This weeks interview- The Pie Kia- James Leong! At least he looked like one, but hes a gentle giant, so dont be afraid of him. -And for those who have not send me their Q and A- please do so...Thanks 1. Can you do a short introduction of yourself? What do you do? I am an advertising veteran, currently freelancing for advertising agencies, doing art direction, illustration and storyboarding. I began to doodle as soon as I could hold a pencil when I was 4 years old. The comics of the 70s to 90s made a huge impact on me. I copied the styles of Hong Kong comics: Bruce Lee and Little Vagabond aka 小流氓 (now called 龙虎门，Dragon Tiger Gate). I borrowed and re-borrowed animal drawing books from the old National Library every 3 weeks to complete copying all of the animals from the books. In the 80s, I drew inspiration from comics of A man called Hero aka 中华英雄 from Hong Kong and Crying Freeman from Japan. Eventually in the 90s, Taiwanese comics also became my influence. From what inspired me, you can gather that I am a big fan of action-genre drawings. Now, I am a comic artist and develop my own webcomics: perfectworldtoday.weebly 2. What inspired you to sketch in the first place? When I was young, I loved photography but the equipment wasnt cheap for a low-income family. The next best way to capture an image was to sketch and I fell in love with it instantly. I love drawing humans and animals, only to discover that these are the most difficult subjects to draw when I have grown up. To improve my drawing in comics, I do urban sketching. It is love at first sight. The amount of details I can see when studying an architectural structure, greenery and the surroundings during urban sketching open my horizon and broaden my vision. 3. Why do you draw this particular piece for the sketchtravel Singapore book? The subject of the sketch is one of the earliest urban projects which is significantly marked as the focus of the place. It was a fountain but now, no longer. I remember walked past this monument to and from school everyday and admired it in awe. Sometimes, I hung around there with other classmates. The neighbourhood was proud of it and still are. They called it: Dragon of Whampoa. 4. What are the art tools you used for this piece? I used a Hero 9038 fountain pen and water colour. This fountain pen model is ink-generous in normal strokes whereas fine, thin lines flow smoothly when invertibly used. I like to use lines to dictate my drawing and apply some light wash with water colours. 5.What memories does your neighbourhood hold for you? It is the estate where I spent my childhood. I used to play soccer in a huge field which could hold 4 soccer pitches but now, a major expressway has cut across it. Sometimes, I gathered a few of my classmates who lived nearby to catch spiders, tadpoles, frogs and grasshoppers. 6. Whats the hardest thing to draw for you? To draw the same subject repeatedly or again, for example like drawing comics when I have to do a sequence of the same person. Thats where I start to explore other angle or perspective. 7. Whats the easiest thing to draw for you? Imaginative subject. It is limited by my own imagination.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:44:04 +0000
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