Valerie Ryan is a freelance digital and cartoon artist from Vancouver BC, Canada. Starting from the age of 9, she has been drawing her interests ranging from Disney movie characters to Anime fanart and all sorts of fantasy and cartoon imagery. Valerie is a simple woman with a realistic attitude and a funloving carefree spirit. Through the years, she has aspired to take courses to master in cartooning and digital artwork in hopes of becoming an art professional in the near future. Until then she works through her homepage called "Tazmaa's Studio" as a freelance artist specializing mainly in anime artwork. Her expirience in freelancing has taught her many new skills and offered the expirience of producing art for a variety of people with different tastes and expectations. Valerie is always happy to try something new and couldn't be happier of her place in the world producing art for everyone to enjoy.