Ask the Artist: lupe lei
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Artist: lupe lei |
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| Interviewee: | lupe_lei |
| Date(s): | June 28, 2008 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Fan Art, Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version art here |
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lupe lei was interviewed in 2008 for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I didn't start doing fanart until about 10 years ago when the whole internet fandom thing took off. I loved reading fanfiction and having no talent for writing thought that I could participate by offering my drawings and paintings on my favorite shows and characters. Before Supernatural, my fanart was mainly for The Sentinel and Stargate which can be found at my art site, respectively, here and here. Supernatural came into my life about 4 months ago and my imagination and consequently my artwork, has been filled with nothing but Dean and Sam since then.
My usual medium is colored pencil, but I also dabble in watercolor and pastels. I'm also learning to create digital art which I find incredibly exciting and full of potential. I love doing portraits but I also enjoy doing illustrations for stories. My latest work-in-progress is a colored pencil portrait of Dean which can be found at my journal here. I've been trying to document my work as I go because I thought it would be fun to have a record of it from sketch to finished portrait. My enthusiasm for colored pencils has lately been reignited after trying out some new drawing surfaces, ColourFix paper and Ampersand's pastelbord. They are fabulous for accepting layers and layers of colored pencil, so you can build up really rich deep colors. It's also possible to layer light colors over dark colors, which is pretty impossible to do on regular watercolor paper. I'm in love with the Colourfix paper at the moment. I like to practice sketching the boys from screen captures or straight from a Supernatural DVD playing in my computer, pausing when I find an interesting scene. I believe practice, practice, practice is the most important thing for perfecting drawing skills, so I'm still practicing away. It doesn't hurt when your subject matter is so easy on the eyes. In fact, I think the Winchester boys are responsible for singlehandedly bringing up my drawing skills up a notch or two.