Rex Lee and Wonderwall
For the Funan project, Rex joined forces with pop culture gallery BLAXK by ActionCity to customise a limited number of MIMILA, the cult rabbit-vinyl figurines by Devilrobots, a Japanese creative collective founded in 1997 by its art director Shinichiro Kitai . "I had been a fan of Shin San's work since my youth, and had a few of his toys in my personal collection, so it was really meaningful for me to have had the opportunity to meet him in person back then," recalls Rex.
I started drawing at a young age, and became a cartoonist in the early 90s, when I had the opportunity to illustrate for my own column in Lianhe Zaobao. I'm an optimist, and I always try to see the brighter side of life, so my drawings tend to be a bit on the happy side. It may sound cliche but there's always something to learn, from the humblest to the richest of experiences, from joy, and from misfortune.
I have Jake Parker to thank for Inktober because it got me back into a discipline with inking, which is a medium I've always loved. [embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/CMCl4ygHA6e/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=69236325-6ebe-4e65-a0e9-e797deba885c[/embed] Before colours were introduced in mass media, people experimented with creative ways of expressing text and pictures with just black ink alone, and even till today, it has an appeal that never quite goes out of style.
It compels me to make the best use of a single colour, to pay great attention to the tiniest detail, and to appreciate how every stroke of a pen affects the life of the entire picture or narrative.