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My name is Renate Potter and I'm an illustrator from the Netherlands.

I had a lot of different jobs before I decided to chase my dream to become an illustrator. Most of those jobs were involved in education. I'm a sucker for Ancient History and in my childhood I always wanted to be an archaeologist, but I wasn't that good in science so I gave up on that dream.

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I always loved fantasy stories like fairytales, folktales and the like. I could watch Disney movies (or Gibli movies or any other decent animation studio) for hours and painted on all the walls of my bedroom that weren't occupied by books or furniture.