Oh! M.G.!

Mythimna, Island of Lesbos

The last two months pretty much all my plans for 2017 got completely shot, so. Fuck you, 2016.

My piece for the @coventhezine, organized by @allisonranieri.

I always end up drawing people napping on couches. I’m sure there’s some deep-seated psychological explanation.

Been practicing portraits. What better subject than the ten dollar founding father without a father?

An assignment from a storyboarding class I’m taking. The assignment was to board at least 10 consecutive shots from a movie, I picked A New Hope.

A logo my friend commissioned for her new fairytale podcast, The Witch In The Woods.

16. Do you draw more today than you did in the past, or do you draw less?

Hmmm not sure? I tend to do everything very cyclical, so I will draw like a maniac and then rather little for a while. I try to draw at least one thing everyday, so I think I’ve gotten more consistent overall, but it really goes up and down. Plus the fact that I’m not in high school anymore and can’t draw in class and have the entire afternoon off cut down my available drawing time a lot. I’m trying to branch off into storyboarding for work, so hopefully that’ll help me get back on top!

18. What are you currently trying to improve on?

I’m taking a class in storyboarding right now, since visual storytelling is my overall focus, personally and career-wise, and my 9-5 previs job teaches me more about cinematography every day. I also try to tighten up my writing (scripts!) but art-wise, it’s mainly composition etc. And sketching from life without being intimidated by people, scenery... Anything that’s not animals or plants, really! Hehe.

30.What inspires you to not just make art, but to be a better artist?

STORIES.

Nothing inspires me more than a story that gets me so emotionally involved I wake up and go to bed sleeping about it, and that feeling is always always always tied to characters. I will obsess over characters like nobody’s business; drawing random characters is alright but what gets me going is digging my claws into a juicy, well-rounded character with interesting relationships and themes.