Part 2

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I.A. : Can you speak about your creative process; the flow from the initial idea to the final sketch?

CDL : I have a schedule with my partner which includes dates like, Mothers day, Christmas, Halloween, Earth Day, etc. We work together creating a situation, telling a short story about that theme and trying to make a sketch about that brainstorm. After that we make a list about the scenes that I will draw for each date/theme He does the description, and does the initial research; content, reference images, elements, etc.

I do the initial sketches and we discuss the composition for the image. When the sketch is approved I start doing a better sketch to be scanned. Sometimes, when I am involved in other projects he does the flat color process and I work on rendering colors. Otherwise, I do all the coloring. I like to draw and paint my own images because I am free to change whatever I want, that sometimes generates discussions, between my partner and I, about changing the things agreed in the sketch, but the end the result is OK.

If we are doing a more classical image like Aphrodite's Belt, he usually does all the research about the characters and elements related to them, that helps us a lot in the creative process. Until the final penciled sketch, I often redo a lot of drawing; thinking of the scene's composition, and drawing different elements on a separate sheet or file, combining them later. I prefer using only penciled sketches in the beginning of my work instead of doing them digitally.