Hi, I'm Maria.

I like making different kinds of projects, mostly because I'm still figuring out what I actually enjoy. So if you look around this website and notice that everything seems to be going in slightly different directions... that's intentional. Sort of. I'm trying things out, seeing what sticks, and figuring out what I want to keep doing. This website itself is part of that process. I can't say I'm particularly proud of it yet, but it's better to have something imperfect than to spend forever chasing a version of it that I may never be satisfied with.

I've loved video games for as long as I can remember. My grandpa had a really old — but really cool at the time — PC back in the 2000s, the kind that looked more like a box than a computer, and that was probably my first real love.

*this isn't my exact pc but it looked smth like that, i took this pic from reddit, you get the idea

I somehow skipped the whole Wii and Nintendo phase and grew up as a PS baby, before eventually switching over to PC games when I got older. And I think games have always been more than just something I played. For a lot of people my age, they're something we grew up with. If you weren't playing them yourself, you were probably watching someone else play.

That had a bigger influence on me than I realised at the time. I originally wanted to make concept art for games, until I figured out that I wanted art to stay something I loved rather than something I had to turn into a profession. So what's the best way to make art for a kid who likes drawing and math?

still doodle sometimes

Right now, I'm mostly trying to figure out how you're supposed to get a job in this economy. It's a little stressful, especially when apparently every junior position wants three to five years of experienceyou to start working from the day you were born... which raises the obvious question of where exactly am I supposed to get those years of experience?