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| Katie and her bro |
A cartoonist, animator and storyboard artist from Toronto, Canada, it was perhaps not the professional animations that she had worked on that made her well known (Though she has worked on cartoons for PBS Kids, Cartoon Network, Mattel and National Geographic Kids), but her Harry Potter fan comic strips "Simply Potterifics" which can all be viewed here:
Katie's especially enjoys working on comics, and has contributed to numerous graphic novel projects and has independently published a few of her own in collaboration with her brother Steven "Shaggy" Shanahan, who normally does the writing.
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| "Silly Kingdom", KT and Shaggy's First Self Published Comic |
When drawing at her own leisure, Katie tends to explore a lot with coloring styles and mediums, which really differentiates her fan art from that of other artists', she especially has the widest and most original range of expressions I have ever seen, and is easily able to explore an equally wide variety of body shapes and poses.
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| Sailor Moon (Watercolors) |
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| "Nekkid fairy time" (Sketchbook Pro, Copic Marker Feature) |
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| Life Drawing |
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| Color Studies |
Katie is a huge inspiration to me when it comes to my more animated works, she has such an amazing gift in exaggerating expressions and body language, I hope to reach her level of carefree and loose designs as I continue to improve on my own work.
It was also Katie that indirectly warned me (And many others interested in this area) about how incredibly busy the life of an animator tends to be (Such as storyboarding or animating yourself blind each day), but hey, I still went for it didn't I?
http://ktshy.deviantart.com
http://ktshy.deviantart.com
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