I'm from Belo Horizonte, a brazilian city, and was born in 1973.

My art learning began very early, in a self-taught way. I gathered all the information and books I could to understand the basics about the illustration art. In particular, I was always attracted by comics ­ specially the horror stories that we had aplenty here in Brazil.

I started working with book illustration part time in 1993, doing comic
strips and commercial illustrations for companies. That allowed me to get
contact to the printing systems, as well as several publishing processes. It also made me learn how to draw, ink and color my own work.

In 1997, after doing tests through an agency in Brazil, I got my first close
contact with the American Comics Industry, through a Comic Convention that took place in my town. There were big names as Luke Ross, Serpieri and the great Will Eisner. This was a crucial point in my carrier, when I got to talk to Eisner and get some feedback about my work.

Although I was pretty comfortable doing inks, I always wanted to put my pencils into work, and whenever I got the chance, and the time frame allowed, I would take small pencil works, just to get familiar with the media. After a while, I got my first gig as penciler doing pinups for Teen Titans. After that, I started getting more and more pencil work, and never stopped ever since. Elektra, Outsiders, Emma Frost, Witches, She Hulk, Star Wars, Red Sonja, Freshmen, Serenity, Conan, Kull, among a lot others are some of the titles I worked in. I¹ve also done some special projects, like the ³Who wants to be a Superhero² where I got to work with Stan Lee.

In terms of reference, I have some notable influences in terms of line and behavior. Some of them are more distinctive: Will Eisner, John Buscema, Barry Smith, Mark Shultz, Frazetta... There¹re so many masters that I always looked up to.