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It would be so great if Pachycephalosaurus had, like, a little baseball cap hanging off its domed head. And a baseball bat in its tiny hands. Do its hands even meet in the front?
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I'd take a plane to Paris, but by the time I got there it would be time to go home again. :(
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Man, this was a hard question! I'd have to go with the one I've liked since sixth grade: Sailor Saturn. She's, like, borderline autistic--not that I am, but that appealed to me as a kid.
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Drawing fanart for a few hours helps, at least for me. If you're working off an already established framework of what to draw (and/or what style to draw it in), you can relax and enjoy the simple act of drawing--especially if you've been agonizing about how everything you're drawing sucks (I do that a lot). If that's not creative enough for you, put a twist on it. Draw Jimmy Corrigan Art Deco style.
Speaking of which, I find it fun and inspiring to mash up genres/aesthetics to see what happens--hip-hop and sci-fi, Looney Tunes and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, glam rock and Russian Constructivism. That might juice you up enough to get you through the worst of the art block.
If you can't draw because you're feeling melancholy for no reason, go out for a walk or read a good book--something quick-moving and dramatic and satisfying, genre fiction preferred. It usually drains my emotional and creative batteries for the rest of the day but the next morning I wake up refreshed and ready to draw again. -
Oh my god. Um. I can't even, like.
I might have to say Jason's sense of pacing. That guy has such an exquisite sense of the passage of time from panel to panel. Or, or, or, maybe Chris Ware's precision. Or Jim Woodring's... whatever it is that makes him so amazing. Or Joann Sfar's charm in storytelling. S-sorry, I can't decide. -
Overwhelmingly Alphonse Mucha--you can't see the influence as much nowadays, but my sense of composition comes almost entirely from him and Henry J Ford, who illustrated the Andrew Lang Fairy Books I used to read as a kid. Recently I've been looking to Leonetto Cappiello for more dynamic compositions though.
Let's see... Charles Burns got me into slick-looking feathered inking, for sure. There's also a lot of influence from Arthur Rackham and the Pre-Raphaelites, though that's mostly digested at this point, so you can't really see it. A little bit from Paul Pope, a little bit from Yuko Shimizu. I kinda maybe sorta stole my Asian faces from Hellen Jo (sorry Hellen!).
I admire Chris Ware and Jim Woodring tremendously but I've never been able to figure out how to incorporate them as influences. They're so perfect and complete in and of themselves that I can't figure out how I'd pull out the parts I like. -
Yeah! The tables are exactly the right height in relation to the chairs, and the seats are padded, and the natural light is just right. It's perfect. I don't go every day--just when I need to work--but if you drop by and see me there, I am always glad to chat!
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Double the recipe and I'll like you the best.
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You know, I had this tooth? And it got really itchy sometimes?
Anyways, I had to get a root canal. -
Um, well... I'm not sure? I made a website, I met some people, and eventually a trickle of work started coming in? I guess I'd advise going to cons and straight-up giving your mini-comics to artists you admire. That worked out for me.
Gah, sorry I can't be more helpful--I really have no idea. -
YEAH ALL RIGHT! DO IT!
Ups: Low cost of living and a good community is the major upside. Cheap rent compared to other major cultural centers: I'm paying $550 for a downtown studio apartment and I know people who've found nice rooms in decent areas for $300-$400, easy. Great beer, great public transit, great urban planning. Lots of cartoonists, obviously. Good cheap food, though I'm not sure what the hardcore $150/dinner foodie scene is like, or if it even exists at all in Portland. Lots of coffee shops, food carts, etc.
Downs: Unemployment/underemployment is the major downside. If you come, you should consider having: 1) specialized job skills (the competition to be a barista or a waitress/waiter is CUTTHROAT), 2) a job already lined up, or 3) a decent-to-thriving freelance career. If you have friends in Portland, see if they can help you nab a job--it's pretty hard otherwise.
It's also very white--not necessarily in a bad way, just in a "You occasionally cry a tear or two over the lack of decent Chinese restaurants" way. -
In sixth grade, I decided I was going to learn how to draw, so my first act was to copy the pictures off a knockoff Sailor Moon pillowcase that I had. I couldn't trace it because the fabric was too soft, which probably set a good precedent.
Then I drew Pokemon and Magic Knight Rayearth for another year, working off How To Draw Pokemon tutorials and screencaps of MKR. And then I joined Elfwood. I'm not making any of this up.
My favorite amphibian is the axolotl! They look so friendly, right? -
Yes, but only if you put out.
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A cat! Then I'd, like, carve out its insides and cut holes in its skin so it could be a catbus!
Well, a catbus carcass.
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If this is you...
1/4 cup olive oil
1 pound dried spaghetti
2 tablespoons butter
4 ounces Pecorino Romano cheese, finely grated
1 1/2 teaspoon finely ground black pepper
Cook spaghetti in well-salted water in a large, wide-bottomed pot. Drain spaghetti, reserving 1 1/2 cups of pasta cooking water. Dry out your pot, then heat the olive oil over high heat until almost smoking. Add drained spaghetti and 1 cup of reserved pasta water.
Add butter, 3 ounces cheese and ground pepper and toss together with tongs. Serve immediately, sprinkling with reserved cheese and an extra grind or two of black pepper.
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Hmm. Good question. "Cannot predict now."
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I haven't, actually, but I'd do it, I'd be totally glad to do it. I was talking over the idea of making a pornographic anthology with a couple other cartoonists at Emerald City--they were probably joking/smashed, but I was serious.
Are you going to mix porn? I mean, you have your porn for dudes and your porn for ladies. Occasionally I see a hentai blog scanlate a yaoi volume or two and it's always weird--I've never seen them peacefully coexist in equal amounts. (It's probably not fair for me to draw the distinction along gender lines since there are plenty of ladies who like porn for dudes, though less so the other way around, but I feel like there's a reason raunchy romance novels are so lucrative and the m/m fiction market is growing. My feeling is that women who don't like porn should try porn/erotica created by women and aimed at women, which has a much better chance of turning their crank but takes a little searching.)
Whoa, uh, didn't mean to digress. Whatever, I'd be drawing lesbian tennis players in space. -
Pentel pocket brush pen! Then I scan the drawing and color everything digitally. Flood fill, flood fill, lazy as can be.
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Angie Wang’s Bio
I once had a nose full of snot.
