Talking What it Takes to Make Magic with Maria Llovet of Faithless

So now that we’ve talked about Faithless in preparation for Faithless II, we had a chance to talk to Maria Llovet, a multidisciplinary artist from Barcelona, responsible for the visual beauty for the series.

BNP: To open up a bit more generally, what are your preferred processes and mediums (print v. digital) for comic book creation? Llovet: I love working digitally, all my work is digital in fact. I used to work on a regular graphic tablet until the iPad Pro came out. That was a huge change, getting back to looking at what I was drawing directly instead of at the computer screen was mindblowing, I work much more comfortably now.The only down side of working digitally is that there are no originals of my work. It saddens me a bit, even if I’m not a paper and ink romantic. I really enjoy digital! I like to do something manual from time to time, but mostly for myself or to get my mind off things. I love painting on fabric for example.

BNP: What are the challenges of working on both Heartbeat, a comic you write/illustrate, and Faithless? / How do you distinguish the styles of the two since they both co-exist within the horror genre? Llovet: Well, Heartbeat is an old work, it was originally published in Spain in 2015, and my style has evolved a lot since. It actually was after finishing Heartbeat that I knew I needed a change, I wasn’t happy with the direction I was heading to, and I started experimenting a bit more. It’s a never-ending learning process, but I’m much happier no…