Lyya & Lydy

I'm very glad and really honoured that your team sees my artwork as similar to Superflat. That is so awesome. I admire Yoshitomo Nara and Takashi Murakami. Their art is super cool. However, you asked me whether or not I was direct influenced by them, and the answer is some (around 30%). I suppose many people think my work is similar to Japanese Superflat style because I grew up with Japanese anime and manga such as Doraemon, Dr. Slump Norimaki Arare, Anpanman etc. So, I absorb that some art culture, feeling and style.

I think for me the artists who have influenced my work and are my inspiration are Hayao Miyazaki, Tim Burton and John Burgerman. Their work has pushed me to draw more and more, and to improve myself as I work on my own style.

It begins with: I want to show my little artwork and have people and artists give comments, so I can improve my work.
Mojizu is an online community. For me, it is a good showroom where I can show my work to the world.

My work process is: I look for my inspiration by watching the Discovery Channel, by listening to songs, by watching movies or by looking around everywhere and taking photographs. For example, one day I was watching Monkey Story on Discovery. Then, I picked up my pencil and sketched monkeys from my imagination. My "Monkie Sticks" were in that sketch too.

Later, I was very proud that Monkie Sticks became my first champ in Mojizu.

It's easy for me to find ideas and sketch characters. The difficult part is how to bring the sketch to strike people eyes. It takes me a lot of work and time to develop each character to be a perfect although it seems like fun to draw a cartoon.

1 year and 4 months ago, I opened my Studioaiko. The difficult part is I have to design, develop, and maintain my website all the time.

www.studioaiko.com is the real me, I put all my heart and soul into all the work in that website. I worked very hard from the beginning to now. I manage every detail by myself. I enjoy adding my new artwork onto the site and am very excited to see visitors check in from everywhere around the world. I want people to see my work, give me feedback/comments, and come back to my website again and again.

For the difficult thing....I believe nothing is difficult if I try hard to do it.

I think the best part of Studioaiko is that it inspires visitors to the website. I'm happy that my work is powerful enough to give them inspiration. I'm happy that my work can catch their eyes. The most important thing is that I can open my graphic world to join with other graphic worlds.

AF4: Papang & Friends

I don't want to specify my style for now because I'm not sure what my style should be. I want to learn more and find something to approve or experiment on my works. Just feel fun to draw in many styles. But, maybe now I say specifically that my character designs are " Haunt-Cute with shiny eyes."

I like to listen to heavy music (metal rock, pop-rock). Music stimulates my mind and allows me to enjoy myself when I am drawing. However, I prefer to be in a quiet room if I have to think about some serious projects.

About my Favorite drinks, I like Coca-cola, Lemon Ice Tea. Bacardi, Smirnoff Vodka cocktail will add more fun when I chill out with friends.

I don't like Snacks, it makes me fat. I think Coca-cola already give me a lot of weight.

Kidding me!! Oh... difficult choice...... If I could take one famous artist, I would take Hayao Miyazaki on a 9-temple tour around Bangkok plus visit a famous water market. I hope Thailand will inspire him for his next animation movie. And bring me to work with him.

I love them all, they are my babies. But if I really have to select, it would be Monkie Sticks because Monkie Sticks are my first character from my Studioaiko. They were born on Valentine's Day. They are my first winner in Mojizu that made a lot of people know about my Studioaiko.

New and upcoming from Studioaiko is a game design that I'm currently still working on. In the future, I will open a small workshop to teach young graphic designers who are interested in character design (especially strange and unique character). I hope we can have a grateful time to exchange ideas together. About exhibition, I think it's very difficult to me. There is no one inviting me to join and I can't open an exhibition by myself. (Character design is not famous like painting or fashion design.) But I hope, one day, I can have my own character design exhibition.