- About Asyera Sidauruk
I’m a 5’4 tall... and I love the color green! My name is Asyera Sidauruk, but I prefer to be called Abby. I’m an illustrator and an interior-architect. I grew up in Indonesia – Bandung and I end up living in Boston.
My background is Architecture (funny isn’t?!) but surprisingly, it leads me to crafting and designing life instead of some rigid - stiffed columns and beams life. Right now, besides busy working as a crafter for “My Life is A Parody” Pin Project, a mural artist, a tutor, and an illustrator, I’m also pursuing my masters degree in interior design at Suffolk University. My day is always full of creativities! That makes me feel alive plus end up being an insomniac. But still FUN!
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- How did you first get into illustration?
First day I moved to Boston, I had no job, had no friends, and was very skinny. I tried to survive from this new environment which was very “alien” for me! That was the time when I fell in love with illustration. Gladly, I grew up among artists (my mom and my brother are artists), so I was born with this skills and the only thing I have known for very long time is... drawing! So then, I started drawing and led me to illustration. Since then illustration saves my life. I love illustration like people love to eat!
- How would you best describe your style of illustration?
My style is conceptual-cartoony-humorist-semi surrealism style.
- Please take us through your design process, where do you start?
Scratch – Sketch – Modify – Finish up! I do the scratch in my head most of the times before I go to bed. And then in the morning, I grab my sketchbook and try to remember every single scratch I had last night and BOOM! I just create something. The long gap between scratching process and sketching process is very important, to give me some sort of “break” to develop the initial idea, so the sketch that I will produce won’t be so stiff and absolute.
- What tools do you use for your work?
Traditional work: Pen, acrylic paint, watercolour, pencil, colour pencils, and clays Digital work: sketchbook pro (software), Adobe Photoshop, plus Corel Draw.
- When illustrating, do you sometimes get blocked for ideas? If so, how do you overcome that?
Yes! It happens a lot especially when you are working under someone else’s rules. To overcome it, I just draw what I like. Give a little bit of time to do what you like, and then go back to whatever you have started. Sounds funny isn’t? You draw for work, and you do the same thing to relax.
- What would be your ultimate goal as an illustrator?
My goal is to inspire people! To give them the sense of “If she can do it, I can do it too”! and to help them get out from their boring and structured lives
- What style music do you mostly listen to when you work?
Pandora style! Onrepublic radio, mike posner radio, or the script radio. Just those and I shuffle them every day.
- Do you have any advice for aspiring illustrators?
Keep doing what you have done. BE POSITIVE! And one more thing that's so important is...Sometimes, we compare our works with other illustrators, and really put yourselves down. Comparing work is to motivate not to give you reasons to give up!
- What web sites would you recommend viewing?
http://www.guempelart.com
http://danidani.carbonmade.com/
http://britsketch.blogspot.com/
http://www.emmanuellewalker.blogspot.com/
http://www.designworklife.com/
http://www.gabrielmoreno.com/
http://www.50watts.com/
