Skitsch Started a Sketch Blog!

Check out this great drawing by Skitsch:Skitsch drew this specifically to share with you on her new sketch blog.

Who is Skitsch you ask? You can learn a little about her by reading this Korea & Animation interview where she discusses her life as an inbetweener in the Korean animation industry. Or you can learn even more about her by checking out the drawn self introduction she posted over at her own blog.

Skitsch is digging up old drawings as well as creating new ones to share with the world. Sometimes she even shows her drawing process with us. Who knows what the future of her blog may hold? I say we all encourage her by leaving lots of comments!

Visit her now at: http://skitschbook.blogspot.com

Quick Skitsch Sketch

From the hand of Skitsch. . .comes a sketch. . .

of a fish with underarm hair! Or should it be called underfin hair?

Skitsch is trying to hide behind her sketchbook, but you can easily see her face in a past interview with her about her inbetweening work.

Her Name is Skitsch

An interesting interview below! Keep reading. . .
Skitsch is her name. During the day she works as a professional inbetweener for Imagin, a Japanese animation studio in Korea. But outside of work she is an artist on the loose who is busy creating her own stuff. Here are some characters she's designed and put on some stickers. Along with many other young artists, she puts stuff like this on T-shirts and other goods that she sells at the Hongdae artist's market during warm seasons. She also has a blog/shop, D-Gecko, where you can see more of her stuff. And now, for the interview:

Midodok: So, what do you feel about your job and animation in Korea?

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Skitsch: I might disappoint you. I don't like my job. Sometimes I even feel shame. Yes, we draw, but we don't draw for our story and people here. Especially those who have worked as an animator for a long time, they think they've done something great, but most of them just have SKILLS. Not a story, not a style, nothing. They're just workers.

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One of my old co-worker was suffering. He was a talented storyteller and he had skills but he couldn't do what he really wanted because nobody was interested (I mean nobody invested). Animation in Korea? I don't know, right now, I can't see any future.

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Midodok: Why do you think Korean animation has little hope?

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Skitsch: We became a hand, not a head. Look at me, I've been working as an animator for 7 years but I just know a small part of animation. We're doing this to make money, we're following rules they (in my case, Japanese) made, not ours...

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Skitsch: I have a dream with my drawing, but I don't have a dream as an animator.

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Midodok: How so?

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Skitsch: Hmm. . . Someday, I wanna have my own street brand.

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Midodok: I see! Cool! Why a street brand and not animation?

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Skitsch: I don't know. . . Maybe I realized I can't make an animation all by myself.

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Midodok: Anything else you'd like to add?

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Skitsch: Nah.

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Midodok: Thank you for taking the time for this interview!

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Skitsch: Okay, no, you're welcome.

I hope that creativity and uniqueness like Skitsch's can be encouraged and she can find a place to use it. It would be a shame if artists like Skitsch do indeed just "become a hand" and can't put their talent to use. By the way, I thought I'd share her unique wrist piercing. If you look closely, you can sort of see it. As always, you can leave comments for Skitsch and I'll make sure she sees them.