Jacosta

I was born in Baldwin Park, California in 1982, and four years later I was kidnapped by a pack of wild Sasquatch and forced to live in Spokane, Washington. I have been here ever since. I am in college, currently pursuing a degree in Spanish. I am an avid artist, I love to play guitar and bass, I am an awesome backgammon player, and I collect movies, particularly older films. I am a loose leaf tea snob, bags are for the novice.

Regarding my art, I am an independent comic artist and acrylic painter. I love illustrating the bizarre and unique, particularly from the world of fiction. I've been working on my Etsy shops for a little over a year now; my paintings have been sold to collectors all over the US. I am very honored to know that my paintings have reached to places like California, Washington, Chicago, New York, and Puerto Rico. Besides the paintings, I'm really big into ACEO/ATC sketch cards. I also do larger 5x7 illustrations, and I sell them at conventions. Fan goers seem to really appreciate an art size that easily fits into a premade photo frame.

I have always loved drawing comics and sketches, and I've been going to comic and scifi conventions for the last five years as an artist. It's been such a wonderful experience. Storytelling is so fun, and sequential art is a perfect blending of art and story that can be made by anyone, with just about any tools and a drive.

Princess of Mars, Zorro, Count of Monte Cristo, The Coming of Conan, Elric of Melnibone, Time Machine, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, On Stranger Tides, The Dresden Files, To Kill a Mockingbird

Writers: Alexandre Dumas, Isabel Allende, Robert E Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Moorcock, Edgar Allan Poe, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, Jim Butcher, and Arthur Conan Doyle

Alatriste, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage, Under the Same Moon, Kung Fu Panda, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Santo en Las Momias de Guanajuato, Classic Universal horror movies, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Tombstone, The Magnificent Seven, Amistad, The Golden Child, Big Trouble in Little Child, Blood Sport

"For it is in giving that we receive" -St. Francis of Assisi

"Worrying is just a waste of your imagination"

"There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not attempt them"

"The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people."

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert A. Heinlein

Frank Frazetta, Bruce Timm, Alex Toth, Humberto Ramos, Juarez Machado, Francesco Francavilla, John Buscema, Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon.