I’m so glad you asked! My name is Ysabel and I’m an illustrator with Aphantasia. 'What the hell is Aphantasia’ I bet you’re asking yourself (unless you know me personally in which case I’m sure i’ve talked your ear off about it at length). Aphantasia is the inability to visualise in your minds eye, to picture something using your ‘imagination’.

‘Sounds really inconvenient to be an artist that lacks the ability to visualise’ I bet you’re thinking, but actually - it’s not something I knew was ‘a thing’ until I was about 26 years old. I found out I have aphantasia by watching a YouTube video about an animator who has it, and I was floored by the realisation that people are actually seeing things in their minds eye, and I can’t. I mean, It is FOR SURE something you can live without as an artist because I’ve been drawing stuff and making pictures since I was able to pick up a pencil but let me tell you, when I found out other people were actually able to ‘see’ stuff with their minds eye - I FREAKED OUT BIG TIME.