Archive for March, 2009

Stephanie Toppin

Stephanie Toppin is an artist from Houston, Texas. What are some of your favorite drawing tools (pens, pencils, markers, drawing tablet, all of the above)? Pens, markers, never pencils. Sometimes permanent markers. If you prefer pens, is there any particular brand, color, or type of ink you like best? Bic and Papermate. Always black. Sharpie […]

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Vivien Blackburn

Vivien Blackburn is an artist from the UK who also teaches painting and printmaking. Vivien is also the very first contributed interview. What are your favorite drawing tools (pens, pencils, markers, drawing tablet, all of the above)? Charcoal has to be one of my favourites; not always practical because it’s quite messy, so I would […]

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Mar Hernández (aka malota)

Mar Hernández (aka malota) is an illustrator and animator from Valencia, Spain. What are your favorite drawing tools (pens, pencils, markers, drawing tablet)? This is such a complicated question. I love pens, pencils, markers, the computer, the drawing tablet… everything can be used for something interesting… There is a pen I absolutely love, the Pentel […]

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How should the tool links work?

When I first started this site, I had the vision of how all the interviews would be interlinked and related by the common tools that many artists use. One attempt at that was to link the tool names in the interviews to an archive page where you can see other interviews that featured the same […]

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John Martz

John Martz is a cartoonist and illustrator hailing from Toronto, Ontario. What are your favorite drawing tools (pens, pencils, markers, drawing tablet)? I like mechanical pencils so I don’t have to sharpen them. I like to use coloured Col-Erase pencils for roughs, too, so I don’t have to do any erasing before scanning. For inking […]

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