Southern Soul Daily

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 i s Anthro. Anthro, refers to the G reek 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 alwa

By: Courtney Glover McElwee Today I interviewed the artist, Liz W. Izzy4Anime, as she is known on Deviant Art, is a 37 year old traditional and digital artist from Missouri . She grew up listening to classical music. Classical music is what inspired her to become an artist, “I was inspired by what I heard in the music itself.” The first thing she ever drew, ” It was of two hills coming together at the horizon with a river in  between them. The drawing also had a sunset with a few birds.” Liz has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil. Her favorite type of art to create, “Anything environmental and fantasy design.” Liz loves to read and write, mostly poetry, fan fiction, and fantasy. Her tools of the trade include a graphite pencil, acrylic paints, and oil paints. Liz excels at her anime art and I really enjoyed her Yu-Gi-Oh artwork. Go check out Liz W. and her wonderful art @ https://izzy4anime.deviantart.com/ gallery