While she certainly enjoys getting paid to draw cool stuff for other people, her largest project to date would bring her focus back to fantasy art and entirely original creations. In 2016, Samantha celebrated the release of her first coloring book, Quest, through Blue Star Coloring. Quest functions as an art book with several full color watercolor illustrations, a coloring book with pages ranging from beginner to expert-level, and, perhaps most notably, as a wordless narrative. Split into three acts, a forgotten fairy tale told through images alone unfolds over 40 pages of fauns, fairies, monsters, and an epic quest of grace and daring.

In 2017, Samantha chose to step away from contract and commissioned works to focus on personal projects, including her Gatchaman Origins fan comic. It might seem an odd leap from Fantasy Art to a 1970’s Anime, however, the artist herself would argue that this old anime is what sparked her interest in drawing characters from the beginning. And who’s to say bird themed super heroes aren’t fantasy?

Samantha currently resides in central Wisconsin with her partner and their two cats. There she spends the majority of her time in her studio where she runs both the business and creative sides of her art.