Matthew Ryan Page
Artist | Hobbyist | Digital Art

United States

I drew a few pictures when I was a kid.

When I was 15 (around 1998), I found the website TeamArtail and began to draw Sonic and Sonic fan characters. I kept drawing through high school for some reason.

From 2000 to 2005 I got a Drawing degree from University of Central Florida. Didn't know what else I wanted to do, man.

During this period I began to hit the Florida anime cons (Jacon, Metrocon, AFO, Megacon, etc), where I managed to repeatedly break even by selling prints.

In 2005 I briefly worked for an animation studio called Humouring the Fates. I'm talking, SUPER brief. Like a few weekends. Was in Tampa and I didn't wanna move there. Also they paid their lead animator like $10/hr (not enough for a lead animator imo) and he was pretty good. Also, they still owe me like a hundred bucks, but who cares.

2005-2011 nothing much happened. I worked dumb jobs and hated life and learned how to have a small but close friend group. (This is important since I was always pretty bad at starting and maintaining successful relationships.)

2012 (current!): Moved to Austin, got a job at Samsung Austin Semiconductor, and I'm trying (arguably!) to rekindle my art career in my small amount of spare time.