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| Julie Bell, Irene Gallo, Rebecca Guay, Lauren Panepinto, Zoe Robinson, Julie Bell, Elizabeth Leggett |
It was my extreme honor to gather a few of the most amazing brains in SF/F illustrating, and ask them a few questions about being a women in the field today. I give you the
Women In Fantasy Roundtable discussion with Julie Bell, Irene Gallo, Rebecca Guay, Lauren Panepinto, Zoe Robinson, Julie Bell, and Elizabeth Leggett. A powerful line of of highly influential art directors and award winning artists.
"There’s been a lot of talk about gender parity in the SF
illustrating field, about how few women, percentage-wise, are working as
illustrators—especially since at least half of art students are female.
Did your gender ever come into play in your careers? What are your
thoughts about what causes this attrition?
Panepinto: These are definitely conversations Irene
and I have had before, trying to think of all the female names, who’s
working and who’s not, and it seems like there are so many female
students that are into it right now, but then where are the working
artists?
Robinson: I think it’s just recently that it hasn’t
been just the hardheaded girls toughing it out. It’s been very recently
that generally, girls are aware that this is something that they’re
invited and allowed to do.
Panepinto: I think that it also comes out of the YA
fiction. Harry Potter’s got such strong characters—Hermione’s such a
great female character—and The Hunger Games.
Dillon: I’ve done most of my work online, working by
myself at home, so it’s difficult to gauge sometimes if gender has come
into play in terms of my career path. Early on, it felt pretty
isolating not seeing many other women in the big art forums at the time,
but there have been more and more women becoming more visible in the
field over the years...." ~read more
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| art work by Rebecca Guay, Julie Dillon, Elizabeth Leggett, and Julie Bell |
