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July Q&A (Patreon)

Published:
2022-07-31 17:00:07
Imported:
2023-08

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Our monthly Q&A post! Feel free to comment any questions you may have here (webcomic/OC related or not) and I'll be happy to answer them! Please also don't feel pressured to ask anything either if you don't want to/can't think of anything this month 🥰

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Anonymous

Hi there! I hope you've been doing alright, but I've just been wondering, do you have any other OC's/story ideas you'd be willing to tell us about in the upcoming future?

Sawah
>>88681232

Ooh I haven’t been working on any other ideas outside of building on the Jon and Alex cast recently — but my partner has been trying to get me to draw a couple ideas he has! One is about a pirate and a botanist teaming up to find the fountain of youth, and another is about a funeral director and a ghost helping complete other spirits’ unfinished business ✨ I’ll let you know if any of those move forward in the future! 🥰🥰

Anonymous

How did your art style develop? I know some artists who started out doing extreme realism, and slowly morphed into cartooning, or vice versa. Did your art style take any weird paths?

Sawah
>>88791715

Oh man -- this is a good question, with a really long reply lol~ The timeline on this post really shows how my style has changed over the years (and all the awkward speed bumps along the way!): https://www.instagram.com/p/CG23-oZF0ld/ I was definitely one of those artists who started out with realism. I could mimic any photograph and was really good at still lifes and portraits....but I really, really struggled with drawing outside of references and simplifying people into cartoons that looked appealing. Much of my artistic journey was at a weird figuring-it-out phase haha. Here is a good example of what my realistic vs. cartoon skill level was at in 2017: https://sawah-draws.tumblr.com/post/155257696136/i-havent-drawn-my-ocs-in-a-while-so-heres For years, I don't think I was making a conscious effort to develop a style...I was very experimental and wanted to try everything to see what would stick. I also think I fell back on comfortable habits that later became my current style, such as drawing the little bunny ear hair tufts at the back of characters' heads to anchor their hairline. I was also just trying to figure out digital art for a long time, and using the default round brush kept me in the same place for a while. As I became more confident using a drawing tablet, I think my style became more confident as well. In 2019/2020, I really started to reevaluate my art style and make efforts to improve. I took more notice in what other artists around me were doing, and tried to figure out how they made it look so good. One artist called J Yang, or Wingedkoi on Insta, really inspired me; I wanted so badly to be just like them. So I made a list of everything they did that I admired, and tried my best to match them. I made this series as a way to practice everything I wrote in the list, and it was a *major* a-ha moment for me: https://sarahkturnerart.com/my-portfolio/spring-2020-illustrations/ Then I just continued to practice in my free time, consciously trying to draw and color in the new style. I made a new Instagram account to keep track of my progress: https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_cu3LJIgc/ -- and here we are now :) Practicing nearly every day really helped my art skills grow over the years, and observing and experimenting with different methods helped grow my style the most ✨ That's my art style journey so far 🥰~ I think I'm in another experimental phase with a new digital brush -- so we'll see what my style will be in another couple years haha Thanks again for the question! Apologies for the wall of text in return :,)

Anonymous
>>88791715

This is so cool to see! Thank you so much for the links and images to help showcase the journey. And it's so funny because there are parts of your current style and earlier styles that I really love! I'm also currently in an experimental phase with my art, especially with the lineart and shading techniques and brushes, so it's really awesome to see where other artists journeys have led them! Thanks for taking the time to answer the question so thoroughly, I appreciate it! :)

Anonymous
>>88791715

Oh, and also the 2020 illustration pages are absolutely beautiful. Do you sell prints by any chance?

Sawah
>>88791715

Aw I’m so glad you enjoyed seeing the links and journey over the years! That’s great to hear you’re experimenting with your style too! I really hope it leads you and your work to new places and you keep trying new things along the way — the journey really is worth more than the destination haha 🤩✨ I’m so flattered to hear you like the 2020 drawings too, tysm! 🥺💗 I do actually have prints of them on my inprnt store, but no pressure ofc to get any 🥰 https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/sarahkturnerart/