Playful, But Kinda Dark – An Interview with Amber Huff

We were fortunate enough to be able to sit down and talk with Amber Huff, one of the artists in Wayward Kindred (a comic that this staff writer absolutely adored).

BNP: So, first off let’s start with an “easy” question, what’s your origin story as an artist? Amber: My origin story as an artist… I’ve been drawing since I was a kid. I started drawing for Neopets, for all sorts of different online communities. It was at least where I got some start with digital art, after getting my first tablet and all of that stuff. My educational background is in graphic design, so it was still an artistic environment throughout school. Strangely enough, even as a graphic design major, we were required to take drawing classes and sculpture and all of these other art classes so that kinda helped me hold on to my interest in illustration and things like that even throughout college. BNP: What are some of your biggest inspirations and influences? Amber: My influences change a lot, really by what I’m reading and looking at right now. I’m always inspired by nature, and nostalgic stories inspire my comics work a lot. I love artists that have work that translates well over print media, digital, and apparel. I’m reading GLEEM by Freddy Carrasco. Mooncakes by Wendy Xu is really good. Whatever I’m looking at at the moment, those are always pretty big inspirations for me. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4bDf90jLJT/ BNP: Pivoting off of that, how did you get involved with Wayward Kindred with your author…