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Irene Pitcairn<2008-2009. The Elves of
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“Cartooning” is something I’ve never been good at. You may notice that my characters don’t tend to have exaggerated features. If I try to make them cartoony, they always look wrong to me, even though I’m perfectly capable of appreciating other people’s cartoons. I’ve thought about this a lot recently, and it seems like my brain and all of my fine arts training have been focused on seeing, and cartooning requires a certain quality of not-seeing that I find very difficult.
I’ve worked very hard and studied a lot of other people’s work to get the simplicity and clean lines that I do have in my work. I’ve mainly tried to acquire the style of manga; it’s simpler for me because it’s more consistent in what it exaggerates than American cartoons tend to be. My first comic was in a more Japanese style, but sometimes it doesn’t work very well for me; mainly, though, it doesn't seem to fit the story of LleuGarnock. But the quality of line that the Japanese can produce inspires me, and a lot of the shortcuts I use in simplifying my own figures, I learned from manga.
My favorite manga artists are Nobuhiro Watsuki and Masashi Kishimoto, but in a list of my major influences I cannot leave out Fred Gallagher, as a lot of my earliest drawings were attempts to emulate his style.
I've almost created the ridiculous number of buffer comics where I told myself I would stop being a coward and up my schedule to two a week. So look for more updates soon!