My first question (shhh! I don't care if it's cheating!) -- do you know when you transitioned to digital only for your art? What do you think has been the biggest strength and biggest weakness for you in that move?
Hey! Meredith here. I transitioned fully to digital when I got my drawing desktop about five years ago. Before that I was pencilling and inking by hand and coloring digitally.
Probably the biggest strength and weakness is the same thing. The ability to ‘undo.’ It means I can attack a page until I’m happiest with it. But it also means I may get into a noodling death spiral.
Meredith, hi!! First time long time. How did you develop your own style? Every time I try to draw something it always feels like I’m copying someone else! Thanks! (I’ll hang up now and listen on the radio)
Oh gosh. I subscribe to the theory that a style is just something that happens when you start developing shorthand’s for things (like noses or hair). It’s less intentional, more like a well worn path.
As for the fear of copying, these are my thoughts and they’re not shared by everybody, but I think a certain amount of mimicry is necessary to help yourself find what you like most.
This is less directly about process, but do you have favorite things to draw and least favorite things to draw? As your partner in Black Cloak crime I probably should have asked this question long ago?
I think you told me you'd had enough of horses for a while. lol. A common answer I'd guess among artists.
(And then I made you draw a Centaur. WHOOPS. Sorry!)
For some reason I’m good with centaurs. And I really don’t know why that is…
I’m not thrilled when I have to do robots, but I really enjoy life drawing. (Although, for obvious reasons drawing naked folks doesn’t come up all the time in comics.)
My first question (shhh! I don't care if it's cheating!) -- do you know when you transitioned to digital only for your art? What do you think has been the biggest strength and biggest weakness for you in that move?
Hey! Meredith here. I transitioned fully to digital when I got my drawing desktop about five years ago. Before that I was pencilling and inking by hand and coloring digitally.
Probably the biggest strength and weakness is the same thing. The ability to ‘undo.’ It means I can attack a page until I’m happiest with it. But it also means I may get into a noodling death spiral.
Like everything in life, greatest strength is also greatest weakness!
Meredith, hi!! First time long time. How did you develop your own style? Every time I try to draw something it always feels like I’m copying someone else! Thanks! (I’ll hang up now and listen on the radio)
Oh gosh. I subscribe to the theory that a style is just something that happens when you start developing shorthand’s for things (like noses or hair). It’s less intentional, more like a well worn path.
As for the fear of copying, these are my thoughts and they’re not shared by everybody, but I think a certain amount of mimicry is necessary to help yourself find what you like most.
Well said.
Love process stuff! So cool
This is less directly about process, but do you have favorite things to draw and least favorite things to draw? As your partner in Black Cloak crime I probably should have asked this question long ago?
I think you told me you'd had enough of horses for a while. lol. A common answer I'd guess among artists.
(And then I made you draw a Centaur. WHOOPS. Sorry!)
For some reason I’m good with centaurs. And I really don’t know why that is…
I’m not thrilled when I have to do robots, but I really enjoy life drawing. (Although, for obvious reasons drawing naked folks doesn’t come up all the time in comics.)
Maybe it's just because they're so cool?
I hear you on robots. That would be high on my "not interested" list if I was an artist for sure.
Thanks for hanging around today, Meredith. <3