Kristy Anne Ligones. Illustrator and graphic designer.

Kristy Anne Ligones, aka KDLIG is a graphic designer and illustrator from Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Her personal works are inspired by Surrealism, Urban, Graffiti and Low-Brow art, mostly focused in digital, though from time to time, she still does traditional art like pen and ink, oil and acrylic painting. Her major breakthrough was when she won an international online shirt design competition at threadless that made a mark for her to establish a name in the world of Graphic and shirt designing in the online art community. Thank you to Kristy for answering my questions.

Q.Tell us a little bit about yourself. Do you have any formal training in graphic design?
A. I’m a Filipino Illustrator, also does graphic designing and a bit of photography. I learned how to draw when I was little, then later I joined summer art workshops during high school, where I learned how to apply other art medium, such as charcoal, chalk pastel, watercolor and oil painting. I took Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in advertising arts in college.

Q. Where do you get your inspirations from?
A. I get them anywhere, from books, movies, tv’s,comics, from people’s stories, from everyday random things, etc… I really don’t have one pattern for inspirations, I don’t just focus on one line, I like to go zig-zag to get to know the world more and place them on whatever medium of art I am using.

Q. Majority of your works featured human figures & expressions. Why?
A. Maybe because i like looking at different faces and expressions of people, and i love to draw human figures, and experiment on them, like adding some grotesque elements to make it more strange and interesting, it’s like revealing each person’s different characteristics, I believe that in each person, he or she have different characters within,and those characters for me are lil’ monsters that are mixed with good ones and bad ones, but doesn’t come out pretty often, it just depends on the situation we’re in. It’s also a way for me to be a scientist on my own and the canvas,paper or my laptop is my laboratory, where I’m free to do experiments on human figures, while my brushes, pencils, pens and pen tablet are my utensils.

Q. Do you have any specific approach when starting on a new project?
A. I don’t really have something specific, sometimes the idea comes out and I just begin to draw it, and immediately create and finish it a.s.a.p, because I’m the kind of artist that doesn’t want to put any works to waste, and wanted to see them all done. But there are times where I have the idea for a project, and yet I’m still currently doing something else as of the moment, so i just make rough sketches for it first,before I begin to make the actual sketch, then I will decide what medium I should use for that.

Q. Have you done any exhibition?
A. I have joined group art exhibits, the first exhibit I joined was back in high-school along with my fellow classmates at the summer art workshop. Most of the exhibits I was in were digital art ones, but this February 2010, a coming gallery exhibit in California, where I got invited to join, I will be showing 3 acrylic paintings along with fellow artists, mostly from the US and some from the other parts of the world.

Q. How do you describe your style?
A. I’m not really good at describing my own style, I love to hear it from other people, I think the viewers are the best on describing an artist’s style, even if they have different points of view, it is still very interesting hearing different perspectives on one style or artist.

Q. Do you think there are any particular style that differentiate Philippines designers from other artists from, let say, Malaysia?
A. I think before, maybe a long time ago, where cultures in each country are very much preserved, you can see the difference from both, but today, since aside from speaking in one language for communication, art is also beginning to have one direction from different artists of different nationalities. I have met amazing artists from Malaysia through Threadless and the art is not as different from any other nationalities, maybe each artist has a unique style but not unified in one style base on culture. I guess the world of art today is much more at peace and very much unified than the real world out there.

Q. What is your favorite gadget or piece of technology you can’t live without?
A. Pen, I can’t live without it, or anything that writes or draws, it seems like a day isn’t complete for me If I can’t draw something, I also can’t live without my laptop, it’s my portable canvas,no messy paints and very cheap.

Q. Tell us about your current project.
A. As of now, I’m waiting for my schedule to fly somewhere else and embark on a new journey as an artist in a foreign land. Though I also have made sketches for my next personal works, I will soon reveal them when I’m done, and also waiting for the exhibit this February, although I may not be there in flesh but I’m still excited for it, for more details on this exhibit in California, check this one here http://www.wwagallery.com/Upcoming.html

Q. Thank you. What is your future plans and your advice to inspiring designers out there?
A. You’re welcome and thank you for interviewing me also. Future plans? just keep on making works and make people smile with it, and for those inspiring designers and artists, keep on doing what you love to do, always practice, and have big patience for it, always believe in yourself, and accept criticisms, don’t be discourage, instead make it as your way to improve yourselves, have fun and have faith too.

Website : http://kdlig.com/

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