Raymont D. Youngblood is a Digital Freelance illustrator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Born in 1990, he’s had an eye for anime style art ever since he was 4 years old, drawing “Sonic the Hedgehog”.  Always a dreamer, Raymont has had one goal in life since 1994: To become a cartoonist. This dream has been his driving motivation for most of his life, and while many children have multiple dreams and passions, Raymont seemed to only have this one dream. Through one of his created character designs, Raymont was able to find his art name: “RaiZArts”, literally “Ray’s Arts”, and has started going by this name since 2016.   Fast forward to 2021, RaiZArts, who had been freelancing in a small capacity since 2016, finally found the courage to hop into his passion full-time and became a full time creative. This role has included the following incredible opportunities: An outpouring of amazing commissions, most recently in 2021 he’s done work for: Leonard Robinson (Insecure, Wild N’ Out), TeaMarrr (Insecure, Atlantic Records), RDCWorld1 (YouTube, HBO Max) He’s worked alongside Pittsburgh Poet/Marvel Writer, Yona Harvey on a collaborative comic project: “Something in the Water” which was a part of the Horror Anthology, “Dead Beats Anthology”. Took part in several art shows: “MindBlown: Precious Art in the City of Pittsburgh”, “Writing on the Walls: Mixing the Arts of Spoken Artistry and Visual Artistry”, and “BlackQ Haus Collection” (The first Black-Owned Gallery in the City of Pittsburgh).  Served on the board for Pittsburgh’s Cartoon Museum, “Toonseum” alongside Marcel Walker (Chutz-Pow). Teaching Digital Comic Arts at Sarah Heinz House (Boy and Girls Club) and most currently Shadyside Academy. RaiZArts has seen so much success in his students that he now offers private classes to elementary and middle school aged students to help develop their artistic skills on a one-on-one basis, with stellar results thus far.  RaiZArts is inspired by the works of Hiromu Arakawa (FullMetal Alchemist) and the combined works of Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima (Sonic the Hedgehog). He also is inspired by the works of Tetsuya Nomoura and the designs that he has created for the Kingdom Hearts franchise most notably. His style is a combination of Sonic, Kingdom Hearts and FullMetal Alchemist and he takes pride in creating something new from these iconic styles of artwork. Among his goal to become a cartoonist, he has been working at releasing his own American Manga-Style novel, “Twilight Angel”. He believes that this story of two angelic brothers can change the way that American-inspired anime art is viewed by a western audience. If you’ve been following the journey of RaiZArts thus far, then you know that he will also achieve this goal too, especially now that he’s had the support of so many on his artistic adventure!