Seven-year-old Iris Compiet is in the local library, and she’s going to do something she’s never dared do before. She going to wander into the “forbidden section.”
Iris lives in a one-street town called Zandstraat in the south of the Netherlands. There’s a lot of nature, a lot of playing outdoors. Iris’s two brother are much older, so there’s also a lot of time spent by herself. She paints, she draws, she reads. She likes fantasy. She likes history, but history with an element of mystery to it.
The forbidden section is how seven-year-old Iris sees the local library’s grown-up books. She wanders into this section and pulls from the bookshelves a beautifully illustrated book about faeries and faerie folklore. Now Iris now knows exactly what she wants to do when she grows up: “Somebody does this for a job? That’s what I want to do!”
Jan Wessbecher
Dominic Carter talks to the visual artist about creating his own comic and why sketchbooks are great for creative experiments
Kyounghwan Kim
The Korean character concept artist speaks to Dominic Carter about staying open to ideas and the value of drawing regularly
Slawek Fedorczuk
Dominic Carter talks to the concept artist about what keeps him motivated and the advantages of using physical sketchbooks.
Raquel M. Varela
Raquel is inspired by magic, fantasy and fairy tales. She loves designing female characters from distant worlds. \"My greatest reference is Loish's art, thanks to her I learned to draw the movement and fluidity I like to convey.\"
Estrela Lourenço
Estrela is a children's book author and illustrator. Her work is influenced by her background in character animation and storyboards for clients such as Cartoon Network, and she channels comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes.
Daria Widermanska
Daria, also known as Anako, has been drawing for as long as she can remember. Inspired by Disney and classic anime, she loves creating new characters and often finds that a single sketch can spark a unique story.
Allen Douglas
Allen has been painting professionally since 1994 for the publishing and gaming industries. Inspired by folklore, he distorts the size, relationships and environments of animals, and calls his paintings 'unusual wildlife'.
Thaddeus Robeck
Thaddeus has been drawing from the moment he could hold a pencil, but it was the 2020 lockdowns that gave him the time to focus on honing his skills.
DRAW FASCINATING SYMBOLIC ARTWORK
Learn how JULIÁN DE LA MOTA creates a composition from his imagination with a focus on crafting figures, volumetric modelling, and light and shadow
First Impressions
The artist talks about his journey into the mythological world
