Hello!

Im Wani

I’m an artist and visual storyteller, currently pursuing a Bachelor's in Illustration. For the past six years, I’ve been exploring the arts and learning more about what is important to me in art and how to visually express what interests me. As I'm still a student, I am always improving.

Though I’ve always been an artist, I didn't realize it. It wasn’t until 2019 that I truly embraced it as part of who I am. In 2023, I committed to growing my craft and grounding myself in the fundamentals. By 2025, I had become even more immersed in art, learning just how powerful creativity can be in shaping how we see ourselves and the world around us.

In 2026, I discovered my direction artistically and began pursuing it within my work.

I want to explore and express the tension between ruin and perseverance, the belief that even in collapse, something deeply human persists. To to paint in a way that makes those who look at it pause and reflect on the work and on themselves.

I am interested in atmosphere, psychological depth, and subtle narratives that linger beneath the surface of an image. Whether working in oils or digital mediums, I aim to approach each piece as both study and wonder.

I developed this interest in artistic direction through confronting fear, loss, and uncertainty within my own life. Art and contemplation became a way to face that which unsettles me and to turn that into something meaningful.

I am especially drawn to dark fantasy, medieval landscapes, and dystopian futures- not for their despair, but for their brutal honesty. Worlds shaped by decay often reveal the raw forms of connection, courage and endurance. Influences include Dark Souls, Berserk, Blade Runner, and Attack on Titan.

Alongside artists such as Yuumei, MOEBIUS, Sui Ishida, Stephen Alekseen, Nicholas Delort, Even Mehl Amudsen, Alex Ross, Makoto Yukimura, Takehiko Inoue, Kentarou Miura, John Martin, Adam Duff, and Arnold Rocklin.

I am committed to mastering the fundamentals: light, form, color, texture, and composition. Growth is central to my practice. Each piece is part of a larger study- of craft and of self.

The worlds I will eventually create- whether apocalyptic, fantastical, or intimate are deeply personal. Yet they are built as spaces for others to enter. I hope my work offers not escape, but recognition: the quiet understanding that even in broken places, there is movement, memory and the will to move forward.

But for now, I am the simple, everyday university student who is working every day towards making my artistic dream a reality. I am no master yet, but one day I hope I will be. But for right now, I hope you continue to come along with me as I learn what it means to create.