Interview with Melanie Delon

I usually paint mostly girls because I always try to represent a feeling in my paintings, and to get it right I need to identify myself to the character, obviously it’s easier when it’s a woman. But I’ll do man, don’t worry (I’ve done one for Imagine fx issue57 cover, a vampire!), not a classic heroic fantasy characters, probably more normal man, with a lot of class/style…

Before creating anything you done some research and pencil drawing or directly on the digital canvas? What is your favorite canvas color when starting a painting?

I used to start my paintings without previous studies, but I recently changed my work process, and do pencil researches. They are really simple and rough, but they help me a lot to know where I want to go with an illustration. I don’t have a particular favorite color, but I do have one I really don’t like: pink. I have huge difficulties to work with this color, especially when I mix it with blue.

Have you seen or used the Adobe Photoshop CS5? Which feature you like the most and what is still missing?

Yes, CS5 is awesome, they have finally added feature for painting. The new brushes are really really cool. And the mixer brush tool is simply amazing, it’s like a small painter in Photoshop, and I do hope they will develop this feature in their next updates. For the moment, I would like them to let us create our own bristles brushes.