ross draws

first of all, sorry for the late reply! again i don’t check tumblr very often anymore haha but anyway! thank you so much!! i was contacted by them! i think their editors know me by association with my work for other publications such as young star :) 

Hi sorry I just saw this now and I’m not sure when this was sent but I hope I can still be helpful to you! As for influences, I’d say it was books/comics from when I was a kid (Tintin, WITCH, Archie, Amelia, Madison Finn, Quentin Blake for Roald Dahl books, etc), old anime (Ranma, Cardcaptor Sakura), and music (I listen to Broken Social Scene and K-pop when I draw lol). Now that I’m ~unemployed~ I plan on taking a break first for maybe a few weeks or a month and then actively look for commission work for a few months, and do a lot of passion projects on the side. 

sorry im not sure when you sent this so i might be responding late!! anyway, ID as a course has its faults but i really love it. it’s a lot more theoretical than technical, so your drawing, painting, and designing skills may not be as good as those students from up, ust, and csb. however, your theoretical backing should make you pretty good at ideation and concepts, and that will really help in elevating your art and design. not everyone likes ID because the classes aren’t outright useful, since they’re often theory and history based, kind of like a general psych/philo class. but if you think you’d be up for that, pls do consider it!

the curriculum is a bit young so some classes get repetitive, but you do get a lot of design practice, so while it’s exhausting it’s also something you should take advantage of! more than anything i would say around 60% of the profs i’ve had are amazing and i really look up to them (75% if you include profs for classes outside the fine arts dept, like philosophy and math) so you learn a lot purely because the profs are great.

my fave thing about ID is the community, above everything else haha i’ve met so many great people, both profs and students—they have the best humor, are so talented, and are such great thinkers. shout out 2 my batchmates i luv u

typography midterms pt 1: the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

the rest of #makeshitmarch

i attempted to make gifs for self-declared #makeshitmarch, then realized in the middle of a dryspell (because of school, unfortunately) that it won’t help me develop as an illustrator.

i’ve been bothered about my coloring skills, which i first thought were kind of secondary. but now that i think i’m pretty happy with how i draw people, i really need to work on using light and varying my brush strokes. i’ve also been bothered with how blank my background are, and i don’t want to ever say it’s just the way my style is without trying.

“I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes.” (Midnight Shadow in Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto)

i read kitchen last summer and have been wanting to draw yuichi and hiiragi ever since.