I've been drawing ever since I can remember, in elementary school I aspired to be an animator (and work for Disney). In 5th grade I got into comic books and collecting trading cards, my favorite being X-Men. I studied the art in these books and became interested in making them too.
In high school I took every possible art class including AP Portfolio I, II and a new Digital Arts trial class with only about five other students. But at 16 I began to shy away from my dedication to art and discovered a new love for music and DJing. I shifted all my attention to the music scene and for about six years I hardly drew. This is where my name of "Danielle Soloud" originates ("Soloud" pronounced So-Loud), which makes more sense when you're a DJ! At about 22 years old I started to get out of the scene and for about three years or so after I didn't do much of anything except work behind a desk in an office job.
I then started to re-evaluate my life and think about what I wanted to do. For a while I heavily considered becoming a screenwriter. I learned how to write them and had a few scripts started. But something was missing!
Eventually I came back to the idea of doing art for a living. To be honest I resorted back to art because it was what I knew and had done for so long. But getting back to drawing after being away from it wasn't as easy as I thought. I was completely out of practice and it was frustrating and upsetting. After a while I remembered how much I loved it and missed it... it's a passion and who I am. I became angry with myself for drifting away from drawing and felt I had to push myself twice as hard to catch up to where I should have been if I would have kept at it.
I enrolled in community college for an art degree, but couldn't decide on illustration or animation. I took basic foundation courses in the meantime. I discovered school isn't for me and decided to go ahead and pursue a career as an artist. Similar to my younger days, I have little to no interest in anything except drawing and essentially that really is all I do.
I've worked on many sketch card sets participating in licenses such as Marvel, DC, Vampirella, Lady Death, and many more. I have been published in Voltron coffee art book, IDW's Womanthology, 5finity's Zombies vs Cheerleaders comics, and more recently Action Lab's Dollface comics. I had my own sketch card sets released by 5finity: Succubus Sweethearts, Succubus Sweethearts II: Fire N Brimstone Beach, and Succubus Sweethearts III: Seasonal Sugar and Spice.
Thanks for stopping by and taking an interest in my work and supporting me, if you see me at a convention please come by and introduce yourself!
email: hi@daniellegransaull.com