Katie Winchester

Illustrator and Animator. Likes dinosaurs. 

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My bestie is such a water bender, you guys.  So I drew her as one.

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Avatar (the last airbender) is the best.   Here’s my attempt to draw myself as a bender, as a member of the fire nation of course. 

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My new housemate said she didn’t like zombie films. So I stuck this guy on her door.

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Hey, I LOVE the diverse way you draw faces and characters and I was wondering if you have any tips on how you do that? Too often when I practice drawing I get stuck in that "same face" rut and I struggle to branch out. It's hard for me to make it look natural and I usually end up so disheartened that I stop practicing for long amounts of time, which I know is not helping me at all. Again, absolutely love your art style. :)

Oh shucks ! Thank you friend. ‘Same Face TM ‘ is probably the hardest thing to break. Drawing in your comfort zone is relaxing and falling into patterns happens to everyone. I’m gonna tell you tho – it takes a lot of crummy drawings and tests to get into the more natural exploration. You just gotta keep pushing yourself! So here’s a little exercise I tend to do daily ( or every other day ). I give myself a time limit of about 10-15 minutes. I draw a bunch of random shapes 

And then I just take those shapes put faces in them. I don’t let myself think too much because the moment I start to they get harder and harder to draw! So here’s the result of my 10 minute time restraint

Voila! Just a bunch of random faces for kicks. And then you leave it and try it again the next day and so on and so on. I also tend to just look at people and their expressions / face shapes. Just observing can really go a long way for making it click. This is what’s helped me to look at faces and push / exaggerate things in ways that fit. I hope this is sort of helpful anon!

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Great advice. Me thinky I takey.

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Finito! My #D&D adventure party on their latest dungeon crawl: a crossover with the Simpsons. Appropriate, seeing as we are a cartoonishly silly bunch of ‘heroes’.

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More wolfydogs

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Inspired by Nova, a white wolfdog I met at the Yumnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary in Alberta. 

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My handsome fella and I went to Vancouver. This comic just about covers what we did/saw/walked over.  Except the vending machine of umbrellas. I couldn’t work that one in.

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When you get a new laptop

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I love the wildlife (and puppylife) I’ve met here in Canada. And it’s about time I tried to learn watercolour again.

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Farewell MythBusters.  I’ve freakin’ loved working for these guys. It’s a small group of very talented people, bringing science and curiosity (and explosions) to a huge audience. This is a card design I made for the farewell party. See if you can name all the references :D