Southern Soul Daily

By: Courtney Glover McElwee    5-24-2018 Today I interviewed the artist Eleanor. Eleanor is a creator of “cute and creepy” art. She’s known by the name MsCreeptales on DeviantArt. She started out as a traditional artist who’s been creating for as long as she can remember. The very first thing she remembers drawing was an “OC” drawing, an original character. She’s always been the creative type and has been creating on DeviantArt for three months now. Now  she does digital art, stories, and poetry. Her unique and assorted creative gifts have collected her quite a few watchers, friends, and fans. Go check out Eleanor’s art @  https://mscreeptales.deviantart.com/gallery/

By: Courtney Glover McElwee 5-23-2018 Today I interviewed the artist named Kage also known as HonouNoKage on DeviantArt. Kage is in her early twenties and lives in a suburban area in Texas. She focuses on manga-styled illustration of the “flowery” sort. Flowery meaning big, expressive eyes, and flowing hair, etc. Her art also has a bit of “guro” influence. Guru is a term for genres that deal in more grotesque subject matter. When asked how long she’s been drawing she said, “Truthfully, I recall it as being something I always just sort of did. The dates in my sketchbooks go back about eleven years, so that’s about how long I’ve been more or less serious about it.” The first thing she remembers drawing, when she was a small child, was a purple butterfly with wings that curved around like swirls. She remembers it being a sort of mindless doodle, but it’s one of the few early memories she has. She was about 12 years old when she actively actually start...