[4] After work in traditional painting, Revoy started using digital tools in 2003 and moved to use free and open-source software around 2009.
She is aided by her cat Carrot, and lives with her mentors Thyme, Cayenne, and Cumin in a house in the forest of Squirrel's End.
Revoy suggests the business model allows the comic to stay independent and does not have to resort to advertising.
[10][11] On the webcomic's webpage he extensively explains his philosophy, the reasons for wanting to cut out intermediaries between artist and audience, and why he does not put any content behind a paywall.
Glénat then offered to be the top patron of the webcomic, and Revoy retained the copyright and creative control over it.
[16] In a 2016 interview, Revoy conveyed that he used Photoshop and Corel Painter for 10 years (and Manga Studio and Sony Vegas) until a computer purchase in 2009 which included Windows Vista.
[7] Revoy commented on the experience saying "That was a really bad week: [I] had to spend a lot of money and my productivity was totally ruined.
"[7] He sold the new computer and bought one that could still run Windows XP, but realized it was not a viable long-term solution.
[18] After the failed computer purchase in 2009, Revoy started to move away from using Windows by configuring a dual boot with Linux Mint 4.0,[5] compiling Wacom driver, modifying Xorg, and writing a Xsetwacom script to handle his Cintiq 12Wx.
[16] He then switched to Linux and got involved in free software projects like MyPaint and Gimp-painter (a fork of GIMP), and later Krita.
[26] Revoy's images has been used in research described as "training a computer to turn pencil sketches into cleaned line-art.
"[28][29] In 2022, Revoy had noted that his 2006 work "Narcissus & Echo"[30] was popular among scholars, and for use in theses and books about mythology, but tracking royalties and granting permissions for editing it was becoming cumbersome.
[34] Revoy has started a less serial, more anthological comic also set in Hereva called Mini Fantasy Theater.
[35] It is intended as a spiritual sequel or companion series to Pepper&Carrot as the original comic's run continues into the mid-2020s.
[37] In 2015, Revoy expressed a long-term vision to create an animation studio which only produces works under free licenses.
[13]: 36m38s To finance his work, Revoy accepts donations via Patreon, Liberapay, Tipeee, PayPal, and wire transfers.
"Electron Donor" (2010), a sci-fi illustration for which Revoy drew inspiration from Blade Runner, Miyasaki, and Pixar 10.