Grown in an odd family, my imaginary world has always been stimulated. My favourite games were to create stories, to draw and craft: my interest for art is evident from my earliest years. When I was 6 years old, I began school in a music concentration. Five years of violin and four years of guitar later, I totally give up music to dedicate myself to my true passion: drawing.
After graduating with a science profile in high school, I completed a Graphic Arts college degree at the Ahuntsic College of Montreal. Meanwhile, part time jobs at Omer de Serres and Royal Photo (as well as a florist and children face painter) allowed me to learn new abilities related to my field: plastic arts and photography.

Some notable mentions during these years would be my participation to the 2003 Sevrage Show, in collaboration with Acti-Menu and the "Quit to win!” challenge as well as the carry out of an anti-tobacco photographic exhibition for this event. In 2004, one of my pictures wins the first place of the "Quebec Institute of Graphic Communications” calendar contest. More of my pictures were finalists of the same contest which owed me a $200 cash prize awarded by the Institute. During my last schooling year, I took my stage at “Les Kréateurs” advertisement studio. In 2005, collaboration with the "Canadian Post Employees Foundation” allowed me to create a few promotional pieces like the Foundation logo, which is now used all over the province.

At the end of my schoolship I quickly developed a self-employed carrier by creating my own graphic design agency, Rubymoon Design. Added to some important clients such as le Cégep de Granby - Haute-Yamaska, la Table de Concertation des Aînés de l’île de Montréal, la Commission Scolaire de Ste-Hyacinthe  and  le Centre d’Aide Communautaire Anjou, a regular collaboration with Nextmoov Communication Factory, an internationally known Montreal advertisement agency (now called Tank), gave me the opportunity to work on big projects (Place Montreal Trust, Softimage, Vircom, etc.)  as well as to acquire more experience on the market.

Strong of this background I proceeded to realize my dream to become a tattoo artist. In 2007, I began to study Visual Arts at Sherbrooke University to improve my skills than in 2008, in association with Daniel Bombardier, I finally became owner of my own high-quality tattoo parlour, ADN Studio. In 2008, Rubymoon gets bigger with the integration of the RubyCherry online shop, presenting a line of products featuring my tattoo flavoured artwork.

 
   
 
     
   
   

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