Artists make the world go round, and never cease to amaze us with their talent, tenacity, and tendency to know the future trends before we do. Class of The Future is a series of interviews with eight absolutely astronomical talents from Australia, who are the up-and-comers ready to change the game.
This talented illustrator has her own style sorted at such a young age, and effortlessly implements it in unique and whacky drawings – her muses: the weird and complex faces she comes across in her daily life.
Rosemary Vasquez Brown undeniably has the best name of anyone ever, and created the cover for UTS’ last Queer Vertigo Magazine and also The Brag Magazine’s second edition of the year, The Power Edition. At this point, she’s a cover girl, and it’s no wonder why. Everyone is simply addicted to her exaggerated lips and lines that she implements in her art.
“People are weird, and I love drawing people because of that,” she says in our interview, which is filled with laughs and ruminations on the odd shapes of peoples faces, which inextricably influences the unique art style that Brown has.
For the Class of the Future, Rosemary has handed in a piece called “The Crowd”, which features everything that makes her artwork so special. Odd characters, a field of stories everywhere you look, and lines that vary from mysterious and curvy, to dark and shadowy.
Check out the interview with this incredible artist below:
Interview with Rosemary Vasquez Brown
How did your love of art start?
I’ve always loved movies, and I was originally going to do graphic design or something like that, and then I saw animation and thought ‘Oh that sounds cool’. I used to just want to make art, but now I’m all about wanting to make a film that’s hopefully live-action and animated in my own style and stuff. That’s kind of like the dream. I just love seeing work move.
What’s your artistic specialty?
Illustration definitely. With a little bit of movement. I like to make them move a little bit.
How do you feel about being the cover girl of The Brag Magazine’s second edition this year?
I loved it so much, I was so big-headed about it, told everyone about it, told all my cousins to go to JB Hi-Fi to get a copy telling them that their cousin is famous.
Do you have any kind of inspiration behind your drawings?
It depends on if I see like a weird face, with weird wrinkles and stuff. I’ve always said that I want a partner with like a really weird profile, because I’d draw them every day.
You have such a unique style when drawing faces too, where did it come from?
I don’t know, it just kind of came out when I tried to do realism, and this was the result. I thought ‘oh, this is cool. It looks pretty at least.”
Where has your artwork gotten you?
I’m just so lucky to be able to get jobs and stuff doing something that I love so much. And also people asking me to do stuff in my own style without me having to comprise because they love my style so much. My style has changed crazily throughout the years. Hopefully it’s for the best because some people may be like ‘Oh I liked that style you had in 2003’ and I’ll be like well great but I’m over here now.
What do you feel comes out in your artwork in regards to themes?
Love and relationships. Like a mother hugging a child, cute stuff like that. I’ve really been getting into comics a lot lately too, they’re fun.
The Class of the Future, Sydney’s rising artists you need to keep an eye on.
Top Row left to right: Erin Sutherland, Sara Hirner, Jimmy Nevell, Nancy Li.
Bot Row left to right: Olivia Serrao, Rosemary Vasquez Brown, Connor Xia.
(*missing from group photo: Anne-Simone El Sokkary)
