| As far back as I can remember, I've always drawn. As a toddler, my first style focused on belly buttons and extra-large ears. Although my style has somewhat refined itself since then, I'm afraid I never practiced on regular basis enough to perfect it as other artists have. Creating graphic novels as a child used to excite me, but not since then has drawing truly felt worth my devotion and time.
Nowadays, it merely feels like a vessel to put my symbolic ideas across. I'm only interested in the end result: the time spent achieving it sadly feels like a waste, unlike my other artistic endeavours, (cosplaying, composing, programming, writing), for which creative process is not only expected to take a long time, but is welcomed to do so. Maybe a revelation in the future will rekindle that spark.
My style has been influenced by many sources: fantasy-realism and (in later years) anime/manga, but no other source has had the impact on me that European graphic novels has. Characters such as Astérix, Gaston Lagaffe, Spirou and Fantasio, Léonard, les Schtroumphs (Smurfs), with artists such as Franquin and Uderzo, influenced my visual style like none other.
Below is a history of my drawing through the years. Some of my most recent pieces can also be seen on the deviantArt community, under the name heartstrain: http://heartstrain.deviantart.com/ |