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Interview with PemaMendez:
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Thank you for participating!
Tell us a bit about yourself!
well, My name is Pema Mendez, I'm from Latin America's hell-hole, I'm an artist on the grind mostly self taught. I'm currently studying graphic design and plan to master on illustration (if that's possible, is it?). I want to create the most awesome hard boiled crime novel of the first half of this century! and be remembered as that sick dude from Latin America that wrote about Yakuza and ninjas (kinda like Kinji Fukasaku)
How did you find deviantART?
before joining I always needed references and resources for drawing or for high school papers and stuff, I noticed many of the images I searched came from this site, it took me around a year to finally close the Google images bar and give deviantART a surf. after a while I decided to join to show the world my doodles
What inspired your username?
that's how everyone knows/refers to me in fact
since I was elementary my friends call me Pemanuel (since my name is
Emanuel), then eventually evolved to just Pema, I've been using this
alias for so long even from high school and college call me like that.
my second name (family name) is Mendez, ergo, PemaMendez (I'm so creative ) you can actually find out everything I do in the internets since 2008 by googling that
What did you love about the site/what stood out?
mainly the opportunity to get to show my work to people outside of my social group, I was kind of a badass in school so even if my drawings were fugly my friends would say they were good and I don't show anything to my family because they praise me like I'm a god, I wanted critic, and feedback from serious people that could appreciate that could appreciate art and not only "less clothes bigger boobs" of something like that.
What do you aim to do in the deviantart community?
I wish to gain recognition as an artist, get deviants from around the world to say "hey, it's another image by that dude PemaMendez, his work is awesome" just like I curently say from other already-famous-deviants
What inspires your work?
well, I work mostly on illustrations for my storybook and characters, and what inspires them is mostly movies I see from time to time, videogames, and music. for example, my main character at the moment, Miko (a yakuza assassin) was inspired by the "Battles without honor of humanity" movies and Hitman videogame series and so on.
What is your main genre(s)?
I guess... Illustration
What is unique about the medium(s)s?
I like that it portraits a character doing on frames that are written on my storybook or somewhere else, I can illustrate my character dumping a body into a dumpster or picking up a bullet shell from the floor, might look like "just a drawing" but I actually did it because there are whole page(s) written to it, and the illustration kinda gives a guide for the reader to imagine the rest of the scene and put all kinds of spices and curry to it.
What kinds of things are reflected in your style?
like to combine beautiful visuals (fantasy like) with good aesthetics (beautiful people, outfits, colors and stuff) and mix it with lots and lots of violence and blood... sounds tasty, doesn't it?
Any difficulties regarding your art?
rrently, the main problem I have is finding the right frame. illustration it's not like comic or manga, in comics you have lots of frames with different scenes and points of view, in illustration I need to find the right frame, the right angle, and the right scene, since there is a whole story written for it it's very difficult (for me, at least) to find this frame that will illustrate the story perfectly, sometimes I spend days playing around on my sketchbook or on 3D software looking for this scene while reviewing the text again and again, I end up with my brain blown up and no illustration at all.
What is your future as an artist?
I guess I'll make a living out of it (?) since.... I'm studying for an art related degree in college and I have so many projects in mind I would love to produce massively and maybe sell if that doesn't work out, then I'll just become an Altair, that could work too,"the art of killing".
Anything more you'd like to add?
I would reaaaally love a cup of coffee right now ... and a unicorn, or an albino rhino, A UNICORN ALBINO RHINO! wait... : O_o:
Thank you!
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