Carly was born in the small town of Grand Cash, Alberta where, at a young age, he took up drawing and painting inspired by a local artist and family friend Essen Gale. Rob moved to Calgary Alberta when he was 7 and continued to draw any chance he could get. The margins of most of his school text books were filled with cartoon doodles. The idea of caricature was introduced to him during high school social class, finally giving a name to the cartoon portraits of people he liked drawing. It was at that age that he had to answer the big questions teens get asked, “what do you want to do for the rest of your life”. He decided to pursue an education in art and attended Alberta College of Art and Design (now Alberta University for the Arts) where he obtained a Bachelor’s of Design Degree with a major in Illustration in 2009.