This weeks interview-Favian Ee fantastic tight pencil rendering! And an important notice-For those who have not send me their images + Q and A- PLease do so .Email to this addres cktanjames@hotmail Thanks .I hate to unleash the Ah loongs to your house;) You know who you are. 1. Can you do a short introduction of yourself? What do you do? My name is Favian Ee. Ive been drawing all my life and have had an interest in comics and animation since young. I studied computer engineering in uni, but later went back to animation school and am now working in the visual effects industry on some of Hollywoods biggest movies. My other hobbies include reading, writing, traveling, taking photos, listening to and making music. 2. What inspired you to sketch in the first ? Ive always loved drawing, but only took up urban sketching in early 2012 when I first joined the Urban Sketchers Singapore. Their enthusiasm is contagious. Prior to joining them, I used to keep a sketchbook, but I hadnt been using it much for some years, even though Ive kept one ever since I was in junior college (I have a chest-full). Being part of the urban sketching community has been a great inspiration and started me sketching more regularly once again. 3. Why do you draw this particular piece for the sketchtravel Singapore book? I work at Fusionopolis. This is the view from the Level 23 Sky Garden overlooking Ayer Rajah Industrial Park, the AYE, NUH and NUS. On a clear day you can see all the way to Sentosa from one side, and all the way to MBS on the other side. Ive lived much of my life in this area. I attended primary and secondary school at Fairfield Methodist Schools at Dover Road, my industrial attachment during my uni days was in Ayer Rajah Industrial Park, and I also worked for a friends company in this same area for a while some years back. When I was small, I used to stay at my aunts place at Dover Road too. This was where I grew up. 4. What are the art tools you used for this piece? Pencils and erasers. Nothing fancy. I used Staedtler Mars Lumograph. Most of the sketch was done with a 4B, but I also used 6B and 2B here and there. I try to do as little erasing as I can, because erasing tends to damage the paper surface and leave marks. I love pencils. For such a simple tool, they are amazingly versatile. 5.What memories does your neighbourhood hold for you? Mostly school and work. I spent most of my formative years in this area. I loved my years in Fairfield, where I spent a total of 10 years. Many of my good friends are from there. I remember the old pelican playground and the wet market at Dover Road fondly (remembersingapore.org/dover-playground/). There was a bakery too with the smell of freshly baked bread. The playground and market were demolished when the flats were en-bloced. Oddly enough the developer never demolished the flats, opting rather to rent them out to low-income families. Im a bit miffed, because they made my aunt and family move out of her spacious old flat and gave her something half the size in return, only to put those flats up for rental. 6. Whats the hardest thing to draw for you? Moving things. Im not that quick a sketcher and I dont have photographic memory. 7. Whats the easiest thing to draw for you? Stationary things. Like blocky typical modern buildings made of flat geometric shapes.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 03:31:55 +0000
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