6 and 17 for the artist asks 🧡🧡
6. Favorite and least favorite angles/perspectives to draw?
I am always torn because I love love love a dramatic up or down angle! But they are for sure a real pain to draw, always. They are both my favourite AND my least favourite and I couldn't tell you how to distinguish that feeling of excitement from that frustration of challenge, honestly. Not how my art brain works.
Some examples:
17. Your personal favorite works of art (not made by you) are...?
Oh boy this one's a tough one! Much like my fav artists, this is a list I will keep expanding if you keep asking because on my end I don't really think there's an end to the list!
Princess Mononoke Background Art
All of it, I mean, but especially the forest spirit's forest. Just, changed my brain a bit when I first saw it.
Frazetta is huge for me, as you may be able to guess. Hard to pick a single image to capture what I love about his stuff, but let's go with the Sea Witch for now:
And another artist whose works haunt me is Caspar David Friedrich. We deserve a Wuthering Heights movie that has a landscape as alive and as haunted as his were:
Two more:
John Berkey, especially when his work blends concrete hard surface scifi with 60s graphic abstraction:
And one more in a similar vein, John Harris, who gives his hard surface scifi work an incredible materiality: