THRA Artist Spotlight: Priscilla Bampoh

Sketchbooks and Scratchpads Exclusive Interview

This run of The High Republic Adventures has brought back the stunning variant covers we all love, with some brand new artists to collaborate with the team. Sketchbooks and Scratchpads had the honor of getting to chat with the brilliant illustrator who created the THRA Variant cover for Issue #5, and get you guys an inside look at the process of drawing a comic cover for Star Wars!

Sketchbooks and Scratchpads: Hi Priscilla, welcome to the team! First, how about you introduce yourself to everyone?

PRISCILLA: I’m Priscilla Bampoh, a Black-British freelance illustrator and have been working in the field for just about 5 years now. It wasn’t until my mid-20s that I decided to turn a lifelong hobby into a serious career. Since then, a lot of my work has been promotional fanworks for indie games, comic covers and a few children’s novels.

I’ve just recently finished my Illustration MA hoping to figure out the ideal path I wanted to pursue. I struggle with where I would place my art commercially - I worry that my art may not fit what people look for in children’s illustrations or that my art looks too cartoonish for other types of work. This is why I love working on comic covers, especially now that diverse art styles are given more space, I feel like I fit in just fine as long as I put in the effort.