My Name is Eric Vico, but most of my Family likes to call me Flaco for certain reasons from when I was a child. I am a Traditional Artist of 11 years currently and a Digital Artist of 8 years, my Hobbies consist mostly of Art, working with my Father on flooring, and other activities outside of these in my spare time I share. How have I planned or already made a positive impact on the world or others based on my Artistic Pursuits will be explained here after this brief summary/introduction... ever since I was a child, I had an obsession with Stories, Film and even TV Series as well as Video Games, this massive obsession would often give me ideas of how I imagine or would interpret my own Stories inspired or based on them as they'd mostly be of my moral image/self being in the situation or conflict or events going on in said Series/Video Game/Scene, I was a weird child that had a huge love for Movies and Video Games and most of them were Cartoon related. So at 8 Yrs Old, I decided one day to draw what seemed to be revolutionary in my eyes and that was to draw a Stickman and improve how it looked by giving it a round body while also keeping the stick arms and legs, this was my first moment I changed something I was so used to seeing and thought was the biggest accomplishment and start into improving my Art-Style, once I kept doing that, I improved a lot over my years of drawing, what once went from a Stickman with a round body had become a full-on-original model/Art-Style and path that I would keep taking even today. I've improved so much in my Art that in 2016 I had begun my own Comic Series called the "Eric Shorts" which was a Comic Strip version of the FNAF Characters and even me and my Friends and other Characters from different series like Mario, Sonic and Kirby and more having a funny compilation in which I thought were funny. These Funny Comics would grow in popularity with my Friends (infamous) and would improve as I kept doing them, this also inspired my Friends to do their own comics of the same concept but in which they thought was better. And then, as I kept doing this Series, I had officially started my own Series that would take itself more seriously than the Funny Comics I made. This Comic Series that would go on for 32 Seasons in just 3/4 Years from 2015/2016 - 2018 would be called "Eric Heroes" which was a Series about Eric and his Friends going on Adventures and fighting evil and saving the World as always. This was mostly inspired by Sonic Heroes in which Eric was fast, Colton was the smarts, Daniel was the toughest, and Mateo was either or. Soon it'd grow even more characters the more friends I made on my path to working with this Series as it had been like a Dream come True, starting a Series that could inspire many around my School as I had worked with Art/Comics in my spare time during 3rd - 5th Grade. This Series would then end on a sad but memorable ending. Whenever I had finished the Series on that note, I was done with 5th Grade and moved on and had said that I'd be done with Art for a brief amount of time, it wasn't until I met a Good Friend of mines, Jovani during Summer School whom had introduced me to his ideas and was only a year or 2 Younger than me and was attending 5th or 4th Grade while I was prepped for 6th. His Ideas with my Art and introductions had led to me continuing doing Art and here I am now. I've improved a lot with my Art so far and still tend to make it my future to make Stories and Films to inspire many around the whole World by running an Animation/Art Studio of my own in the Future. How much of an Influence have you made of yourself or have brought onto others, you might ask? Well, I believe that I have influenced and inspired many people on my path to creativity and artistic ways as I have inspired my Friends to draw the same way I do and have brought a lot of attention around my School due to my skill in Art alongside entertaining others making Comics and just drawing whatever I did back then. I believe I had the biggest influence on many when I started Drawing and doing Art and was actually good at it around 8 Yrs Old in 3rd Grade, Art had been both a Major Skill and Major-Known Personality or as I’d like to call it, Known Icon around my School as I was probably the only Student (alongside many of my Friends whom had gained inspiration from my Art and tried interpreting my way of drawing in their own style or way) that was REALLY good with Art and interpreting Styles like FNAF, Sonic and many more when really I was only listening to “How to Draw” Videos on YouTube and looking at Images for Reference and to draw whatever I saw on my iPad at times (which is common with many Artists today) I never knew what tracing was and didn’t even know how to trace or what it meant so I mostly just spent my Childhood drawing whatever I saw on my Screen. I believe that my Influence on others have been inspiring and influential upon my Path in Drawing and doing Art. It’s common to know how many would see my Art once they find out I do Art and find that i’m good with it. Their Reaction never ceases to surprise me each and every time. Influence doesn’t only come from being original, it comes from an idea.