As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
I think of myself as a fantasy writer.
I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
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