About the Artist
Name: Heather Loch
Nicknames: Loch, Lochingbird, Lin
Year Born: 1995
Graduate
High school : Woodgrove, 2013
College: James Madison University, 2017 - BFA Studio art: Painting and Drawing - Awarded for Printmaking
Resident: USA East Coast
Published artist: Love Cookies by Walter Lutz
Preferred Mediums
Traditional: Ink drawings, Pen and pencil sketches, Acrylics if painting
Digital: Line art, characters studies, Cell Shading, Form Rendering, lots and lots of layers unless doing a painting-type render.
Experience
Traditional Mediums:
2D: Pencil, Pen (ballpoint, Quill tip, Felt tip), Acrylic, Watercolor, Charcoal
3D: Clay (including polymer types), paper, wire, Minor fiber arts and needle felting
Digital Programs:
2D: Photoshop (various versions), Older Coral Paintshop Pro, Clipstudio Paint
3D: Blender, minor experience with Zbrush (couldn't go past free trial)
Working experience in word processing programs, spreadsheets, and PowerPoints.
Very quick to learn, though maintained proficiency requires consistent use of the skills
Preferred Subjects
Animals and Fantasy Creatures, in stand-alone studies or Comics/sequential panels.
Worldbuilding of fantasy worlds is also a passion of mine, original and new, or filling in the gaps of existing worlds. (Pokémon theories, Monster hunter theories, and helping to solve problems connecting dots when friends are worldbuilding as well.)
Career?
What have I done since graduation? Well... Burnout is real and powerful. I've worked in garden centers and flower fields since, it's very nice to be outside and plants are interesting to observe (as well as the bugs that live around them). I've done some individual commissions, some live drawings at local events, and I've sold some art at some local shops (though I find trying to do marketing for myself to be a challenge). I've participated in a few game jams, and a few years ago began to feel like a real person who could start to really make a foothold in the world.
And then a global pandemic happened.
And now we're here.
Focus towards the future, I want to help create convincing characters and powerful, moving stories that both help people escape from the everyday world while also allowing them to analyze the world we live in and see things in a new light. Through comics, games, book illustrations, any would be grand. I want to give people gut-punches of emotion while also providing catharsis, and maybe, just maybe, I might be able to help people learn to love and accept one another.
Preferred Working Environment
While I need time to focus by myself and recharge, I am encouraged to work through the excitement of others. So anywhere that can balance working alone with group collaboration and brainstorming (oh how I love to bounce ideas back and forth between excited and invested teammates).
Inspirations
An artist cannot create without also consuming
Here's a non-comprehensive list of people and things that inspire me to create and that are given my invested interest. (in no specific order) (links coming soon)
My Friends
(Names listed with consent, others shall be anonymous)
There since 7th grade, my partner in worldbuilding and overanalyzing media
Debbie / Ryetaran - DebbTrader.com
To those who have kept me sane through this pandemic, I am thankful to have met you before the world turned upside down. You all have helped me find the spark to continue drawing <3
Ian / Caesura
KC
To those from Highschool, though we may have drifted, I would not be the same without you, my love and hopes towards all you do.
Hannah Devinney - https://www.umu.se/en/staff/hannah-devinney/
Bo Shilkey - https://www.instagram.com/withcallousedhands/
Web Comics
Unsounded by Ashley Cope
Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell
El Goonish Shive by Dan Shive
Wilde Life by Pascalle Lepas
Paranatural by Zack Morrison
Daughter of the Lillies by Meg Syverud and colored by Jessica "Yoko" Weaver
Never Satisfied by Taylor Robin
Vainglorious by Kelly Bull
Goblins by Ellipsis Stephens
Stand Still. Stay Slient by Minna Sundberg
A Retail's Dream by Minna Sundberg
Tiger, Tiger by Petra Erika Nordlund
Ava's Demon by Michelle Fus
Broken by Kristina Caruso
A Tale of Two Rulers by Lor (FigmentForms)
Artists
Allison Theus
Devin Elle Kurtz
Games
Minecraft (including modded)
Pokémon
Monster Hunter
Supergiant Games - Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hades
Heart Machine- Hyperlight Drifter, (yet to play Solar Ash)
Pillars of Eternity I & II
Okami
Dishonored I and II
Streamers/Youtubers
Critical Role
Dimension 20
Hermitcraft
Frankenbugs/Facefullabugs