More Emails!

From EK Weaver who writes/draws TJ and Amal.

From Stewart of Just Add Water (Who I actually didn't know was at college today, grr!)

From Elena who writes/illustrates Sister Claire and the upcoming Nightingale (A tale of a blind superhero)

I've always been quite nervous about emailing/ringing people that I don't know but over the last few days I seem to have quashed that anxiety and I'm emailing people I never thought I'd get in touch with.

Edit:Leigh Gallagher (Defoe 1666) who I met at Thought Bubble. (How much I don't pay attention to my surroundings, a shout out I didn't know about)

And Emma who is currently working with Windflower studios (and has worked far Marvel comic and Tokyo Pop)

Email Away~

I've been sending emails off the last few days to various illustrators and designers/design studios and the first ones back were from Windflower Studio. A UK based comic book studio (all women) who have all recently graduated. As a studio they're currently working with writers Leah Moore and John Reppion, as well as comic book illustrator Emma Vieceli. They're working on a project for Hat Trick Productions and Channel 4 Education. (I'm told it's going to be a motion comic set in Victorian Manchester...which sounds awesome if that's true)

I emailed the studio as a whole and it was Fez who got in touch. (And this morning I received a really great email from Kit.)

My email to them.

Fez's reply.

I'm just waiting on them to get back to me with the answers to my questions. (Which all 4 of them are going to answer) They've got a deadline for Wednesday but I said whenever is good for them. I also just need to go through the images on the website and give the a list so I can get the higher resolutions.

Questions for Design Context Book

Some proposed questions for my design context book that I am currently emailing out to designers and character designers. I won't send them all, and a few more questions need to be proposed. Some of the questions would be tailored to the designers I'm sending them too.

• How do you go about designing, and what goes through your mind, from start to end?
• What is a typical day for you, and who are the people you work with?
• What are some of the things that you have worked on?
• What projects are you working on now? (if you're allowed to tell)
• Who are some of your favorite artists/designers out there?
• Could you talk about your process in coloring your work, as well as the types of tools or media that you use?
• What part of designing is most fun and easy, and what is most difficult?
• What are some of the things that you do to keep yourself creative?
• What are some of your favorite designs which you have seen?
• What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?
• What inspired you to become an Designer?
• What are some of the things you have learned from other designers that you have worked with or seen?
• What wisdom could you give, about being an Designer? Do you have any tips you could give?