As a young kid, I was addicted to playing Modern Warfare 2 on my Xbox 360. After finding YouTube and watching other gamers "trickshot" to make cool videos out of their clips, I wanted to do the exact same thing. However, after countless hours of trying, I was never good enough to join a team. I knew that there had to be another way… and this is when I found out about design.

After teaching myself Photoshop, I started making YouTube backgrounds for gamers and learning new techniques by watching design videos on YouTube. In a few months, I was leading design teams Text, AE7, and High, while entering competitions to earn small amounts of cash. Once high school started in 2012, design slowed down for me and I started to focus on other things.

In 2016, my senior year of high school, I started J ASPECT, posting procreate graphics and logos on Instagram for fun. Throughout my college years, I once again put design on the back burner (mainly due to baseball), but continued to strengthen my design skills while working for clients on the side and running an online gear store for my friends, family, and followers to purchase shirts from.