Indie Creators Describe Their Process From NYCC’s Crowded Artist Alley

Who are you?

My title is Marcus Williams, aka Marcus the Visual; you’ll discover me on-line at Marcus the Visual. Oh, man, I’ve all the time beloved artwork. I’m a personality designer, however character design is what I suppose excited me to attract all these years once I was a child. I assumed I needed to do animation, however that’s probably not the place my pleasure comes from. I really like creating characters. Looney Tunes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter, all that was very character pushed. That’s what I’m nonetheless doing now.

How would you describe your artwork type?

I’m really an amalgamation of lots of people. Bruce Lee had three completely different masters, proper? But finally, he really got here up together with his personal model of all of that. And so, as a child, I attempted to attract like everybody I simply named. Now collectively, as a result of I studied all of these completely different kinds, I can pull and sort of mix something I knew from them. And so I give you one thing like that [Williams pulls out a print from his “Old Ninjas” series]. Some individuals can sort of eyeball this and say jogs my memory of one thing. But in the end, it’s a mixture.

What’s going via your head as you draw?

What do I wish to convey, what sort of vitality do I need this to have? It’s nearly the identical factor a photographer is making an attempt to border one thing fascinating. But I simply deal with character. So any character artwork that I create, I need it to inform a narrative, what will make somebody snap to this? So I suppose the development of this all comes down in anatomy, dynamic vitality, issues like that. I don’t all the time suppose that occurs with everybody. You can have a personality standing fully nonetheless, not doing something, and nonetheless be very engaged.

What is your massive present challenge, and the place can individuals discover you?

I’m working with a accomplice of mine, Greg Burnham, on Tuskegee Heirs. It’s a futuristic sci-fi motion journey set 80 years from now. It options 5 younger pilots who’ve been educated by the Tuskegee Heirs, however throughout a time the place manned flights are sort of unlawful. But the chief of the Heirs appears like they’re gonna need to be the final line of protection towards this ominous risk. Turns out, he’s proper. So it’s very cool, very anime-inspired, and it appears to be like as much as the historical past of the Tuskegee Airmen. We like what we’re doing is all ages. We’ve been engaged on it since 2016.

You can discover me on my web site, Marcus the Visual, and my Instagram.