Meghan Wilson's Projects

BFA Student

Major: Illustration

Graduation Year: 2017

Artist Statement:

My senior thesis is an autobiographical comic book titled MECA and ME: A Four Year Journey. It is about my experience at Maine College of Art. The focus of the story is on the anxiety I developed throughout my time at the school and how I have learned to control it.
I decided to make my characters anthropomorphic cats because I am able to use exaggerated antics and expressions that combine human desires with feline cunning. This allows me to explore a wide range of emotions that helps to tell the story in an engaging and humorous way.
Leaving MECA, I have a greater understanding of how to tell a compelling narrative through my art. My education has prepared me to create comic strips, comic books, graphic novels and any other kind of illustration that comes my way.

Biography:

Meghan Wilson is an Illustrator from Massachusetts. Her passion is to create memorable characters and stories that captivate audiences. Her main tools of trade are either Photoshop or Paint Tool Sai. Meghan pulls much of her inspiration from watching documentaries, Disney movies and reading comic books. She is currently self- publishing a web comic series called ‘Fire’ about prehistoric people. The comic can be found on the websites ‘Tumblr’ and ‘Tapastic.’ Meghan has designed a concept logo for the website ‘Survivors.io’ which is a site dedicated to aiding rape survivors. Her hobbies include needle felting, making clay figures, and playing with her cat.