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 Ross Work I stay up really late, like 5:30am or so, so most of my time awake is spent in the late afternoon and night. I usually work from about 1:00pm to 4 or 5 am, when there's an intensive workload. But if the deadline's not looming, i'm more relaxed about it. Favourite color I think my favorite color is blue, but i also really like pink. And my least is either yellow or orange, but even those i try to work with. Though on my 'Wet Moon' character Fall, yellow is perfect. Format My pictures are all different sizes... usually about 7 x 9 inches, maybe. some smaller, some pretty big. Favourite comics Chynna Clugston-Major "Blue Monday" Pets I have four cats: ker, bub, gork and krog. Ker and bub are sisters, and gork and krog are sister and brother. They all get along most of the time, but usually krog beats up on his sister. I had a fifth cat, nano, who had been around since i was born, but she died when she was about 19 or 20. Tea, coffee or... I like them both, but i usually drink tea. My favorite drink is Schweppes ginger ale. |
Gallery Ross Campbell
Panel by panel
I went to college in Savannah, Georgia here in the US, and majored in Sequential Art, which is a fancy term for comics. But i think all of my progression and improvement is through just simple practice and experimentation. I don't think classes can really teach you "how" to draw, paint, whatever, and while professors can teach you specific techniques or whatever, the whole atmosphere and experience are what really teaches.
Most art i do are random pictures for myself, i guess, nothing that's published. But for work-related stuff, it's mostly comic stuff, like "Spooked" for Oni Press. Then second to that, it's illustrations for White Wolf Publishing books, which i do only occasionally. I love doing pictures for white wolf, that's probably the most fun thing to draw outside of my own characters and comics.
I try to inject spontaneity into my perfectionism and vice versa. I value both, i like the merits of being spontaneous and more stream-of-consciousness, that's how i do the comics that i write ('some robots,' 'wet moon', etc.), i make them up as i go along, panel by panel. I sketch out almost every picture i do, though, but like i was saying i try to inject spontaneity into them, because life is always unplanned and unstructured. Things that are too perfect and too planned out don't seem real to me; like pictures that have this specific composition, and every aspect of the picture has a certain place or meaning within that composition, in order to convey something or direct the viewer's eye or whatever... but i don't like that, compositional "rules" classes teach never apply to life, so i don't abide by them at all. Any snapshot of life isn't an arranged composition. Sketches
My "Wet Moon" work is all inspired from real life, and how people are and everything, i really try to capture all that, of course with varying degrees of success. Even my mystic warrior monk pictures/characters are all inspired and fueled by real cultures and people, asian and african mostly, taken to different extremes or levels.
Ross Campbell (b.1979), freelance artist and illustrator. Originally from Rochester, New York - now living in Savannah, Georgia. Has studied "Sequential Art" at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Ross Campbell
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