We were watching a true genius of his craft at work. Be careful not to smudge the ink with your hand.” Christy Radecic, Invision via Associated Press. He said something to the effect of “All you need to do is imagine what you are going to draw and use your pen to draw it. “Do you have a photographic memory?” “Do you have a visual plan of the final drawing in your head as you draw this?” Kim’s answers were hilariously matter-of-fact and maddening to everyone desperate to crack the code and draw like he could. He opened the room up for questions and inevitably people asked about just how he was able to do this. Everyone in the room stared in stunned silence. He was so down-to-earth, with no pretentiousness- just a normal dude drawing the most remarkable thing I’d ever seen in my life. He was skipping over all of it and starting with the blank page to create the final drawing in one step.Īs he drew, he just casually talked about his life, his family. It’s hard to put into words how magical it was to see someone create work like this, seeming to break all the rules I had learned in drawing class (roughly sketch in composition, gradually fill in details, adding inks, shading, etc).

I lined up early and sat in the front row as I watch him effortlessly draw the most complex, dynamic, creative images without the an underlying pencil sketch, or really any hesitation as his brush pen just magically created a final version of the drawing in a single pass on a pristine white paper. In 2011, Gi attended the Comic Festival in Bucheon but unlike other artists. or Korean comic book, Young Jump, and led him to teach at colleges and universities. Videos of him drawing these beautiful ink drawings free hand seemed unreal. ARTIST and illustrator Kim Jung Gi died on October 3, 2022, at only 47 years old.Gi was known for his art in Marvel Comics and for creating the manhwa.

When I were San Diego Comic Con a few years ago I was the most excited about seeing the master artist Kim Jung Gi in real life.

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