Monday, August 09, 2004









Questions and answers.
Fabio version.

1. What is your favorite subject to draw?

Girls.

2. What is your most common choice in 2-d media?

Brush and ink.

3. Anything you refuse to draw?

A really bad story

4. Real anatomy or cartoon physics?

It has to feel real.

5. Which is more important - solid inking skills or solid color theory?

Inking.

6. Photoshop or PSP? Illustrator or Painter?

Photoshop.


7. Markers - Prismacolor or Tria?

Whatever, it ain't no brush.


8. Paints - oils, acrylics, or watercolors?

Watercolors


9. Ever imitate a popular style of art? (anime, disney, comic book...)

Only as a homage.


10. How would you define your "style?"

Romantic. I'm in love with my brush.


11. What is one area of drawing that you need to improve in?

Muscles..


12. When did you start drawing as a hobby? (we all drew when we were little)

For me, it was never a hobby, it's a way of life.


13. What kind of sketchbook do you have? Brand? Size? How old is it?

I currently have three sketchbooks, all types.The "I'm thinking with my hands" one is from the beginning of the year. The others are older.


14. How many sketchbooks have you had previous to this?

A bunch.


15. How many sketchbooks do you go through in a year?

One.


16. #2 yellow pencil or a clicky pencil?

Blue coloring pencil.

What kind of eraser do you use?

The one that works.


16. Who are your artistic influences?

Eisner, Mazzuchelli, Picasso, Frank Miller and Jeff Smith. More recently, I'm really into early cartoons and strips.

17.What books would you reccomend to aspiring artists?

Their sketchbook. If they want to draw, draw.

18. Do you have any favorite online tutorial sites?

I like it here. Don't you?


19. What is the most money you've ever made on one drawing / illustration / painting?

Money?


20. What do you hope to accomplish with your art? Do you want to go anywhere with it in life?

I want to tell stories and I want people to be able to find and read them.


21. Finally, why do you draw?

I'm cursed.

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