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33 – Farm Fresh
Posted on June 16, 2010 by Dawn
One of the major questions I get is "what's your inspiration?". Sounds like a simple question, but it is never the case for me. I mean, there are different types of inspiration, like what inspires me to draw, what inspirations influence my artwork, and what inspires me to create a certain type of character/story. I'm an artist, so many of my inspirations are visual, but occasionally some music makes its way in. What inspirations influence my artwork:
I'll never forget this issue where Dr. Doom invites Storm to dinner and how Storm finds him charming.
For comic books, it's artists like Amanda Conner, David Mack, Joseph Michael Linsner, Peter Gross, Yoshitaka Amano, and many others that I'll suddenly remember late at night. But my biggest influence starting out was my big brother. He was a great artist and I aspired to be just as good as him. We would share how to draw/animate books and he would help me on drawing techniques that I was having problems with. One day I told him that I wanted to draw people (rather than the Garfield/Charlie Brown drawings) so he handed me Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 Issue 145 and told me to draw from it. So began my love for drawing comic book characters and comic books themselves - not to mention me choosing Storm as my favorite X-man. What inspires me to draw: Movies, usually -- and which ones switch depending on the mood of the drawing. For Zombie Ranch, it's a lot of Westerns/Zombie Movies. Though if it's something creative, I might watch Spirited Away, Mirror Mask, or some other movie swamped with creative imagery. If I can't watch a movie or don't feel like it, then I go to music. Which again for Zombie Ranch means a lot of Western or Horror soundtracks, though there is also a lot of Nerd Rock in there, like Jonathan Coulton's "RE: Your Brains", or most Kirby Krackle music. Though lately my inspirations have been from watching Clint play "Red Dead Redemption". It's fully for research purposes and there is no fun play value at all...we swear...okay, it's a great game to play. Well I don't get to play it since I've been busy for the last several weeks, but it's fun to watch while I draw. What inspires character/story for me: I am not much of a writer so mostly don't get involved directly in the story, but character creating is a collaborative effort and I still need inspiration on designing the visual personalities of each character. This almost all the time comes from movies since it's the best source for expressions and body characteristics. Some movies/TV shows that influence the expression/looks of the characters or story environment are "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", "Alien", "Night of the Living Dead", "Shaun of the dead", "Tombstone", "Unforgiven", "High Noon", "Dirty Jobs", "Deadliest Catch", "Cowboy Bebop", "3:10 to Yuma" (1957), etc. So there we have it, you know all my secrets. If you have any questions that you would like for me or the writer to answer similar to this, feel free to contact us. Mutant Babies Garrus!

6 thoughts on “33 – Farm Fresh”

  1. Pingback: Zombie Ranch – 33 – Farm Fresh | All About Comics

  2. anonzombie

    Wait, wait…He’s feeding the zombies zombie chum? I seem to recall another farm animal being fed its own parts and going insane. Though, I guess insane zombies aren’t really any worse than normal ones.

    1. Dawn

      Yup, that’s a bit of the ground up Zombie we saw Uncle Chuck grinding in comic #29. And once again our Uncle Chuck discusses “Mad Zombie” in comic #17.

  3. Dawn

    Now that I look back on it. Uncle Chuck really is a wealth of knowledge. Feel like I should end each comic with Uncle Chuck talking like this with a “The More You Know” rainbow.

  4. Clint

    What can I say? Chuck loves to talk. That he provides exposition is just a useful side-effect. Honest.

  5. 海外仓

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