Interview With The Artist: Connie

May 30, 2018

By: Courtney Glover McElwee

Today I interviewed the artist Connie. Connie is a 13 year old artist known as Cursed-Image-420 on DeviantArt. She’s been drawing since she was 10 years old and eventually moved on to digital art. The first thing she ever drew were stickmen and her technique has improved over the last three years. I asked her what inspired her to start drawing, “Just needed something to do with my free time, but eventually it became sort of an escape for me in general.”

Her favorite thing to draw is Anthro. Anthro, refers to the Greek word anthropos meaning human. Anthro art refers to humans, human-like, or humanoids, especially with regard to sentience. Anthro art can be an animal with human characteristics or a human with animal characteristics. She uses a Wacom Intuos Draw to create her anthro art. Connie has been on DeviantArt for only four months and if you visit her page you can’t help but notice her unique sense of humor. “I've always had kind of a dark, off color sense of humor in general.”

When asked about her misunderstood style of art, she said this “So in my art I tend to stylize it by drawing the line art like normal, then making sketchy lines inside of the lineart, removing the excess line, and then filling them in with the same color as the lineart. This way, it forms what I like to call ‘in-line’ art as opposed to an outline, so it technically counts as part of the mass.” Trust me, when you see her art work, you’ll understand what she means by “in-line” art. Her style is unique, refreshing, and one

of a kind.