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Post by Beth on Feb 25, 2013 14:33:12 GMT -5
We've got an 'Ask the Author' thread for you to pose questions to Will but if you have questions for Suze and Sarah, feel free to ask them.
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Post by Will on Feb 25, 2013 14:37:14 GMT -5
I have a question for Suze! I remember a four-panel strip of yours about trying to describe a hat you bought, or nearly bought -- I think it has you waving your arms about before concluding it was just 'furry' -- maybe you can find the comic I mean! Next to the comic was a photo of you doing those 'trying-to-describe-a-hat' gestures with your hands.
Do you also look in the mirror or take photos, or see how it feels to stand in a certain way, when you're drawing MSCSI?
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Post by Beth on Feb 25, 2013 15:01:14 GMT -5
This is for both Suze and Sarah but how hard is it to change or adapt your style to the different projects you're working on?
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Post by Suze on Feb 25, 2013 16:00:10 GMT -5
Here's the comic Will mentioned! That was a fun one. I do self-references quite a bit, with the help of my years-old webcamera; The reference folder on my computer has a lot of pictures of me trying out hand poses and facial expressions. Occasionally I'll get my patient husband to help me out as well by taking a photo of me (if I need a full pose) or holding his arms/hands a certain way long enough for me to sketch. As for Beth's question: Generally I don't have a problem with style adaptation. I've been lucky enough to always work with clients who let me do my own thing style-wise, and I'm flexible enough within my own range of styles that one of them ends up right for the job. If someone approached me for a job but didn't like the kind of things I'd done up til that point, I'd wonder why they'd asked me in the first place.
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Post by Sarah on Feb 25, 2013 19:59:28 GMT -5
This is for both Suze and Sarah but how hard is it to change or adapt your style to the different projects you're working on? At this point in my artistic journey, I don't find it hard at all!  My Ph.D. thesis was a great exercise in working in other people's styles; I had to channel Jack Kirby, Carmine Infantino and the DC Animated Universe style, among others. It started out a challenge, but turned into a real learning experience--I can totally understand why a lot of fine art courses give assignments to copy from the Old Masters! |
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Post by Will on Feb 26, 2013 14:22:16 GMT -5
Question for Sarah. I suggested that the cover for issue #1 should be reminiscent of early 1990s Vertigo -- Dave McKean's work for Sandman, for instance.
Which particular references did you use, and what work particularly influenced your work on the cover? The credits script looks particularly 'Sandman' to me.
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Post by Beth on Feb 27, 2013 8:35:40 GMT -5
Suze, do you base the characters on anyone? Like, would Will say Cat looks like Claire Danes crossed with Kirsten Dunst and then you'd work off photos of them, or do you just use your imagination?
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Post by Will on Feb 27, 2013 10:05:15 GMT -5
Yeah I have another question for Suze. (I didn't describe Cat as a cross between anyone and anyone else, as far as I remember).
Your first drawings of Cat do not look 100% like your most recent drawings of Cat -- she was originally more doe-eyed and a bit Disney, but in the comic art and the bonus sketch, she has a consistent (different) look -- kind of oval-faced, open-faced, well-scrubbed, not exactly glam but more 'nice', pleasant in her appearance.
Have you evolved the distinctive look of Cat since you first drew a character sketch of her?
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Post by Suze on Feb 27, 2013 10:06:12 GMT -5
It's varied pretty widely depending on the character. Kit and Kay, for example, had already been designed by Clay so I've been working from his original designs. Later we'll meet Connie, for whom Will specifically said he'd envisioned the look of Grace Jones, a prominent model from the 80s. Kyla Flyte is a good example of half/half; the direction given was a 'Britney Spears style' pop star, but beyond that I was free to design her look. So I looked up Britney and various other pop-stars for inspiration, rather than to draw directly from.
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Post by Will on Feb 27, 2013 10:20:43 GMT -5
Actually, Kit and Kay were originally designed by Jen Vaiano, and modified by Clay! So they have been through three interpretations already.
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Post by Suze on Feb 27, 2013 12:45:30 GMT -5
Cool! Thanks for the correction and the info |
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Post by Sarah on Mar 10, 2013 18:36:00 GMT -5
Question for Sarah. I suggested that the cover for issue #1 should be reminiscent of early 1990s Vertigo -- Dave McKean's work for Sandman, for instance. Which particular references did you use, and what work particularly influenced your work on the cover? The credits script looks particularly 'Sandman' to me. I kept a tab open with a Google image search for "Sandman McKean" every time I worked on the cover. I have it open right now, actually! I didn't use a particular work of his for inspiration, but wanted to capture the sense of the Sandman covers as well as the random bits of collage from Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth. There's also a lot of fabric in the cover textures--which was deliberate after seeing some superhero-themed needlepoint works on Etsy, and because the first page of the comic involves Cat getting ready. As for the credits script, I went through the list of fonts I have installed and settled on that one because it looked both handwritten and very Sandman |
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