About | EditWithCami

OH,

wow!

Who is she?

Camille Bessette

Hi hi! My name is Camille Bessette. I am a digital creator living in

the San Diego County of California.

I’ve been drawing since I was a child and love doodling the world

around me.

Throughout my whole life, I’ve been inspired by various cartoons,

animes...and my spectacular pets.

When I was a child, my teacher assigned our class to make 1-2 drawings a

day in our journal.

Using the colors all around me, I found myself drawing The PowerPuffGirls, Brittany Spears, and characters that represented people in my life.

Soon there wasn’t a piece of paper without some kind of drawing on it.

I decided that this was what I loved. And I wanted to be an artist when I grew up!

As a kid, I feared lack of creativity and goals, and still do to this day on occasion.

I would complain about this issue a lot to my mom but she would say, “Only boring people get bored!”. I took this to heart because I feel it does have truth in it.

My imagination ran wild.

There were so many things I could learn, create, and innovate during my time of boredom.

At age 12, I started creating comics about my wonderful dog, Biscotti.

I turned him into an anime as he lived crazy adventures with his friends.

I spent a lot of my time filling up notebooks with anime versions of Biscotti.

And I wanted to turn him into digital art after browsing through my favorite website, Deviantart.

Fortunately, I already had Photoshop on my computer to my surprise.

I messed around with the program, watched a couple of tutorials online, and soon was scanning in my art and filling them in with color digitally.

Then I discovered a new passion of mine, which was creating videos and editing them. Officially, I later changed my mind on wanting to be an artist. Instead I wanted to be a video editor when I grew up.

I first started creating my own music videos and vlogs, which became a new normal for me. I also picked up on using the program, Sony Vegas Pro, and it taught me the foundation to where I am now.

I was raised by computers.

So discovering that I could create art and videos digitally became the new type of media that I enjoyed creating.

When I reached high school, I began to struggle with my mental health

and was diagnosed with bipolar1 disorder.

This changed my life moving forward as I went through the darkest time in my life.

Despite the new traumatic changes I was going through, art and making videos was always there for me as a coping skill and safe place.

I didn’t have many friends or a close support group growing up to rely on, so I spent a lot of my time alone drawing at the local library, or spending my Friday night's at home coming up with skits for a video.

I was very shy as a teenager, so I needed alone time when crowds came around.

In time, I got more stability of my mental health with healthier coping as I reached adulthood.

As a young adult, I worked countless minimum wage jobs. And they weren't fulfilling. I always dreamed of working in art or in post production, so why not do it now?

I constantly wondered, “what if it DIDN’T work?”

When instead, I want to start asking, “what if it DID work out?”