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I draw illustrations, doodles, and comics in order to express my thoughts, my sense of humor, and my imagination. I feel that what I’m thinking is better conveyed through visual form rather than through words. It is as if I feel creating images in place of speaking is a less self-conscious way to express my thoughts. Ultimately, though, I am still self-conscious and self-aware, and this shows through in my work, I believe.

With this self-awareness also comes a desire to please or gain a reaction out of the viewer. I do this by instilling at least a little humor, meaning, or both into nearly every piece of art I do. Some of the major recurring themes in my art include a sense of solitude, strangeness, and silliness. I seem to be drawn to natural settings, landscapes, and animals: the natural environment can embody a sense of vastness and unfamiliarity, while animals can sometimes have a certain kind of simple, non-personal humor that I think is appealing. Usually I seek to have a fun, fictional, irreverent feeling in my art.

I do not know how to best transfer that feeling until I’ve laid the pencil to the paper. I begin drawing and develop and morph my ideas through sketches and thumbnails. I enjoy the freshness of the first thought-to-pencil transfers, but will follow a finished idea up with the proper refinements. My initial ideas eventually manifest themselves into the form of either individual illustrations, or sequential art. Often I will sketch and re-work something fairly extensively before finally completing the piece by either traditionally or digitally inking and coloring.

All work Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Dustin J. Davis