Episode 7 – The Red Mage

Explicit content warning

08/01/13 • -1 min

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This month on We’re Gonna Make It! our focus is less on medium and more on method. Our guest is most prominently a comic artist, but she is also an illustrator, a writer, a feltcrafter, a soapmaker, a chef, a sculptor, and an aspiring organic farmer. But above all these other titles to choose from, our guest, Sydney More, prefers to identify with this little fellow: If you’re like Taylor, you’ll need to listen to the episode to really understand the reference.

Sydney More’s work can be seen through her tumblr at sydmore.tumblr.com. Her Homo Erectus comic series can be found at The Paltry Sapien, and she usually can be spotted at a variety of comic art festivals.

Keeping in line with the diverse nature of Sydney’s portfolio, this month Taylor and Moss embarked on a rather lengthy exploration of many different artistic mediums. After thirty days of experimentation, each host selected five of their finished pieces to lay at Sydney’s feet for the inevitable judgement.

Competition Pieces

Taylor’s Artwork

Moss’ Artwork

This episode’s soundtrack includes tracks from Final Fantasy, composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

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Competition Pieces

Taylor’s Artwork

Moss’ Artwork

This episode’s soundtrack includes tracks from Final Fantasy, composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

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Episode 6 – The Illustrator

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I hope you liked our previous episode on illustration (See Episode 4 with Renee Nault) because this month we dig that freshly buried horse right back up and beat it until flies come out.

Our guest this month is the mildly sinister Laura Bifano, who took better use of our “explicit” rating than any of our previous guests – even the chefs, which I find quite surprising. It also appears that Taylor and I have met Laura before, but none of us remembered it until part-way through the interview when we discovered a previously unrealized link between our lives. Fateful!

Laura bobs between Victoria and Vancouver as she pursues her work as a freelance illustrator, and routinely provides work for magazines, studios, and art shows across North America. Her portfolio can be found at http://www.laurabifano.com/

“Badger” from the Menagerie Series

“Encounters at the Edge of the Multiverse”

The contest Laura subjected to us in this episode had a rather psychological slant to it and once again forced us to contend with an unfamiliar medium.

I won’t spoil the episode any further, but I will say that the contest had a great deal to do with this oddity that Laura painted for a 2012 art show at the AGGV.

“Alain” from the Cube Portrait Series

As always, we will post our competition pieces below, but do yourself a favour and listen to the episode before you look at them!

Competition Pieces

Moss’ Painting

(Turns out that a picture drawn in pastel is still called a painting. Huh.)

Taylor’s Painting

This episode’s soundtrack includes the following tracks by OLAV:

(Laura’s Theme)

(Encounters at the Edge of the Multiverse Ambiance)