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When I was in highschool

I grew up with Fantasy genre movies and interpreted my emotions through creative expressions.

2016, when I first saw Moana in the theaters and realized people make movies for a living.

Christopher Cruz is a Filipino-American Illustrator and Artist based in Oakland, California who focuses on editorial illustrations, posters, and cover art through the combination of ink, scratchboard, and digital mediums.

Around the time I was 16/17 when i took a good look at what I enjoy to do and how I could potentially turn it into a career.

My last year of high school. I never seriously considered art as a career until I met someone who was applying to study animation. Which is when it suddenly clicked with me that that is a career I want to pursue.

Since high school I was always drawn to art and visual communications