We’ve entered the final week of the Gamer Girl & Vixen: Tyrant Lizard Queen Kickstarter campaign. We’ve had some solid success with this one and will definitely be making a comic this year! I can’t wait to show it off to all of my readers who have ordered a copy.

I’ve been doing some artist spotlights for the past week, and next up is Jo Christian.

Q. What led you to becoming an artist? 

A. I grew up watching Disney Renaissance movies (1989-1999) and wished I could draw like that. I think it was the movie Mulan where I first realized that art could be used to further the storytelling medium (because the movie art was heavily inspired by Chinese watercolour and ink work, and I was going through a Chinese dynastical phase at the time). 

Fast-forward to the end of college, and I started reading Hellblazer comics and realized that the comic medium was full of characters and stories I could really dig into, and again, art was part of the storytelling medium. From there I obtained a very pink and sparkly “How to Draw Disney Princesses” book and used it to learn the first foundations of drawing people in the Disney style. 

Q. What do you see as your strengths as an artist? 

A. I’ve been told that my use of colors are very bold while still following colour theory. I also have a deep love of character facial expressions.

Q. What are your future goals as an artist? 

A. I would like to provide the art for my own comic scripts and maybe even delve into animation where my love of visual storytelling began. 

Jo drew the shorts Mission Unpossible and Nothing At All. Which, now that I write them back-to-back, those titles are both Simpsons references. Wild.

I had so much fun making these little mini-comics and I can’t wait to make some more going forward! We hit our first stretch goal in the campaign this past weekend, so all the mini-comics I’ve been sharing will be included in the Tyrant Lizard Queen graphic novel!

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