Question 1: How has art impacted your life? And how does art make you feel?
“My start was probably imitating paleo artists, by then I was just interested in dinosaurs and monsters plus drawing quickly became one of the only things I was better than most at.”
“Later it was the need to somehow express my love for pop culture, especially video games. With time I got more interested in art itself and became more its own thing rather than a way to reproduce something else. I like my art when the process is fun and I’m succeeding in a technical sense on whatever I want to do.”
Question 2: What made you want to get into art? And what makes your art different from others?
“As I said, basically dinosaurs, I’m not sure what makes me different, I’m not sure what makes me different. I have a split of fine arts and comic/anime education but many people do…One thing for sure, unless you’re growing on an atelier under strict control, things that are particular of your own will start to appear even if you don’t want them.”
Question 3: What’s one lesson you would give to people who want to start to do art?
“Start drawing what you like and don’t look back. That comes before anything else.”
Question 4: What are some of your favorite artists of all time? And how do they inspire you to keep making fantastic art consistently?
“My first ever try at anime was imitating the style of the Ranma TV series (not Rumiko’s manga) and I think you can still tell on the faces.”
“When I was more serious about illustration, Bengus, and Kinu Nishimura were my main influences they shaped a whole generation of designers with their work on Street Fighter and others which might be one reason why my female drawings often look overly muscular for their archetype nowadays I study a lot of Studio Trigger when I feel like my shapes are off and I fill my page with Studio Trigger stuff and quickly feel the improvement. Also, Akihito Yoshitomi’s YouTube channel helped me a lot, it’s mostly real-time drawing and just seeing his workflow is inspiring.”
“I have many other influences, lots of them from the fine arts but that would be a handful, haha.”
Question 5: How do you come up with ideas for original characters to draw? And how long does it usually take you to finish one art piece?”
“ Normally it comes up with monthly challenges that the prompt is so basic you have to twist it somehow to have fun. Due to the kind of brand I aim for in my account, when confronted with a simple idea no matter if it’s a monster, a concept, or a kind of furniture, the steps are.”
- Turn it into a woman
- Make it either hot or a visual gag
“I know for sure painting + inking is normally around 2-4 hours since I film that and if working with daylight you need to control the time but no idea how much it takes for everything else.”
Question 6: What makes drawing fun for you?
“The most fun I’ve ever had is with the brainstorming of ideas and small sketches, especially if it’s something with a plot like a comic just quickly seeing things come to life is amazing. The other thing is just experiencing a good workflow when you have a degree of mastery over a technique, very satisfying.”
Question 7: What are the purpose and goals behind your art? And what do you want it to mean and symbolize?
“The priority is to have fun, having fun experiencing art itself, the techniques and the creativity. There’s not a particular meaning for the whole body of my work, some pieces are allegorical, some are just a visual pun or a play on words, some are decorative, and some are just horny but I think the point in common is that most are a spin on something and drawn as well as I can.”
