Q: What is this?
A: It's an online comic. If you're new to the concept, they're free
comics
displayed entirely online. I draw Yuri the Gakidou in my spare time
as a
hobby.
Q: How do you draw your comic?
A: Unlike a lot of digital artists, I don't tend to bother with a
preliminary sketch on paper. I draw everything, panels and all straight
into Adobe Photoshop 7 with an A6 Wacom Graphics Tablet.
Q: Do you do link exchanges?
A: Maybe. Show me your site and I might linkify you if I like it.
Q:Do you do commissions?
A: Yes, check out my commissions page.
Q:How often do you update?
A: Like, weekly or so. Depending on how busy I am. I don't really
have a
set day on which I update, because i'm a being of chaos.
Q: What are your influences for your art?
A: I wanted to adopt a sorta modern mainstream webcomic style, frankly.
I
think my influences would be a large assortment of anime, comics,
TV
cartoons, and of course other online artists.
Q: How did you come up with the storyline?
A: Well, I started with the characters, because the main cast are
origionally role play characters belonging to more than one person.
I
patched it up around Yuri's background that I came up with god knows
how
long ago, and tried to fit in a story and world that would fit with
everyone else's characters (Greg, Folin, Syung) I think i've finally
found a fairly open-ended situation everyone agrees on. Though the
storyline is no way ever complete.
Q: Is Yuri the Gakidou Japanese? What does her name
mean?
A: Being set in the distant future, the characters aren't of any
countries or cultures we're familliar with today. But Yuri's ancestry,
and her name, is actually Russian/European. Gakidou is from a Japanese
word, but i've taken that word to use as a name for a specific species
of
demon. No, YtG is not japanese, but I can't deny heavy manga influences.
Q: I'm thinking of starting my own webcomic, what
do you think?
A: Only if you really like hard work. If you have the time, good luck!
I'd like to read it.
Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
A: A: Okay.. uh... I'm a 17 year old gamer chick and art student from
Devon, England. I'll be studying Games Design in Preston next September.
I like scary/funny/adventure movies, animals, foreign food, and various
fantasy/sci-fi stuff. For more information and stalking material,
check
out ze blog.