About

Name: Sam Arce Ricaplaza
Alias: samrin, essarr, arcaza
Gender: Female
Age: 20
DoB: 04.06.89
Location: Ontario, Canada
Interests: Anime, Manga, Square series, RPG games, Etc.
Contact: sam.arcaza@gmail.com

Education:
Pope John Paul II Catholic Secondary School
Seneca @ York

Art: I love to draw, I have been drawing ever since I could remember that I’ve held a pencil. I started out as a young professional stick-figure artist, and soon moved on to Anime. Though I have an anime style drawing, I try to stray from making it my default style. I am still, even at this moment, trying to find something that I can at least call my own. Through this, I do what I can to continue on my quest to improve and learn something new each and every way I can. By doing so, however, does cause some of my art to look inconsistent at times. I take the inconsistency a positive point to let me realize that I could definitely broaden my variation and capabilities in art. Though Anime was what started my interest in drawing, I am still able to draw in a cartoonish or realistic style. Through these, I am able to produce various possibilities that I hope can appeal to many as it does to me.
A method I had been doing since my later years in high school was to draw only in pen so that I am, in a way, forced to avoid making mistakes. This enables me to avoid the use of erasing over and over again. I also find it a bit more spontaneous to use a pen, but that could just be me.

Photography: This field was only fully pursued after getting a taste of the DSLR; Canon Rebel XTi. Prior to that, I had just only been interested in looking at beautiful photos in many different genres such as fashion, scenery, portraits and many more. I would only take random pictures with my Canon Digital Camera of my family, friends, flowers, poles, fences, my cat and so much more. I slowly got more interested as I kept on taking pictures. Finally, after taking a class in college that had a small part concerning photography- it was then that brought me to pursue photography on the side. I try to find willing people, usually my friends, I can take pictures of to help me practice. For now, I take opportunities of anime conventions (I know, it seems childish or unprofessional. Apologies, but I like it, haha) to take photos of Cosplayers as another means of practise to improve.

Tools:
Pencil (Usually 2H or 4H to start with)
Pen (a favourite pen of mine)
Tablet ( a simple Wacom, sorry am not that rich :P )
Adobe Photoshop
Canon Rebel XTi