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【Artist Baton】

◆Your name? Sabrina, and that's followed by a very confusing last name that no one can pronounce. XP


◆If possible, your age? 18 (almost 19 now.... soon I will no longer be a teenage witch D: )

◆When did you start drawing? Ohhhhh I'm pretty sure I was drawing illustration to Lion-King-themed stories since Ever, but I really started in fifth grade when I wanted to one-up my then-best-friend who was "writing a novel" (i.e. I was going to write a novel AND illustrate it)


◆Which hand do you use for drawing? Right hand.


◆Which is easier to draw - male or female? The hardest part of male proportions is legs for me.... girl hips provide an easier guide for where the legs go, so I guess girls are slightly easier. Either's fine, though.


◆Which is easier to draw - long hair or short hair? Long hair is more fun unless you're dealing with a lot of follow-through animation XD *impatient*.


◆Is it easier to draw the head facing towards the right or the left? It only matters if the character has a weird haircut.... Jekyll and Hyde's profile(s?) are way easier to draw if the left side of the face is showing because I embarrassingly can't figure out how to show his face when the big flops of hair come down. Same applies, less so, to Haruki.


◆Is it easier to draw the side view of the face or the front view? Uhhhhh 3/4? That's more the standard, isn't it?


◆What do you have problems in drawing? Environments. 8| I'm better after perspective class, though.


◆What do you like to draw? PRETTY PEOPLE. Uhhh I like character design, but what actually gives me the most satisfaction is illustrating scenes. Buuuut I rarely have time for that.


◆Are you a traditional artist or a digital artist? Whatever's most convenient at the time. :\


◆Where do you start drawing from? WELL Y'SEE. I sketch from a basic gesture, so that's either a line of action or a vague circle-head. I do cleanup/second pass from the eyes out.

◆What is your drawing habit that you are aware of? I've noticed recently I have a terrible habit of keeping one hand near my face while I draw, and every ten seconds or so I push up my glasses. I'm not entirely sure where this came from. @_@ It looks like I'm going "hmmm...." all the time. Also I tend to zoom out every minute or so out of boredom or to get a view of the whole picture. Every once in a while I'll get up from my chair with the intention of doing something, make a small loop around the room, and sit back down. I don't know what that is, either.

◆What do you keep in mind when you do lineart? Mostly I'm just concerned with keeping the gesture and strength of the sketch.... and hopefully improving on details. I usually don't consider my stuff "inked" except for the VERY occasional drawing where I WILL care about how the lines look. In that case I tend to vaguely follow a Mucha-like influence and use thicker lines for bigger shapes and smaller lines for details. I've also done a stylized broad stroke in an attempt to imitate sumi-e (there's a page of those in my portfolio, under "Japanese music video"), which was fun. But uhhh, most of the time I do sketches or lineless color. :\


◆Any tips for coloring/shading? Uh. Don't just shade with a darker/blacker tone of the base color, bring in other tints..... uh. I like to use really black shadows because it's a cheap way to make the inking look cooler.


◆How long does it take to finish a piece of art? It's hard to say because I'm a total spaz and work on ten things at once! A tied-down sketch I think takes between one and two hours .... maybe three hours for a simple lineless colored thing. Animation drawings obviously tend to take less time. Maybe uh. For a pretty simple character, ten minutes total? Crap I don't know. I'm obsessed with efficiency so I always try to work fast. D:

◆What music do you listen to while you draw? I like when I can be in the mood for musicals, but basically my entire iTunes? Recently I'm rocking some Phillip Glass.

◆How long does it take you to come up with an idea? Single drawings are pretty quick (not to say it doesn't take a while for me to think up a GOOD one), but story based stuff uhhhhhhhh. I can usually come up with MOST of a story within a sudden spark of a few hours, but coming up with a sound structure and ending can come months later. 8| For example, see my first-year film. The gargoyle died in many horrible ways in earlier versions.

◆Your favorite drawing utensils? If it writes, I use it.

◆Your favorite color/the color that you use a lot? Uhhhhh color, what's that? I think I use red and green a lot.


◆Your favorite style(s)? Currently: There's recently some French (possibly Goeblins students? I don't know, they write in French a lot.) blogs I've been following. I get nerdy. Oh, and my old favorite is James Jean. :3

◆Are you satisfied with your current art? I go through ups and downs, but I'm okay with it right now. Usually I experience a freak-out during Christmas break. I think I made some good improvements in second-semester thanks to a new way of doing figure drawings and some really inspiring upperclassmen in character design class. BUT I hear second-year is when a lot of people have Art Crises, so hopefully I will improve a lot. I DEFINITELY would not be okay staying at this same level for long.


◆What kind of artist are you aiming for? I want EMOTIONS THAT GRAB YOU OMG (aka what I suck at).


My first-year film:
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