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II: I am a person who doesn’t really like asking
questions. I would just rather watch someone
else draw. I would really love to see how Craig
Mullins works and creates his masterpieces.
2da: What are your preferred tools to
work with? Are there any brushes you
find yourself using again and again?
II: Rough and irregular brushes are my go-to tools.
When I draw I tend to make rough sketches with
the bigger brushes and afterwards I work on the
details. And to be honest, I have about a dozen
different brushes, but I always use the same
two for sketching, detailing or anything else.
2da: Which tools and software do you use? Are
there any you would like to learn in the future?
II: I mostly work with the good old Photoshop. It
has never failed me, and never will hopefully. I’ve
tried using Paint a few times, so that is something I
wouldn’t mind learning in the future. On a serious
note, there is something I really want to learn
to use: 3D modeling programs. Mostly I want
to use it for correctly representing lighting and
perspective. But I’m never giving up on 2D drawing.
2da: How would you describe your job to a group of
aliens, who have no idea what an artist is or does?
II: The first thing that comes to mind is that I am
probably going to draw them. What else can you
do? And if I manage to finish the drawing before
getting eaten, I might even show them some of
my best works and ask the aliens to buy them, as
well as follow me on Instagram and Facebook.
Imagine getting messages from a galaxy far, far
away. And well, then I would get eaten, but not
before giving them an autograph of course.
2da: What advice would you give to someone who
is struggling to launch their career as an artist?
II: There is one thing everyone says and everyone
should actually follow: never stop drawing. It’s
true for any kind of art, but especially here. Never
stop doing what you do. No matter how little you
like your works, no matter how bad you feel about
them and yourself after doing them, no matter
how little you believe in them and in yourself.
Just keep working, keep doing what you love
even if it’s just for the hell of it. Just keep working
and trust me, one day it will be worth it. Or in
other words, your future self will thank you.
The fictional city of Greysle. In this drawing Ismail tried to
show the beauty of an industrial metropolis, frozen in time