What mediums do you work in?

For professional work, I primarily use photoshop and a wacom cintiq.

What photoshop brushes do you use?

Kyle Webster dry media brushes! I generally stick with the default settings of a crunchy pencil brushes, but when I am painting I do adjust opacity and flow to achieve achieve a variety of textures and transparencies.

​What's up with that username? 

Proteids are a classification of salamanders with external gills! They are not quite Axolotols, but aren't they cute? My username is an intentional misspelling so that I could have a unique and consistent ID online.

Did you attend an art school?

I did! I have an AA degree (+ an unfinished bachelors) from the online branch of the Academy of Art University! I … dropped out before I finished my bachelors because my illustration teacher asked why I was still in school if my sketchbook was full of ideas for comics I hadn’t made yet … AND HE HAD A GOOD POINT!!!

Did you attend normal school?

I did not! I was homeschooled all the way through high school. (My diploma is from a correspondence school!)

Do you have any advice for someone just starting out in comics? Like … how do you put the pictures in the boxes?

Unfortunately, it’s not any more complicated than putting the pictures in the boxes!!

• first, something happens

• then something else happens

• and finally, the last thing happens

• the end!

If you feel stuck visualizing The Whole Page, I find it helpful to decide on The Big Actions at the beginning and end of a page? Then it’s a bit easier to fill in the beats between those actions.

Got another question not answered here? Feel free to email me ~