So on the 4th of July, I was driving home and had to take an alternate route because of the parade, and guess what I found? A new retro video game store, just a few towns away from home! This is something I've always really wanted, so it makes me real happy. It's a kind of sucky that I don't actually know joust HOW new this place is, and I find it as I've started condensing my personal possessions in order to pack for moving away.That's just...cruel irony, but on the the bright side, if my income stops being crappy, I now have a place to buy old games without paying shipping fees on amazon! x3

Ahh yes, I'd also like to promote my friend Rowen, who has just opened a trinket shop on Fa at  triskellecreations

Lastly, I stole a meme from  bitchwolf which was pretty fun to fill out, though it also made me a little sad thinking back on all the childhood art I've lost.


When did you start drawing?

As early as kindergarten...my first inspiration for drawing were video games and my cats.

What were the names of your first characters?

My first characters were simply anthro versions of my cats - I took each of their quirks and made it into a personality. Socks is a big-mouthed, crabby sounding Burmese...so I made him a crab. Tennessee was a big tubby thing, so he was the clumsy glutton. Then there was the main hero, my favorite cat as a child, Gizmo... a spunky, runt-sized grey Maine coon. Later, around the 8-12 years old age, i also adapted em and my friends as exaggerated cartoon characters.

Did they have a back story? What was it?

I can't remember very much, sadly, as most of them have vanished ( I think I threw all of it away during my suicidal phase of my early teens) - but Gizmo was set to be a video game and comic book hero. He would battle strange, drooling children called "clumps" or just "children" (children were supposedly the dumb, drooling mundane obedient youths and "kids" were the cools ones, on Gizmos side, who were "really rad" and "way past cool", and did their own thing). the clumps and children also had masters of course, I think the main bad guy was some kind of big green goop monster. or maybe it was a deranged school teacher...maybe both. *shrugs* Basically, the cartoons series Kids Next Door TOTALLY stole my idea. *laughs*

My God, I wish I had that old art now...stupid teen angst. <_<

What influenced the design of your first characters?

Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Sonic The Hedgehog, eeek the cat! (his show inspired me to draw gizmo as an anthro) wait OH MY GOD EEK THE CAT 'scuse me, I gotta raid the internet for some nostalgia....*ahem*

Is there anything you draw very similar now as to when you were a child?

Somewhat similarly, yes. But my comics always had rushed art and left out the details, such as the socks and gloves cuffs on sonic and tails, and Tails hair. (I also had a slapstick sonic comic series) I try to include the details even in silly little drawings nowadays.

What do you hate drawing?

muzzles at odd angles,..any anatomy at a complicated angle for that matter, complex hand gestures, mouths, very complex man-made scenery - you can't get get away with organic lines or variations like in natural scenery.

What do you love drawing?

cute stuff, funny faces, tails, blood, fire, wreckage, deteriorated and broken things. corsets, sexy or fluffy attire. eyelashes, girls. tears, emotional gestures (even though I'm not good at conveying them) and dreamy landscapes....which sounds odd, but, like, look at the scenery of Ray-Man. Stuff like that :3

What artists do you look up to?

Oh gosh. Where to start? I'll try to keep it brief...
-Jay Axer and Jhonen Vasquez: Both introduced me to the the amazing idea of intentionally warped perspective and anatomy alongside just really freaky character and scenery concepts. Always been a big inspiration to me. Axer's stuff is less freaky and more sane now, which is good, cuz it's like, it's grown with me and his work is still beautiful. As for Jhonen..w.ell, the visuals of Invader Zim blew my mind when I saw the first episode. Great stuff!
-Patrick Spaziantine: Aside from ze folks who made the actual box art and sprites, I feel he's pretty much the most amazing Sonic comic artist ever. His attention to detail and character is just incredible, he really brought each and every story to life in the Sonic comics. I even loved how he drew Robotnik's flubby belly. *grins*

-Lisa frank and whoever did Raymans art: The epitome of eye candy. Excessive bright colors and rainbows can very easily become Gaudy, but these people do it right.

-Christian Riesse Lassen: A more....realistic approach to same beauty of the art mentioned above, Christian's fantastic paintings have always wowed me. They really make you want to just run outside and soak in the beauty of nature,e specially the ocean and the sky. I am disappointed that I can't get more of his stuff, I've got some book covers, old folders and a single decently sized desktop wallpaper. He's even painted peoples cars!! it's amazing.
Some of the things I really like in artist are emotion, good use of colors, and creative designs - whether they be haunting, bizarre, beautiful or funny.

What art genre do you dislike the most?

I agree with  bitchwolf on the intentionally ugly art, things like "troll style" drawings or just intentionally grotesque or sloppy drawings. I can't understand why anyone likes it. Most porn, too. I tend to find it grotesque and creepy more than pleasurable. :s Also, anime, because I'm so sick of seeing it and I everything looks the same to me.


What art genre do you love the most?

a tie between cartoons, venting art and scenery. Cartoons show allot more personality than realistic characters, in my opinion. Venting art helps me deal with my frustrations. And scenery inspires me, either just to day dream or to create video game environments.


What was the last thing you drew?
A sketch of my freind Zack as a girl, eating spaghetti and meatballs. :p

Who is your newest character?
I guess that'd be Krimson, and shes a few years old. Shows how little time I've made for art the past few years :/