Favorite visual artist Vincent van Gogh, John Singer Sargent, Lucian Freud, Claude Monet, Willem de Kooning Favorite movies Master and Commander, Yes Man, A Beautiful Mind, Billy Elliot, Shaun of the Dead Favorite TV shows Doctor Who, The IT Crowd, Merlin, Touch, Sherlock, QI Favorite bands / musical artists The Cranberries, Coldplay, The Beatles, Glasvegas, Arctic Monkeys, Björk, 54•40, The Kooks, U2, New Order, Queen, Rufus Wainwright, The Strokes Favorite books The Protector of the Small quartet, Artemis Fowl series, Harry Potter series, The Shakespeare Stealer series, Life of Pi, Airman, Ella Enchanted Favorite writers Tamora Pierce, Eoin Colfer, Yann Martel, Gail Carson Levine, William Butler Yeats Tools of the Trade Pencil, paper, Photoshop CS6, Wacom Cintiq 12WX, acrylic paint, oil paint, oil pastel, chalk pastel, charcoal Other Interests Acting, singing, writing, drawing, reading