"I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that"
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There’s a quiet demystifying move in David Lloyd’s comment: the romantic image of the artist as a solitary genius gets replaced by something more human, almost logistical. “I just sit at the drawing board most of the time” isn’t a boast about discipline; it’s a reminder that the job is hours, not aura. And then he pivots to the part that’s usually treated as optional or “selling out”: conventions, feedback, conversation. For Lloyd, the public-facing side isn’t a marketing tax on real work. It’s a form of fuel.
The subtext is a small rebellion against a purity myth in comics and illustration culture, where social energy can be misread as insecurity, neediness, or brand-building. Lloyd frames it instead as temperament: “I am used to talking to people.” That line matters because it normalizes difference without moralizing it. He doesn’t claim the extroverted artist is healthier or more authentic; he also refuses the familiar hierarchy where the quiet one is automatically “serious.”
Contextually, this is a comics-world truth: conventions are where work gets tested in real time, where the audience tells you what landed, what confused, what they carried home. Lloyd’s point is that the creative process doesn’t end at the board; it ricochets off other people. The sharpest insight is his last one: personality “dictates” process. Not talent, not ideology, not some sacred artistic code. Temperament. That’s a liberating, slightly deflationary honesty.
The subtext is a small rebellion against a purity myth in comics and illustration culture, where social energy can be misread as insecurity, neediness, or brand-building. Lloyd frames it instead as temperament: “I am used to talking to people.” That line matters because it normalizes difference without moralizing it. He doesn’t claim the extroverted artist is healthier or more authentic; he also refuses the familiar hierarchy where the quiet one is automatically “serious.”
Contextually, this is a comics-world truth: conventions are where work gets tested in real time, where the audience tells you what landed, what confused, what they carried home. Lloyd’s point is that the creative process doesn’t end at the board; it ricochets off other people. The sharpest insight is his last one: personality “dictates” process. Not talent, not ideology, not some sacred artistic code. Temperament. That’s a liberating, slightly deflationary honesty.
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