INTERVIEW ☆･｡･☆ BRIE MORENO“I live for wobbly lines”Brie Moreno is an illustrator based

INTERVIEW ☆･｡･☆ BRIE MORENO“I live for wobbly lines”Brie Moreno is an illustrator based in Toronto who makes zines. She is also the creator of The Smelly Sisters comic series for Polyester Mag. We talked to Brie about her artwork inspiration, fave zines and the best thing she’s ever gotten from a thrift shop (image included).You’ve got an exhibition up on Art Baby Gallery at the moment -can you talk about what inspires your style and the work you create? I like to work with themes and subject matters that I’m familiar with, which is why most of my work acts as a diary. I always look through my camera roll or Photobooth for inspiration, especially for reference drawings. Toronto has a lot of weird little stores in various communities so I’m always exploring and snapping pictures of fun toys and food labels that I think are pretty or weird, that could potentially work in a drawing. I also always visit clip art websites and look at stock photos for inspiration, especially when creating narratives that centre around my diary.For you, what difference does it make working in pen/pencil and digital? Do you have a preferred medium?I used to only work analogue because it was easier for me to have more control over whatever I was working on. I also really appreciate the way analogue mediums allow for little mistakes to look beautiful and energetic- I live for wobbly lines. That being said, I really love how I’m able to use digital mediums to push my work in a direction I’ve never really explored before (like where have drop shadows been all my life?). I’m currently working on a Newhive piece so I’ve been practising making GIFs, and it’s been really unusual for me to see my characters come to life in that way.Your SCRUNCHEESE zine features drawings inspired by an amazing thrifted painting of a horse - what’s the best thing you’ve ever thrifted? My cat pillow! What are your favourite zines? The ones that I always look to for inspiration are ‘Club Queen Rat King’ by Emma Louthan, ‘Daily Routine’ by Tara Booth, ‘Boxing Zine’ by Noah Wingren, the mini comic ‘Infinite Walk-Thru’ by Bin Bag Babbies (JM KE, Simon Hanselmann and HTMLflowers), ‘Crawlers VOL.1’ by Jessica Butler, and ‘We Would Be Sisters’ by Grace Miceli. Any upcoming projects or plans for 2015? I’m so excited to have work up at SXSW and on Newhive that’s for a show curated by Molly Soda. Once schools finished I want to make another zine that’s more text and comic based. I also love working with paper mache and plaster so hopefully I can explore those mediums more this summer. Which artists are you into at the moment? I’ve been having to do a lot of painting for school, so for inspiration I’ve been looking at a lot of artists like Gary Panter, Misaki Kawai, Chloe Wise, Grace Miceli, Amy Stober and JD Banke. While I was working on BB zine, I was really influenced by the works of JM KE, Patrick Kyle, Morgan Maher, Taylor West, Noah Wingren, Luisa Rodriguez, Maren Karlson, Ginette Lapalme, Molly Matalon, Kendra Yee, and Jessica Butler.Brie is wearing our black Witch capwww.beaniebabesclub.com -- source link
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