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YOUR SAY
local
artist

INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST

Kit10

illustrations
One thing that crosses all our interests, whether it’s video games,
board games, anime, figurines,
comics etc, is the amazing artwork.
Without the artists creating characters and backdrops we see in our
entertainment our enjoyment would
be no where near the same.
In fact it’s that artwork, whether it’s
realistic as in a racing sim or a fantasy quest of some sort, that suspends our disbelief enough for us
to forget about the real world and
all it’s troubles and stresses and be
immersed in an alternate world of
enjoyment.
Continuing our support of Australian artists from last month, we
caught up with another local artist
with amazing skills, Kit10 Illustrations, who’s based in Adelaide and
we think has a tremendous future
ahead.
Welcome to Live, tell us a bit about
yourself:
I’m an 18-year-old artist who comes
from the country town of Whyalla,
SA. I moved to Adelaide early this
year and I’m currently studying an
Advanced Diploma of Professional
Game Development, with a specialisation in Game Art, at the Academy
of Interactive Entertainment.
How did you get into art?

I’ve loved creating art for as long
as I can remember; even as a child
I was always drawing and painting.
In the third grade of school, I had a
teacher named Matt Mallee, who
worked painting backdrops for the
local cinema, and was a freelance
artist in his own time. He taught
me so many different methods of
drawing and colouring, which really
helped develop my love and interest for art!
And what’s your favourite type of
art?
My favourite kind of art at the moment is digital art. I love drawing
people and characters - both fullbody and portraiture. My art style
fluctuates a lot, but I usually try to
stick to semi-realism.
Who inspires you?
I’m not sure who directly inspired
me to get into art. I’ve been doing it
for so long I can barely remember,
but I know Matt definitely played a
part. I’ve had a lot of different artistic influences and inspirations
throughout the years. When I was
younger, I used to enjoy creating
anime-styled pieces and fanart - I
remember looking up to artists like
Tite Kubo and Yana Toboso.
Now, I can easily say my single biggest influence is Wenqing Yan; oth-

erwise known under her pen name
Yuumei.
What’s
been
challenges?

your

biggest

So far, my biggest challenge has
been working with mediums I’m not
used to. I generally try to avoid the
areas I’m not good at rather than
trying to improve them, unfortunately! I tend to give up on pictures
that are proving to be out of my skill
level.
That being said, I struggled a lot
with a picture of Orta from the
game Panzer Dragoon: Orta. The
green of her dragon against the
peach-coloured background wasn’t
working out, and the perspective of
the image was too difficult for me to
work with. I only managed to get it
half-finished.
I also have a ridiculous amount of
struggle with drawing hands!
What tools do you use to create?
For my art, I’m using a Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch (Medium) tablet. The art program I use is called
FireAlpaca; which seems to be almost completely unheard of. It’s a
free to download program that can
be found online, and I love working
with it!