It is difficult for me to define myself but this is more or less my story

As a child I couldn't stand still, that's why my parents gave me the nickname "Monillo" or little monkey in English. I'm calmer now but they say the nickname to me from time to time and I think it looks funny on the logo. It would be amazing to see it one day on a real car vinyl :)

I grew up watching the internet from a very young age. I was fascinated by the stories that the multiple platforms offered me and how they showed me realities that had absolutely nothing to do with mine. At an early age and without remembering why, I got a Nintendo DS, which became one of the products to which I have dedicated the most time in my entire life. being compact and portable, and having no references because I was a child, it was for me the most incredible thing in the world. There was only one thing better than a Nintendo, and that was having a friend who had another and playing together. Since I was little I have always really enjoyed exploring the worlds that my Nintendo DS offered me. I consider that the aesthetics and taste that I have today are very influenced by those games, most of which are of Japanese origin, like a large number of my favorite vehicles.

By only having that portable console, while the rest of my friends had much more powerful consoles and with other very interesting titles and after inviting me to their homes to try those titles on eternal afternoons, I had no other option but to search for those titles on the internet or imagine about what they were about and their stories by myself. I even remember drawing a little animation of a game because I couldn't take it off. Over time and thanks to my parents I was able to have more powerful consoles and my curiosity to know the smallest details, which began with Mario games where I created my own narrative and could spend half an hour only in a virtual hallway. Little by little, game by game, I moved to the automotive world.

And how could I not?! I didn't have a driver's license but if a game allows me to modify even the smallest part of a car, I will literally spend hours trying to make it to my liking. In fact, I spent even more time trying to understand on my own the reason for each piece and its origin. The origin of each car, each brand, because some are better than others or at least appear to be better. That's where I think it all started. These heavy machines are so fascinating that I started looking for all the information I could and more. It is fascinating how much history there is behind a mass of iron, plastic and rubber. And it is especially more incredible to feel that without having even touched one of those legendary models that I had not even seen in real life. It was not about the actual model, but about what it could become.

At the same time that I asked my parents for Pokémon stuffed animals, little by little I was making a collection of models of my favorite cars, which I simply had lying around from when I was little, stuffed in drawers and I was discovering those days when I was bored and I had not given them importance. Among them a Jaguar E-type convertible of a fairly large scale. The hood came off and it had all kinds of details. There is something about this car that has not stopped arousing passions in car lovers since it hit the streets.

By chance and motivated in equal parts by my friends and the boredom possibly of being grounded, I started drawing things that I liked, mainly video game things such as characters or inside jokes from situations that had occurred virtually with my friends and so on, and as the time went by, I tried drawing some cars that I had driven in the virtual world or had seen in one of those YouTube videos. Completely disastrous sketches, but nevertheless in my head there was an idea in each of them, a vision that went beyond the original bodywork, which I could not reach due to lack of skill. However, I spent many hours drawing until I had results that seemed satisfactory to me and when I finished I uploaded them to Instagram where I had minimal feedback, but it also made me see what other people were doing, inspiring me to create more.