Kim Jung Gi Sketchbook Torrent
Magali Swinderman
Both sketchbooks are loaded with content. The bulk are character sketches and some comic panels. Some just line art, some painted. There are a few graphic sex scenes, and I'm not talking about the nude figure drawings which are also there.
Even on a page filled with close-up character sketches, I find it hard to spot any similar faces. This guy draws a different face for all his characters. Many of the sketches are really detailed. The form (silhouette) is fantastic.
If you're finding it difficult to keep a sketchbook on your own, buy this book and put it on your table for some inspiration and motivation. You don't even have to read it to feel the energy seeping through the pages.
I ordered both of these thanks to the posts on this site a while ago. Both are awesome and just filled to the brim with good stuff. Tho the 2007 one has more content, the smaller size makes it harder to peruse. Both are awesome though.
I just recieved my book today as well and amazing is an under statement. I was so excited to be flipping thru the 2011 sketchbook that I stopped somewhere in the middle so I could save some excitement for tomorrow. Really is an amazing book and worth every penny. While sure its a little expensive but really I look at it like thats the shipping thats expensive the book itself is a great deal.
If your thinking about getting this book beleive me its well worth the money and the concepts and ideas are just filled with imagination. I started sketching myself after just shortly flipping thru some of it. Truly inspiring and David was easy to talk to and contacted me back almost immediately. We exchanged a few emails, I payed him thru pay pal and next day he gives me some info that my book would ship shortly. I contacted him a few days later and he updated me with the EMS tracking number and here I am. Now I almost wish I would have bought both books at once to save. Really great buy.
whether you wanna buy the 2007 or the 2011 book, you wont even regret it, i personally recommends you guys to buy both books.
and special credit goes to David, he undervalued the books in the package, so that i won't have to paid a ridiculous amount of taxes and custom fees.
I take the liberty of wrting here (Parka, please delete my comment if you find it innapropriate) to let you know that Kim Jung Gi's books are now imported in Europe (by myself ^^).
If you need info about price and expedition, do not hesitate to send me an email at j...@optima-video.com
It was 183 dollars for both the books and EMS tracked shipping to Belgium (Europe). David was very helpful and the quality of the books themselves is amazing. I'm a student but even with that price it feels like a bargain for what I just got.
I must underline how helpful David has been, my country (Serbia) has all kind of problems regarding payments/shipping from and to the rest of the world and David worked with me patiently to find a way to do it. My mailbox says it took 35 emails to close the deal and all my emails were answered within a few hours. Shipping was done by Korean EMS/TNT.
I really wouldn't know what to say about the books without giving them far less credit than they deserve. So I'm just gonna do what I've been doing for the last several days - sit down and enjoy them!
I say your better off contacting david. I didnt know they would be that much cheaper from him than Basheer. Both books and shipping from Basheer cost me 200+ cause of shipping. If i known i would of gotten them from David and Kim :(
I had sent the email to david to asking for the price for both book from Korea to Malaysia will be how much? but until now already more than 24 hours still dun have response from him..anyone can help here. Thanks
Hi Parka, I just ordered mine , both the 2007-2011 collection. My question is, did the book always come up with the cardboard packaging? I went to Basheer and collected my ordered books. But it didn't come up with the cardboard packaging.. just only the loose book. Are the new printed edition come up with the book only? Thank You so much :)
Before going, I already made different agreements to meet up with artists that I liked and that I have been a fan of for a long time. The french comic book scene is fantastic and sparks very personal artists. But even if I planned for a lot of the things, you can still have a big surprise. I was walking along the line of small publishers with very narrow publications, when suddenly there was a big crowd blocking my view. I squeezed in and saw this little Korean guy doing drawings in a thick book. The drawing was upside down so i did not recognize the style immediately, but when the guys next to me moved I read the sign: Kim Jung Gi.
The guy I had seen on the internet and had dismissed as being something between a fraud and a guy with autism. I almost felt sorry for the guy: When I saw the movie clips I was convinced that something was wrong with him in the head. Surely, no one could do what he does without something being totally wrong. In telling my self this, I once again established order in my universe, because undoubtly Kim Jung Gi was able to do somthing extraordinary.
