BELLE VM JULY 2014 | Page 13

And it was interesting because she had never gone through professional training for drawing, and whenever she drew, my father would tear up my work, and sternly told her to stop and to focus on learning other things. That’s why I’ve never picked up sketching. But during her entrance test to design school, she needed to sketch.

She remembered sitting at the first row and looked to her side to see what people were doing. There was a figurine in front of us and she saw that those beside me, who eventually became her classmates, were sketching that figurine, so she followed. So you can say that my first sketch was done at the examination hall!

Everything is a little surreal for Guo who says that it was really “fate” that brought her into this line.

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