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YOUR local SAY artist<br />
INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST Kit10<br />
illustrations<br />
One thing that crosses all our interests,<br />
whether it’s video games,<br />
board games, anime, figurines,<br />
comics etc, is the amazing artwork.<br />
Without the artists creating characters<br />
and backdrops we see in our<br />
entertainment our enjoyment would<br />
be no where near the same.<br />
In fact it’s that artwork, whether it’s<br />
realistic as in a racing sim or a fantasy<br />
quest of some sort, that suspends<br />
our disbelief enough for us<br />
to forget about the real world and<br />
all it’s troubles and stresses and be<br />
immersed in an alternate world of<br />
enjoyment.<br />
Continuing our support of Australian<br />
artists from last month, we<br />
caught up with another local artist<br />
with amazing skills, Kit10 Illustrations,<br />
who’s based in Adelaide and<br />
we think has a tremendous future<br />
ahead.<br />
Welcome to <strong>Live</strong>, tell us a bit about<br />
yourself:<br />
I’m an 18-year-old artist who comes<br />
from the country town of Whyalla,<br />
SA. I moved to Adelaide early this<br />
year and I’m currently studying an<br />
Advanced Diploma of Professional<br />
Game Development, with a specialisation<br />
in Game Art, at the Academy<br />
of Interactive Entertainment.<br />
How did you get into art?<br />
I’ve loved creating art for as long<br />
as I can remember; even as a child<br />
I was always drawing and painting.<br />
In the third grade of school, I had a<br />
teacher named Matt Mallee, who<br />
worked painting backdrops for the<br />
local cinema, and was a freelance<br />
artist in his own time. He taught<br />
me so many different methods of<br />
drawing and colouring, which really<br />
helped develop my love and interest<br />
for art!<br />
And what’s your favourite type of<br />
art?<br />
My favourite kind of art at the moment<br />
is digital art. I love drawing<br />
people and characters - both fullbody<br />
and portraiture. My art style<br />
fluctuates a lot, but I usually try to<br />
stick to semi-realism.<br />
Who inspires you?<br />
I’m not sure who directly inspired<br />
me to get into art. I’ve been doing it<br />
for so long I can barely remember,<br />
but I know Matt definitely played a<br />
part. I’ve had a lot of different artistic<br />
influences and inspirations<br />
throughout the years. When I was<br />
younger, I used to enjoy creating<br />
anime-styled pieces and fanart - I<br />
remember looking up to artists like<br />
Tite Kubo and Yana Toboso.<br />
Now, I can easily say my single biggest<br />
influence is Wenqing Yan; otherwise<br />
known under her pen name<br />
Yuumei.<br />
What’s been your biggest<br />
challenges?<br />
So far, my biggest challenge has<br />
been working with mediums I’m not<br />
used to. I generally try to avoid the<br />
areas I’m not good at rather than<br />
trying to improve them, unfortunately!<br />
I tend to give up on pictures<br />
that are proving to be out of my skill<br />
level.<br />
That being said, I struggled a lot<br />
with a picture of Orta from the<br />
game Panzer Dragoon: Orta. The<br />
green of her dragon against the<br />
peach-coloured background wasn’t<br />
working out, and the perspective of<br />
the image was too difficult for me to<br />
work with. I only managed to get it<br />
half-finished.<br />
I also have a ridiculous amount of<br />
struggle with drawing hands!<br />
What tools do you use to create?<br />
For my art, I’m using a Wacom Intuos<br />
Pen and Touch (Medium) tablet.<br />
The art program I use is called<br />
FireAlpaca; which seems to be almost<br />
completely unheard of. It’s a<br />
free to download program that can<br />
be found online, and I love working<br />
with it!