Encouraged by a father who loves machinery and design, the mostly self-taught artist Anna Dittmann strengthened her artistic ability by practicing digital art through web tutorials and sketchbooks and tips provided by her father. She also took a few traditional art classes in high school, then a painting teacher urged her to pursuit colleges. 

As a child, she wanted to recreate the world as she saw it and her love of nature, biology, and portraiture are recurring themes you can see throughout her work.

After being a professional artist, she paints with her own inspiration which comes from organic natural elements, mythology, history, movement and texture, lyrics and melodies, expressions, and color variations. 

“In general, I roughly sketch out a face, then look for reference. I tend to search for photos or take pictures of friends. My portraits are normally a composite of a few different images. For anatomy and surrounding elements, I'll compile various images on one document that I'll refer to while painting”, she said on her website.

You can see more on her website.