I'm a self taught artist and world builder.   I study natural sciences and apply what we know on subjects like biology, paleontology, geology and so on to create fictional worlds made to explore various possibilities that life can take to adapt to adverse environmental conditions or different kinds of selective pressures.   I also create alien civilizations with these tenets in mind, trying to give birth to plausible cultures with a history and ethics of their own, keeping in mind how such a culture could be born and what would influence these ideals in their society.