David Revoy

[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.

The permissive license of the webcomic Pepper&Carrot has allowed several episodes of it to be remixed into animated short films by the Morevna Project, here "The Potion Contest".
Revoy received the CG Choice Award for his 2010 work "Alice in Wonderland". In 2022, Revoy re-licensed the work from CC-BY-NC-SA to the more permissive CC-BY 4.0 international. [ 24 ]