Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Savana Bogue. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Savana, appreciate you joining us today. Naming anything – including a business – is so hard. Right? What’s the story behind how you came up with the name of your brand?

It was originally going to be Savvy Inks, based off my old nickname. But after some brainstorming, I felt having something to do with an animal might be more eye catching. RatAttack came about because it was fun to say, and I just really like rats! Though I find my work vehicle getting mixed up with an exterminators vehicle a lot…. But it also worked with the tag line I wanted to use, The Mark of Mischief!

Savana, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I got into art simply by being surrounded by it! My grandmother was a professional airbrush artist for as long as I can remember, working midways and carnivals. I’d spend my summers working for and with her, and falling in love with the lifestyle. When it comes to having found my own style? That one is simple! Was staying up far too late and watching Inuyasha, and I connected the dots that someone had drawn those animation frames, and if someone else did it? I could too.
Soon enough I fell in love with the style, and after a few years I finally got to go to my first comic convention. The artist alley felt like home, and when I saw artists offering their own art and even on site commissions; it was only a matter of time. My first year of convention work was a doozie, with FanX SLC being in the line of those first conventions I ever worked. But little by little I figured it out, and now try to help others figure out their first booths!

I keep my own a bit different from the rest by still continuing to offer on site traditional commissions, even at my biggest shows. It was something that made me fall in love with comic conventions, and I couldn’t see myself ever stopping. On top of that, I like to keep my available prints atuned to things I love, so I tend to offer quite a few niche designs and fanarts.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Perfection.

I had to unlearn the desire to have every piece be perfect. I had to learn that perfection is the biggest killer of progress. And that it is better to have tried and finished a project then to never start because it wasn’t ‘perfect’. Most of the mistakes I see in my art? Most everyone else doesn’t.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

When I stopped attempting to make prints of whatever was popular and started to draw things I genuinely loved. I spent too long trying to draw prints and designs inspired by whatever media was big, and I lost a lot of time to it. Drawing what makes me happy? That’s been doing leaps and bounds over trying to conform.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/ratattackstudios
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ratattackstudios?igsh=emw5a3huaGJ0Mm8x&utm_source=qr
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savana-bogue-837b96140?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app