Ask the Artist: Daggomus Prime
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Artist: Daggomus Prime |
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| Interviewee: | Daggomus Prime |
| Date(s): | January 27, 2011 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Fan Art, Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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Daggomus Prime was interviewed in 2011 for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
Art is just something I’ve been doing forever. I drew dinosaurs and horses as a kid, and then Pokemon when it was all the rage. I started drawing people when I was eleven and obsessed with Dragonball Z. My love for SPN started less than a year ago. Every now and then I would catch an episode, but I never really got into it until I saw 5.03, “Free to be You and Me.” I remember seeing how stiff and awkward Castiel was, and I wondered to myself, “what’s that guy’s problem?” I looked him up on Wikipedia and was suddenly sucked into this fandom.
I get as much confusion about my style as I do anything else, but there is a reason.I started out my art style by doing anime art, specifically bishounen. For a lot of my pre-teen years, I was obsessed with frail, pretty skinny boys and large-eyed chibis. Then, when I was fifteen, I discovered DC comics. It made me long to learn how to draw muscles, and I dropped anime.
Another influence on my style is the way that I physically look. I’ve been told at every turn that artists who create characters make characters that look like themselves. To be contrary, I went completely against this, and started drawing tall, muscular, big nosed hairy men, which I am not. I tried so hard to make them not look like me that I got a little carried away with it. It’s toned down now, even if you wouldn’t think it by how big I still draw noses.
As for avoiding the actors’ likenesses, this is just a personal preference. I have problems with artists copying right from an image. I think this is fine for practice, but I don't think it’s something a person should rely on as a style, and it weirds me out when I can tell what photo or screenshot was used. For me a photo is only reference to make sure I get the hair color or shirt buttons right.
Don’t be afraid of hands! I can’t tell you how sad it makes me when I see other artists hide hands away, shove them into pockets, or anything to avoid having them out in the open. Hands can be just as expressive as faces, or even more than. Plus, they’re so beautiful and an incredible, complex part of the human body. Yeah, they are difficult. I have trouble with them all the time, but I think understanding them and learning how to represent them is worth all the fuss. Draw from life. This is the most important thing I have ever learned in concerns to art. Nothing will help establish the structure of your artwork than learning how life moves and works. When I’m drawing, I’m thinking of a person’s bones, their weight, the space they inhabit, etc.