Winterfest Interview with Rita Terrell
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Winterfest Interview with Rita Terrell |
| Interviewer: | Winterfest |
| Interviewee: | Rita Terrell |
| Date(s): | 2005 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| External Links: | Winterfest Interview with Rita Terrell; archive link |
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In 2005, Rita Terrell was interviewed for Winterfest.
See Winterfest Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
What drew you to the Beauty and the Beast TV series, and why did you/do you feel the need to express yourself in B&B art? Had you worked with art before being involved with Beauty and the Beast or did your artwork develop from it?
Vincent is beautiful... and all muscles and hair and those are the most fun things to draw... (Up to then my favourite things to draw were horses and lions.)
Which of your B&B works do you like best, and why? If you were forced to pick one of your art works as a favorite, what would it be?
I guess the pictures that show Vincent in a fantasy setting.
How do you choose the subject of your art? What inspires the composition of the drawing, the choice of making a face portrait or a full body picture, the need to include Catherine, the positions of bodies. What do you imagine first - the content of the work or the emotion you want it to convey? Tell us a bit about all this.
When I illustrate a zine, I read the story carefully and imagine it. (I hate novel covers that completely ignore descriptions in the story because the artist obviously didn't read it.)
Do you want to say anything else to the readers of this interview about yourself, B&B, the art, or the fandom?
B&B was a source of both great joy (The great fans and actors that I met) and terrible sadness and disappointment. (The third season.)
I learned a lot from those days. How not to spill ink all over everything, how to manage criticism without getting depressed and how to survive at a convention with no food or sleep. I also learned that if you try to kill time by role playing Beauty and the Beast when driving cross country with a friend that you might just succeed TOO well and suddenly realize you have driven almost halfway across a state in the wrong direction!