ABOUT ME

I was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. For the first ten years of my life, my childhood was an odd one; I was mainly ill due to complications of being born with a brain hemorrhage, which affected my muscle coordination but luckily not my mind or imagination.

I was then placed in art therapy; when I could not, for the life of me manage to hold a pencil in class properly and my mother decided that art therapy would be a big help in muscle coordination. Since I was constantly ill during my childhood, my parents would always bring me books and comics with fantastic stories to pass the time while in bed, those stories inspired worlds of wonder that I would later try and covey in my drawings.

Batman helped me to never give up when my muscles would fail me in class, Horror stories allowed me to face my fears, and Fantasy tales made me push forward to get better in order to find worlds of Adventure in reality. My childhood was filed with stories of Jack London, R.L Stine, old Fairy tales, and stories of myths of the island I called home.

At age 10 we moved to Florida in the United States, where I continued to be a voracious reader and expanded to Sherlock Holmes, Conan the Barbarian, old world myths, monsters and Manga from Japan, Vampire Hunter D, Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop, just to name a few inspirations.

Trips to museums and to other states helped expand my imagination.  I continued to sketch any time I could, to my teacher’s dismay all through High School.

I wanted nothing more than to tell stories, artistically or otherwise; so in my final year in high school, I attended some classes at a nearby University of Tampa and loved the Writing for Comics class. Since then I have doggedly continued in my pursuit into Illustration and in 2006 I attended Ringling School of Art and Design.

When I graduated in 2010, I have created illustrations for Eco-manuals, commissions, portraits, self-published children books to expressive illustrations and more!

My name is Isadora Jimenez, what’s your story? Mind if I make a painting out of it? Careful it might come to life…