Vacation time for me

Well, I'm leaving for a while! I want to start up all my old abandoned projects, as well as learn some new crap, like animating and stuff. I'll be back on here eventually I think, after I've learned some new things. I'll probably turn off the comments after a couple days, but I'll leave everything up. If I actually succeed in one of my new endeavors, I'll come back and post an update. Here are some random and unrelated last few drawings:

Ok, now I'll answer some questions you guys asked me in my last post.


Ryan G
"Katie, do you feel that you have to clean up your art for it to be commercially viable. Is it like screw it, ill do it like they want me to do it just so itll be seen by a wider audience? Great stuff by the way.."

I guess I feel like more people would respond to a cleaner drawing than a messy one, but that's not the only reason I want to work on cleanup...once you get good at it, it's really useful. I'd like to be able to paint and stuff. t's so hard to not lose elements of the original drawing, though.

Trophiogrande
"Who are some of your favorite illustrators?"

I have a lot of them! There are a lot of modern illustrators I like, but right now no names are coming up...I like a lot of Japanese illustrators whose names I don't know anyway. Oh! I like Kirsten Ulve...she's really cool. I love most the illustrators that Shane Glines has on his site, Cartoonretro.com.

Clinton
"How did you render this?"

With markers, and one of those gold pens. Same as usual! :)

Anonymous
"Dont you draw anything else besides girls? It's getting old"

Well, it's not getting old to me...in fact, it's really fun. If it's old for you, then there are plenty of other artist's sites to check out. I get this comment quite often, and I don't think it's very fair to demand what another person should and shouldn't post on their own art blog. I've already said that I know I need to practice drawing other subjects more, but it's my own choice to post or not post them here, because drawing girls is my primary interest. Another thing, I don't think the subject matter is so important so long as the drawings don't get too stale. Lots of people draw the same girl over and over and make tons of money, but I do my best to try and have a wide variety.

Jason White
"amazing stuff! it would be cool if you also did some purely non-conventional paintings at the same time. i would love to see you do some more punk girls, maybe some goth girls and possibly some rave girls."

Thanks! It's funny though...I never think that the girls I draw are conventional! I guess I try and stay away from drawing "classifictions" of people...like, "this girl is droopy and moody, I'll make her goth" or "this girl is peppy and annoying, I'll make her a cheerleader." I'd like to get good enough one day that I can capture the essence of someone's personality without giving clues. I guess I don't really like the idea of girls who classify themselves, anyhow...for now I am mostly drawing what I wish real people were- happy and random and living in a world where it's ok to wear a one-piece sweater with one sock outside. I would like to be like that!

Rebecca
"Have you ever thought about doing comics?"

Yes! I'm gonna go do some right now! Or...maybe tomorrow...

Jesse
"How does it feel to work at SPUMCO?"

I'm not there now, but it was fun when there were projects to work on! It's a lot of hard work though!


Well, that's all for now! Feel free to email me and crap!