Featured Artist: Jun087
Artist Jun Leong aka Jun087 hails from “the city surrounded by mountains”- Ipoh, Malaysia. From an early age Jun knew he wanted to make a career in the world of art. “When I was a kid, I liked to ‘read’ comic books especially comic books from Hong Kong and Japan- not really reading the contents or the story but learning the art and the drawing techniques. At the age of 10, I told myself that I wanted to be an artist.”
Blending mysticism from the East with artistic techniques of the West, Jun is always experimenting with new artist techniques and finds a range of inspiration from books and movies, to music and nature to manga and animation. When starting a new design Jun will first designate a single object like a tree. “Then I will start to search for the images of tree from the internet, books and parks. Then I develop by adding ideas and some elements or objects in order to make it more unique, interesting and trendy. All the ideas I keep in mind until I sketch the design on paper and finally convert to a digital art in the computer.”
Jun cites Hayao Miyazaki as the artist he most admires. “I really like his creativity and imagination. His combination of humanity’s relationship with nature and technology have influenced me a lot.”