Canto Cutie - Volume 2

In your newer works, you have been
changing up your style with digital
drawing methods, bolder, minimal
lines and sometimes color. What’s
your inspiration behind these
changes and what are some
challenges you face with them?
I have mainly drawn with pen and
paper until 2020, when my partner
gi!ed me with a secondhand digital
tablet. Up until then, I never thought
of switching to digital, mainly
because I was not happy with how
experiments I had made until that
point looked. But I suppose as I make
more comics, I want to keep
challenging myself. If I get too
comfortable, I may only utilize one
style for a long time, and then I won't
be able to discover the exciting feeling
of trying something new. This year, I
tried drawing with colored markers,
watercolor paints, digital on
PhotoShop and it's been fun to see my
ideas take shape in new ways, and
hearing my readers tell me how
unexpected it is to see this kind of
different direction from me.
My main challenges have to do with
getting over the idea that I have to "be
good" at something before I start it.
One of my favourite comic artists,
Walter Scott who creates "Wendy",
once said about his own drawings that
they don't "look like someone who is
good at drawing, drew them." Even
though Walter is a skilled
dra!sperson who has exhibited his art
in galleries and has an MFA, I love how
he leans towards an accessible
drawing style, that makes his
character of Wendy, a struggling
artist, feel ever more sincere and
profound.
2020
PhotoShop
Walter Scott
Wendy
Wendy
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