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- One More Thing, presents
Quick On The Draw with Julie Houts.
- [Interviewer] Why did you start
posting your illustrations on Instagram?
- When I started posting them, I had 10 followers,
who were my friends, and it just seemed
like a convenient way to speak to 10 people at one time.
- [Interviewer] A better version of a group text.
- [Artist] Exactly. Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Do the drawings that
we see in your illustrations, look a lot like
the drawings you made when you were
working as a fashion designer?
- [Artist] The ones I made when I was
working as a designer, they're not as wiggly.
There's no room for these sort of like sketchy moments.
- [Interviewer] How do you think that your
fashion design background influences the work
that you do now?
- [Artist] Since I was trained in
fashion illustration first, the figures themselves,
tend to have elongated proportions
that a fashion illustration would.
I mean, typically, they're like 10 heads tall,
so that's not real.
No one is 10 heads tall.
The typical person, I think,
is average like six heads tall,
or eight heads tall, or something.
- [Interviewer] We're kind of obsessed with these markers.
How did you land on these particular markers?
- Just as sort of a leftover from fashion school.
They're super wet and they're really toxic.
If you work a day or you're really high at the end of it.
(laughing)
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