I am 28-years-old (yikes!) and currently I reside in Tennessee with my husband of 6 years and my daughter and two step-daughters. Life is busy with the kids but I am most often doing my artwork and focusing my energy towards my next idea. I often draw and digitally color my work to music. I love listening to Ladytron, Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, and various anime series theme songs while I work. Something about music really opens my mind to more ideas and puts me in a nice relaxed state while I draw and occasionally I'll just turn music off altogether and watch Monty Python's Holy Grail in the background so I can have a good laugh while I work.

Some questions I receive regularly:

Aside from your website, can I find you anywhere else?

Most definitely! Here are a couple places I frequent:

Deviant art: http://clrkrex.deviantart.com
Myspace: http://myspace.com/chrissyschibis

How do you get the colors on your pieces so rich and bright?

I attribute this to doing only digital vector work. I was never satisfied with colors in my traditional endevours. Never could I get the colors I really wanted and never were they solid enough or bright or dark enough, so when I saw digital art pieces for the first time, I knew this is what I meant for.

What is vector?

Here's a definition I found online about vector graphics: A line or movement defined by its end points, or by the current position and one other point.
Not the best description huh? Well, how I usually explain it is instead of with rasterized digital art where you paint or draw with your tablet or mouse, vector art is solid colors and lines on a fixed point. As you draw a vector line, where you want it to curve, you click your mouse and it creates a point to bend around. Vector also mainly deals with solid colors and is not as easy the blend as with a raster program.

So why vector?

I actually just sort of stumbled onto a vector program one day, downloaded a trial, and fell in love! Even though it is more difficult to figure out while 'inking and coloring' complex characters, it always gives me the rich cell-shading and coloring look that I've always wanted. I also find that, in my opinion, my pieces come out much cleaner and precise looking than I ever thought possible.

What program do you use?

My program of choice is Microsoft Expression Design. I've been using it for over a year now and it has not disappointed me once. I am very much in love with this program. :)

Do you take fan arts, fan mail, or photos?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE to receive fan mail, art, photos! I have a whole section of my site dedicated to it so don't be shy! I always answer my fan mail personally, and I do not care what skill level in drawing you are or anything like that, I LOVE to see it and I will gladly post it on my site! So please do not be shy! You can send them to artist@chrissyclark.com.