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... CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!
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I don't know if I could ever set my mind to something like that, because my attention is split by writing. So I start working on improving my drawing but then end up back scribbling stories before I've gotten very far. That's happened a few times.