I snapped some photos of my working space, just for fun. I think an artist’s studio (or corner, in my case) says a lot about them as well as the work that they produce. So in the middle of pencilling Vinny I stepped back and thought it’d be interesting to share.

I’ve got a simple drafting table that has great northern lighting from the window to the left. However that’s usually not enough, so I’ve got two more lights pulling double duty. Three of the Vinny pages are visible on the table, as well as some of my materials: india ink, variety of pencils, Copic pens, circle guide, obligatory stuffed kitty and signed print of a Christian Slade corgi. Some more adroit readers may notice something about my dominant hand based on the layout of the materials and page placement on the table.

Here’s a close-up of some of the Vinny pages, handily out of focus because my pocket-sized camera can somehow manage depth-of-field. Amazing. And here I used to think I needed a digital-SLR for that. Technology these days!

You may have guessed that I tend to go for Prismacolor products. There’s a cartoon that I was commissioned to do for ArguingIdiots.com (the producers of Vinny) hanging out in the middle. I’m in the midst of coloring it in Photoshop around me writing this. Also, if you look really closely, you can see the bluelines under the pencils on the comic pages.

So there you have it; an illustrator right in the thick of it. Not as exciting as I’d imagined it originally, but still offering an insight to my world. I find that I am an exceptionally clean artist (at least compared to my classmates in school). I was always the first to run to the sink after using charcoal in Drawing I. Like, knock-people-over-my-pants-on-fire first. I hated Ceramics because I could just never get the sludge out from under my nails at the end of the day. Oils were the bane of my existence with all of the chemicals and stained clothing, although I have since devised a way of remaining nearly spotless whilst handling them.

That’s why pencils, inks, watercolors, markers and Photoshop are in my top favorite mediums. Clean and simple. Mostly the clean part, though.