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Advice from a Young Creator

PROFILE

Name: Toshio Kobayashi Birthplace: Gilu Prefecture, Japan Datę of Birth: 18 December 1973

After graduating from technical college, Kobayashi started working at a Games company where he is now working on Character Design for an original animation.

The most important thing when you are drawing is the feeling. How are you going to express what you are thinking? That is what counts. Your drawings openly express your likes and dislikes, your personality and emotions. You are not really aware of yourself when you go about your daily lite but drawing makes you take a look at yourselt.

I entered this profession because ever sińce I was a smali boy, I I had aspired to become an artist. It all began twenty years ago | one day when on television, I saw an old man painting on a Street corner in Europę. That's when it all started and why I am drawing now.

There are no shortcuts to improving your drawing skills.

The morę you persevere, the better your drawings will be. Have | a go at drawing everything around you, no matter what. Copy the drawings done by skilful artists. It's OK to do it just for the fun of it. Do it over and over again until the research you've done pays off and you have the materiał to draw what you like.Observe everything in your everyday lite. Watch everything | around you: people's expressions, their gestures, the way they talk, the way they move, the way they dress etc. Do the same with things. Observe the position of the light source and the shadows, colors, shapes, size, textures. Before you know it you will tind yourself watching everything without even thinking. Watch, think and draw. The morę, the better. Both quality and quantity are important but the most important of all is the feeling If all that you draw is void of feeling, it is easy to get into the doldrums. If you do end up feeling like this, you must start from nothing again and reconsider everything, all the work you have done over the years, the pictures you like, your sketches, rough drafts and rough illustrations.

Lastly, I want to say that I lack both the technique and knowledge to draw a tenth of what I imagine. But an amateur can become a Professional. And I am thinking morę like a Professional now than ever before.