Ask the Artist: izu
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Artist: izu |
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| Interviewee: | izu |
| Date(s): | March 2, 2010 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Fan Art, Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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izu was interviewed in 2010 for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
What compels me to draw? Well, what I’m passionate about. If I’m passionate about something I’ll probably want to draw about it... so finding out about SPN(two years ago at this point) was a bit like seeing the second coming because it’s PERFECT for drawing: you can have angst or crack based on the moments, very physically different main characters (but very good looking so they’re easy to draw), possible epic outcomes that can bring you from a ride in a car(yes, the impala qualifies in the goodlooking main charas) to a fight between angels with feathers everywhere. In the end, you can do whatever you want, mostly XD.
It took a bit of time before I could really use photoshop, but in the end I even start to sketch directly on the pc… which indeed avoids you a lot of nuisance. I’d love to be able to use other programs like Painter or SAI, but I’m abitudinary and I really don’t want to learn a new program from scratch XD at the beginning I use references, when I really know a character well I prefer to go by memory so that I can use my style only (I never liked to copy and I’m not good at it either). I start from an idea that I really sketch in loose detail (maybe on paper randomly when I get some idea, so that I don’t forget about it), like maybe sketched shilouettes. Then I try to reproduce better my idea. When I’m sure that it’s the template I’d like to pursue I choose some bright color (like sky-blue or acid green or fuxia)...often every character has a different color to make things simpler. Then I re-draw the sketch in the best possible way, and at this point I pass over it again and then color. In theory the part that takes most time is the lineart!