Animation
3D
Painting
Isabel Lauren Loewe
Oct 18, 2025
Jennifer Evans
In Waco, Texas, artist Jen is quietly building her own hybrid world that's equal parts digital fantasy and real-world endurance. At 22, she’s already run a 50K ultra marathon, trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu for five years, and drawn thousands of digital sketches that span from gothic video game characters to serene watercolor-like landscapes.
How do you feel being homeschooled affects your upbringing or your art?
It was very isolated. It has its pros and cons, but definitely very isolating. But that gave me a lot of time to really work on my art because that's all I had.
It sounds as though you have more of a negative opinion of being home-schooled. Would you have done it differently if it were up to you?
Well, it depends. I think my experience with it was not great, but I think it also worked out pretty well for me, and I wouldn't have done very well in a public school setting.
Do you care to speak on some of the reasons why?
It really just depended on my parents. My mom was the one taking care of everything, and trying to homeschool five kids is very stressful. Her being stressed made it stressful for everyone else.
Where do you fit in the ranking of the five?
I'm the oldest.
How do you feel being the oldest has influenced your life or your art?
It's made me a little more responsible and disciplined. I've learned to look out for other people and take others into consideration.
Speaking of discipline, is that particularly fascinating or difficult for you, or a challenge?
No, I find discipline comes pretty easily to me because I like having a routine. I think I'm naturally like that. I like the structure and the difficulty that comes with it. I like being active… All of my hobbies outside of drawing involve me being active and having some sort of workout routine. So I do jiu-jitsu. I run, I lift. I'm just naturally more prone to wanting to move, I guess, and be active.
Jennifer Evans
How does the routine help other facets of your life, like your education or socializing?
I think it helps just to keep everything together. If I have a routine, I'm able to stay focused and move from one thing to the next without everything just falling apart.
Tell us about your art routine. How do you approach it? Do you just kind of do it every day?
I usually do it whenever I just have a little spare time, so I don't have much of a routine for my art.
There’s an old maxim that states that limitation fosters creativity. How do you feel about that, and do you feel like having everything else in your life be very disciplined and very structured helps your creativity?
I think so. It helps to have that structure that allows me to be freer and looser with my art.
Can you tell us about how you got into art?
It's a funny story. A little bit. I got into art because of this app called Wattpad, which normally is used for fan fiction and stuff like that, but there are people on there who would post their art. They'd make art books. And there was an artist there whose work I really liked, and she really inspired me to get into it. I can't remember their names. It's been almost a decade.
How do you feel about telling people that you kind of started doing art on Wattpad?
It's mildly embarrassing, but that's how I got my start. So it's whatever. There's a lot of fan art. It's mostly for Five Nights at Freddy's. And other weird fandoms that I was in.
How did your art progress from doing fan art to what you do now?
It started off as being a lot of what I started off doing, mostly traditional art. I started in my sketchbook, and then after a while, I moved on to see a lot more environmental work and started doing a lot more digital art. See, it mostly moved into different other fandoms for the entirety. And the entirety of my time as an artist, I've just jumped from various fandoms, and I think that kind of helped. I've progressed over time, jumping through different fandoms and everything. It's been weird.
What was the first application you used for digital art?
I think it was Manga Studio, which is an older version of Clip Studio. I think I tried it and didn't like it, but, yeah, that's my start.
What program do you use now?
I switch back and forth between Adobe Fresco and Critta. I like Critta because it has a lot more brushes and everything, a lot more features, but it doesn't have a time-lapse option. That's why I use Adobe Fresco because I can make reels. I can make reels of the time-lapse. So it's more content.
Jennifer Evans
Would you say your art nowadays is very content-related?
Yes. I try not to make art just so that I can have content, but I like having that time-lapse there so that I don't have to put a whole lot of thought into making more content. It's just already there.
How has growing on social media changed your feelings about your own work?
I think my account growth has made me more stressed about what I post. There's part of me that's, like, I want this to be good, but I've also learned that I don't have to post everything I draw. I can just make something, and it can be bad, and no one has to see it. I can keep that to myself.
Do you feel a certain obligation to post super regularly because of the algorithm?
Yes. I noticed recently that when I stopped posting, I regularly took a huge dip. And so I'm like, okay, maybe I want to get this backup, so I have to, yeah. But I try not to let it affect my work too much or my mentality about my work.
Do you feel pressured to make art ever?
I think social media is the only thing that makes me feel a little bit pressured, because sometimes I'm like, I have to make something. I need to post something today, but other than that, I don't really get pressured by it.
Would you say you have a healthy relationship with social media?
I think I do. Yeah. It's taken a long time to figure out how to have a healthy relationship with social media, but thankfully, other artists have gone through this and figured it out, so they say, ‘Hey, guys, do this. ’ I'm like: ‘All right, you all know this better than I do. ’
What are the things that you've done to have a healthy relationship?
It's important to take time off from it and not get too obsessed with the numbers.
Can you tell us about your inspiration?
I find a lot of inspiration in nature, so I like being out in the park. I like hanging out in the woods around my house. I get a lot of inspiration from just being outside.
Could you tell us a little about your creative process?
So my creative process is different for every drawing. It depends on what the piece is and what the mood is. For a lot of my nature drawings, I try to block out colors and shapes first, and then try to render things out and go into detail a little bit more. And then for a lot of my character designs, I try to block out something loose, a very loose sketch. So I'm not going in straight with just colors or shapes. I usually block things out with a pencil for character designs and then try to sharpen some lines and define the shapes. I then define the shapes better and go in for details like what I want the clothes to look like, what I want their armor and their weapons to look like… all that stuff. Yeah. I don't have much of a creative process. Again, it's kind of just, like, wing it and see what happens.
How do you believe you differ from other artists?
I don't think I differ from other artists. Yeah, I don't think I differ. I think I've had a lot of the same experiences artistically. I've gone through a lot of the same phases. A lot of artists, especially those starting with, like, fan art and anime. Yeah, I was looking
What would you say your truth is as a person?
I guess my truth is trying to just be adventurous, try to take opportunities in life, but at the same time, go with the flow. Things change a lot. You have to be prepared for whatever. Have a good time. You only get one chance at being alive. Enjoy it.
What would you say your truth is as an artist?
Not sure. My truth as an artist is just to draw pretty things. I like using this as an outlet, and I hope for it to one day be a career.
