Danke, Fabienne!
How nice to see some lines in "Muttersprache". Wow, you have many questions, I just try to give you a decent response to them.
My relation to comics and cartoons is somehow weired. I am actually not a pro-comic reader, but I like the art a lot. When I remember me as a child watching cartoons (you know... these short cartoons in kids TV with Pluto, Tom and Jerry, all this stuff), I was not touched by the stories, but by the images themselves. Because I started drawing early, I dreamed of being able to do draw like this....
When I used "kiddy style" in the former post, I meant the shapes of buildings being not very realistic, more roundish and cute. You can compare it maybe with my post about Erfurt as a comic city, this is what I would call more a style for adults. It is just my description for the style itself, I would not say that this is also a reader's category.
Unfortunately, I almost stopped drawing in my teenage years. Even if my strongest wish in my childhood was to be an Illustrator, I left this path and turned into science. I concentrated to this career (I am working in the field of biophysics at Jena University Hospital) more than 100%. There was no space for art. :-(. But now as I finally (!!!!) can be a bit more relaxed about my job, I immediately found the way back to drawing.
And I found that my dream of making a childrens book or comic is not totally gone. That's why I am here. I guess here I get the motivation, the feedback, the teaching and everything what I need not to loose this path again. There are some ideas in my mind which are developing while I am reading all this interesting posts in this forum. It is so inspiring.
About inspiring artists you should read the post, which appeared just the other day about this topic. Otherwise this one gets too long... Hear you soon.
Liebe Grüße aus Jena,
Jana