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1. What initially drew you to comics?
My grandmother. When I was a toddler all my bedtime stories from her were about the Hulk or Spider-Man. As I got older she’d buy them for me to read which would result in me telling her my own stories that I made up. So much so that I wouldn’t be quiet in church so she told me to start writing and drawing all these ideas. She’d hand me a notebook on a Friday and tell me to fill it up over the weekend with stories and art. Then as I got older I decided to pursue it full time after Hurricane Katrina had me start over right after getting my undergraduate degree. Before then I had dabbled with some freelance but hadn’t fully committed. Moved to Savannah to get my Master's in Sequential art from Scad and have never stopped since.
2. Please tell us about your creative process.
How can I make this a short answer? LOL. But for the most part, it starts with my influences. I tend to get ideas that spawn from whatever I’m reading, watching or playing. Then I start mixing those ideas. For example, if I watch a dark drama I’ll say what if I mix that type of story but with anime-inspired Shonen characters. Like what if Ozark met Naruto lol. Figuring out how that would work always sparks my imagination. From there would be writing bullet point ideas for the story and sketching out characters. Then scripting, if I’m working alone my script is mostly dialogue direction. Then thumbnails/rough pages. Then inks, then colors and letters.
3. Please tell us about Pax Samson (and any other titles you'd like to share about).
Pax is a story I co-created and wrote with Jason Reeves of 133art. Set in a world that mixes sci-fi and fantasy, it tells the story of a kid who's great at cooking and comes from a family of well-known superheroes who all want him to join them in saving the day and while he has a strong set of psionic powers he’s not very good at using them. Volume one is all about him figuring out if he should be a hero which he wants to do but is not skilled at or keep doing what comes naturally, which is cooking. Along the way he’s going to team up with his Grandma who’s a folklore-inspired champion who’s the world's most famous superhero and has been for about 400 years. His aunt who’s a time-traveling, energy-wielding martial artist, and his mom who’s essentially a power ranger. LOL.
Jeremiah Justice is a children’s book series I’m the illustrator for with author Melissa Miles. Stars a kid hero who uses his tracheostomy tube channel is wind-based superpowers. Book one and two are both out on Amazon!
4. Where can we find more information about your work?
My Instagram is updated the most frequently. Instagram.com/rashaddoucet or my website: https://rashaddoucet.artstation.com
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