I love to draw and tell stories through drawings.

I've published some comics, I have a series of autobiographical strips (the toscomics) and I just launched my biggest project: a 300 graphic novel "A Canção Fantasma" (Ghost Song) by Darkside Book.

I have been working for 15 years as a freelancer illustrator for books, magazines, agencies, companies, etc. I also work as a tattoo artist in a studio in Porto Alegre since 2017.

Like every child I loved to draw. Being apartment kids, my parents really encouraged the arts in me and my siblings. We all loved to draw: we created games that used drawing and stories: universes with crazy characters and fun stories. Only I followed the professional path of the arts, but my brothers still draw today. Click here to see my younger brother's work: games he creates from scratch (the story, the drawings, the programming, etc).

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I ended up studying Architecture, because I liked to draw and I thought I didn't have what it took to be an artist. That word “artist” carried a lot of weight that I thought was not for me: how am I going to put myself on the same level as my idols? I didn't think I was “artistic” enough, the imposter syndrome was always very strong in me. 

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It was only after college, when I officially started working with illustration and self-publishing my comics, that I was able to see myself as an artist too.

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Comics never left my life: since I was a child I read a lot (due to my father's influence) and as a child I wrote and drew my own comics. Then I grew up and stopped, maybe the imposter syndrome again or just an exaggerated self-criticism: but I only returned to work with comics as an adult, already over 25 years old.

I started posting my toscomics comic strips back in the blogging days. The name toscomics came from the need to be very unpretentious. 

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Finding an audience and participating in comic book events has given me a lot of incentive to keep publishing, even when there isn't much financial success. It's hard to make a living from comics, it's difficult to even earn some money from comics in Brazil and even so we have an intense production here, just go to any festival to see it. I myself never intend to stop.

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In 2017 I decided to take my drawings to a new support: the skin. I was lucky to find amazing people who encouraged me a lot, both colleagues and clients and today tattooing has become a source of income and pride: I love leaving my drawings on people.

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In all my works I try to bring humor and lightness. The visual  narrative is very important to me.  

Want to work with me? Just write me at samantafloor2@gmail.com