with support and services. In 7th grade, I was forced to become an activist for inclusion.
I began to experience segregation when I started junior high school. The school staff told me that I need to break away from my friends, so they could keep me in the disabled quad. It was their idea to keep me safe. For me it was segregation and discrimination and loss of all my friends. This inspired me to write an essay about my experiences of segregation and inclusion which I called A Thousand Faces in a citywide essay contest which I won. My junior high school was angry that I wrote about my experiences in segregation, and the next thing I knew that I was denied from participating in Advanced Drama even though I made an A in Drama class and received standing ovations. They also refused to allow me to do my essay at a talent show saying it was offensive. So, I changed schools. Even though it was rated highest in the area to a charter art school which very poor to escape and find refugee so I can be included in society.
The first year at high school was successful and good with no segregation. But the second year, they added a junior high school to the charter school and they decided not to allow me to attend summer art camp. Later, I got an ADA attorney together, we helped changed the policy and now my former school and I work together to end discrimination and segregation.
During my freshman year at high school, my art teacher, Mrs. Preston told me that I need to create an original character. I liked history and culture and as an artist, I try to make it my goal to tell truth though history. I was inspired by my 7th grade History class with Justinian who was last Roman emperor and I became obsessed with him. For the last 5 years, I’ve been working on my animated feature film called Hopstinianus: The Last Roman that is based on the lives of Justinian and Theodora. This is the basis for my movie Hopstinianus: The Last Roman. I want to be a concept artist, writer, director, and animator. I have come with promotion ideas of the movie and merchandising ideas, it’s a romantic comedy/adventure/historical epic film. I was inspired by the styles of Looney Tunes, Disney, anime, Bruce Timm, and Butch Hartman.
I am also working on my two TV show ideas which are Sheepspeare Tales which is a black comedy based on Shakespeare’s plays. Some of the characters I developed for Sheepspeare Tales are Julius Cowsar, Mark Quactony, Cowpurnia, Mootus, Hamlet, Meowpatra, a sexy anthroporphic cat, Romeo and Squrreliet. My latest TV show idea is the Chronicles of KISS which was came up when I was a huge fan of KISS the rock band. I decided to put their roles as superheroes called the Rock Warriors who are descendants of the Ancient Warriors of Rock who fought against the Demon Lord. In this series, I bring truth through history using mythology. I represented Gene Simmons’ Jewish ancestry through a character I designed called Aishabanu this was cross between Mesopotamian and Jewish culture. I gave Paul Stanley a Greek inspired ancestor named Delilah which was inspired by Athena, Venus, and Diana. I gave Tommy Thayer an alien ancestor based on his Spaceman persona. I gave Eric Singer his wild like traits to his cat ancestor named Neko who is a tribal cat warrior which was influenced by African/Mesoamerican/Oceanian cultures.
I began my formal art training with Mark Westermoe who’s famous for doing the Total Recall poster. I spend a year with him till his sabbatical with diabetes. I understand if I want to be a good entertainment artist, I have learn how to do realism, I practice by drawing head abstractions, live models, and also hands and feet. I’m currently getting my portfolio ready for art school and attending classes at Citrus College which I’m in. My current grade is 4.00. My favorite class is Art History with my future mentor Sandra Johnson who is retiring after teaching, and I hope to continue my activist work by having speaking engagements speaking about inclusion for the rest of society. In closing, I would like to leave with my essay that started my activism.

Skills

Software proficiency

After Effects

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Vectorworks

Premiere

Harmony

Storyboard Pro

Audition

CLIP STUDIO PAINT

Wacom

Acrobat

Word

Final Cut Pro

Adobe Lightroom

Procreate

Reel