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| Jill Is a 29 year old artist from Canada. She is currently working on an (animated!) online fantasy comic of her own creation called Kentauroi, as well as one for Heathen Sent. She is also mistress of swirlies and shinies.
Elfwood User Name: jill  Page: http://jill.elfwood.com/
Published material at: SciFi Fantasy as jill: [Go!]
Published material at: FanArt as jillj: [Go!]
Jill is an Elfwood Patron until Sat Feb 27, 2010
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Hello! Welcome, I am a 29 year old artist living in Canada. I hope you enjoy my drawings. I am a freelance comic book artist and character designer. Heathen Sent is a comic that was on, then off, and is now back on again, as a web comic this time (printing costs are what killed us) with my friend Christopher Stuck. It is basically, what if the world was ending, and nobody noticed? It features many gods and goddesses from many different cultures, as they either try to bring about the end of the world, or prevent it. You can see images not found here in the Heathen Sent Gallery Kentauroi is a webcomic of my own creation, written and drawn by me. It is pseudo-animated and takes place in a medieval fantasy land that is home to elves and centaurs in addition to us run of the mill humans... As for purchasing my work, I am currently too busy to accept commisions, so why not try purchasing my work printed onto mouse pads, t-shirts, coffee mugs etc at my online store? The store has mugs, shirts, calendars, magnets and all sorts of goodies.
Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Movies and TV Shows
Heroes, Full Metal Alchemist, X-Files, Buffy/Angel, Firefly/Serenity, LotR, Star Wars, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Pan's Labyrinth, Batman TAS/Beyond, Donnie Darko, Beauty and the Beast, Incredibles, Aladdin, Mulan, and a bunch of other Disney stuff
Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Books
Anything by Neil Gaiman, A Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, Discworld, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, His Dark Materials, LotR, X-Men comics, Fables, Y: The Last Man, Runaways, Preacher, Watchmen, Transmetropolitan, Wheel of Time, The Gap Cycle, Dune, Uplift books
Favorite Music
Movie themes (especially Danny Elfman), Apocalyptica, Within Temptation, Bad Religion, Tori Amos, Dresden Dolls, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, The Killers, Garbage, Green Day, NIN, Rasputina, Fiona Apple, Lacuna Coil, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, After Forever |
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Personal art/stories...
Livejournal
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Joined Elfwood: 1997-00-00
Last login at Elfwood: 2008-10-15 08:14:40
Number of Written comments: 43
(Total characters in written comments): 10588
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Guestbook for Jill
 | |  | | | Date | Name | Comment | | | 2 Mar 2008 |  Karin M. Mayville | Love your art! And yay, you like Fullmetal alchemist too! Thanks so much for your inspiring work! | |
| 7 Mar 2008 |  Nathan Ford | Hey Jill thank you so much for you comments on all my art so far that I have posted, you are helping me to become a better artist along with all the others here. your tutorial on my Angelic layer fan art has helped me as well, I am currently practicing on an angled view of a female character (for some reason that is my main focus right now) and it is looking good, however it is o nlined paper again. lol anyways I appreciate all your help. Thank you.
~Ichigo out | |
| 7 Mar 2008 |  Nathan Ford | you know what I need... I need a document to help me figure out how to picture things in three dimensional because that is my biggest problem. think you could help me with the different poses?   Jill Johansen replies: "did you see my latest tutorial in the forums? I put it in the review section because it wasn’t finished yet and hoping you would see it there, but they moved it to the reference section.... I started it because i was so disappointed with the tutorials i found online. I don’t actually use reference very much, so don’t have a sheet like that. but the tutorial might help you out..." | |
| 8 Mar 2008 |  Lorraine Frasquillo | You are an incredible artist! Thank you so much for all the help you are giving folks on the forum, looking at your advice is helpful for a lot of people and your tutorials are outstanding. Best of luck with your projects, your centaurs are amazing. | |
| 9 Mar 2008 |  Nathan Ford | I did see it but that was on friday? anyways it looks like they deleted the picture I had drawn. oh well I wouldnt blame them, either way I will have to look at it again tomorrow, job corps has Photobucket blocked.  Jill Johansen replies: "It’s it’s own thread, I keep updating it. " | |
| 14 Mar 2008 |  Nathan Ford | Hey Jill, what would you say if I gave up on my art? I mean I have been drawing people for about a year and a half and this is the best I have done, I started in drawing anime, and now I am not improving much anymore, just curious what you would think if I actually finalized my thinking process and gave it up  Jill Johansen replies: "Do you enjoy drawing? if so, don’t worry if it doesn’t look fantastic, just do it for the enjoyment. If you want to improve, you can’t force it, you’ll just depress yourself when you can’t do what you visualize. Almost every artist is very self critical, you have to use it as a tool to push yourself forward rather than let it hold you back because you’re angsting over not being as good as that next artist over there, because there will *always* be someone better than you. By all means try to improve if you wish, but it’s not something that will happen quickly, and the only way to improve is to draw. If you want a pick me up, go to any long running web comic, PvP, Penny Arcade, whatever, and view the very first strip. I guarantee you the first one will look like utter crap compared to the stuff they’re doing currently, and your art, anyones art, will do the same thing, (unless they were really talented when they started, then it will change less... but most started by having an idea but not knowing how to draw so well, and they learned as they went along) given enough time and practice. But if you look from strip to strip, the change is so gradual as to be virtually undetectable. (most people delete old pictures once the difference in quality is too great from their current stuff, which is why a web comic is good, they NEED to keep the old stuff to preserve continuity  )
*edit - you also may want to try doing your own style, rather than copy others styles. I know you like anime and some of what you do is fan art, but I personally enjoy fan art that puts a new spin on the characters, rather than copying the style of the show (or whatever) slavishly. You’ll probably develop artistically faster and more naturally that way." | |
| 17 Mar 2008 |  Nathan Ford | Wow I didn’t excpect that lengt of a reply. lol to be honest I expected a "you better not" or something like that. thanks for the help in the situation Jill. You really are an inspiring artist. The problem with my art though, well one of them, I cant do the clothing from my memory, I normally put them in front view than I can but otherwise It sucks. and I here you on the artist being their worst critic. another thing is getting the picture from my mind to the paper. | |
| 27 May 2008 |  Laura Mai | love your work. so original. keep it up. i want to see more | |
| 3 Jul 2008 | Mark mosley | I find your artistic styling unique and a pleasure to veiw.Your use of colours are also admirable .May God add keep blessing your gift . | |
| 19 Nov 2008 | Eric | I’m getting the Horus penny tattooed on me next weekend. Love it. If you like I can send you a picture, just let me know. | |
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