Once upon a time, there was an artist named Lauralien (Laura + Alien). She has been drawing her whole life, and she spent two years in college studying fine art, but didn't really know what kind of career she wanted. Everyone else knew: She should make art for video games, but once she learned the definition of the term "crunch", she decided that she was fine with just playing video games instead of making them.

So she collects a humble salary for her mediocre Web Design + Development skills. In her spare time, she does worldbuilding: Inventing fictional lands, species, and cultures, and illustrating the results of that process.

Her ideal version of herself would find a way to turn her worldbuilding endeavors into a livable income. In a more realistic scenario, she would enjoy spending no more than 40 fairly-compensated hours a week as a Fantasy Concept Artist.

She does not want AI anywhere near her, or her creative process.
She does NOT condone or release the contents of this gallery for the purposes of AI training, but is aware of the futility of such a statement.
She believes that tech bros and everyone enabling them have never known the meaning of creativity, and likely somehow skipped the part of childhood where they should have developed it. If you are insulted by the previous sentence, you may be a tech bro, and your existence only gives her more motivation to continue rejecting you.