| Maly's drawing-tastic art survey |
| What is your favorite subject to draw? | foreign or historical cultures; horses and other animals; kids |
| What is your most common choice in 2-d media? | watercolor |
| Anything you refuse to draw? | mh... pornographic scenes I guess, though it never came up. |
| Real anatomy or cartoon physics? | realistic, but stylized |
| Which is more important - solid inking skills or solid color theory? | Not sure. Does one need to understand color theory in order to apply it right? |
| Photoshop or PSP? Illustrator or Painter? | PSP. Photoshop is twice as good but twenty times as expensive. |
| Markers - Prismacolor or Tria? | Copic and Trias |
| Paints - oils, acrylics, or watercolors? | watercolors and acrylics, pastel chalks |
| Have you ever done a stippling project outside of art class? | outside? big no. |
| Ever imitate a popular style of art? (anime, disney, comic book...) | I try not to, though there's a certain graphic novel influence in my style. |
| How would you define your "style?" | illustrative? |
| What is one area of drawing that you need to improve in? | improvisation |
| When did you start drawing as a hobby? (we all drew when we were little) | don't remember. kindergarten, probably. |
| What kind of sketchbook do you have? Brand? Size? How old is it? | I find sketchbooks stifling. I use loose sheets of paper on a clipboard. |
| How many sketchbooks have you had previous to this? | two or three, but I never completed any of them. |
| How many sketchbooks do you go through in a year? | -- |
| #2 yellow pencil or a clicky pencil? | sharpable clicky ones. |
| What kind of eraser do you use? | a very soft formable gum eraser, and a normal soft one |
| Who are your artistic influences? | Derib (Belgian comic artist). And I think Nita Engle's book on watercolor technique is awesome (see below) |
| What books would you reccomend to aspiring artists? | 'How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself' by Nita Engle; The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook'; 'Figure Drawing Without A Model' |
| Do you have any favorite online tutorial sites? | nope |
| What is the most money you've ever made on one drawing / illustration / painting? | skipping this one. |
| What do you hope to accomplish with your art? Do you want to go anywhere with it in life? | I want to improve. Other than that, I don't want to overthink the whole thing. |
| Finally, why do you draw? | I think I started drawing because I was a daydreamer as a kid, and I wanted to be able to see the little scenes that played out in my head. Okay, the money is kind of a factor, too... |
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