I was standing in the crowd watching him draw for an hour or so searching for that strange giveaway that he was mentally ill or that somthing that would explain the unexplainable, but nothing happened! He was smiling and laughing, speaking charmingly with his translator and publisher and all the while sketching marvelous drawings for people, with a brush pen in the first page of his sketchbook . I got ice cold. There was nothing wrong with him. My universe crashed again. It looked like he had broken a secret code to drawing, a code that I didnt even know existed. I decided I had to get to the bottom of this, so I miraculously got an apointment to do an interview with Kim Jung Gi the next day. We met at a bar and through a translater I was able to ask him some questions, and discovered just how incredible an artsit he is, a Super Artist! Like nothing I have ever seen.
KMG:
The difference between me and most other artist is that other artist try to draw things from looking at reference and copying what they see. I try to look at live objects and study them in front of me. I draw from real life. By doing that I become more capable of remembering them afterwards.
Ever since I was little, when I watched movies I would go back in my mind and draw what I remembered and what I liked from the movie, as an interpretation of the movie or a comment, if you like.
I have a very good memory.
KMG:
Yes, I use memories as reference.
The thing about not using a sketch before drawing has another explanation. I run a private school as a pre-academy for those who want to go to art academy. As a teacher I have to show the students how to draw, but the sketching and colouring took too long, so I tried skipping that stage to be more flexible, and it worked.
KMG:
It is not training to me, it is relaxing and just something that I do; all the time. And it has been that way since I was little. I draw things that interest me for the moment. I add things that spark my interest and just fill the paper. I do it for the process rather than the actual drawing.
(To explain to me, he drags out a sketchbook, the one he is currently using, and lets me skip through it while pointing out specific drawings. I stop at a sketch by an other artist, one of my favourites: Terada Katsuya, It is a drawing of the Monkey King, and next to it is one of Kim Jung GIs drawing also of a monkey king, but way different. )
I did this Moneky King as an inspired drawing from Teradas. it is a way of interpret what I see and what is around me. After being at the sea side of Southern France I drew a drawing of the beach scene, but instead of copying what was directly in front of me I drew the memory of it.
If I become interested in things I draw them as an interpretation.
KMG:
What I struggle with is, that I do not want to be the artist who is behind the trend. I do not like to be the one who gets stuck somewhere. So I always try to be around and involved with other artists, to see what they are doing.
JE:
When you are doing a drawing, do you see the drawing before hand? Do you know what you want to do or do you let the drawing take you where it wants to go?
Do you see the complete drawing in you mind before you start or spontaneously go where it leads you?
KMG:
It depends; there are moments where it is spontaneous. For the drawing show here in Angoulme, I thought: Europeans are very much into cars so I thought I would do a bunch of cars being pulled apart by animals. The audience would like that.
KM:
But for the moment I use Facebook a lot. There are so many artists there, and what I concentrate on is stuff that I like. I collect everything; paintings, sculptures, music and fashion. As an example, I looked a lot at the latest Prada line to see if there was something I could use for my work. I do not focus on specific style. More the experience. I collect everything even if it looks pointless.
JE:
I am honored. You have given me a whole new look on what it is to be an artist, and I think I need to change pace now and start sketching some more. (We both laugh, me a little forced, since I know that it is 25 years too late to start to become Ejsing Jung Gi.)
Thanks Jesper! All the questions I always wanted to ask him! The meeting must have been really exciting, thanks for sharing it here!
Such a mind-blowing memory he got! And seems really responsive.
Hope I could meet him too one day.
so he doesnt study anatomy by copying? he just observes and then he draws from imagination?
and he copies from life but never from photos, is that so? im a bit confused by his way of studying, would love to know more of his process to retain and burn new infromation
KunGi es como una computadora y su mano la impresora, jamas he visto nadie como el, las casas de gomas de borrar se iran a la quiebra con el, jeje, es un tipo nico, hay un video de una exposicion en Navidad en Corea, en el que su hija hace unos dibujos en una plataforma de 12 TV, con la paleta, cada persona utiliza una pantalla, al fginal el coje la tablex y llena las doce pantallas con un cristma Genial
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