ARTIST SPOTLIGHT – Monekers

This week we welcome Monekers to the CBFC Artist Spotlight!

Q. Where are you from?

A. I am from Malaga, a city in southern Spain.

Q. How long you’ve been drawing?

A. I have been drawing since I was a child, but I have been professionally dedicated to it for about 10 years, mainly designing for t-shirts.

Q. What materials do prefer to do your art with?

A. For my work I usually use digital media, graphic tablets and software such as photoshop or illustrator, although I admit that I prefer traditional drawing, pencils and paper.

Q. Character do you love to draw?

A. Mainly I like to draw things that I like from popular culture, characters from comics and science fiction movies are my favorites.

Q. Character that you want to draw that you haven’t drawn yet?

A. Moon Knight, I did not know this character very well and I must admit that as a result of the new tv show I have become very interested in the character. I love the ancient Egypt theme.

Q. What artist inspires you the most and why?

A. I have always really liked Japanese art and my designs are clearly inspired by pictorial styles such as sumi-e or ukiyo-e. Qi Baishi, Wu Zhen, Katsushika Hokusai, Hiroshi Yoshida… are some examples.
I also really like impressionism.

Q. What was your first published work?

A. My first published design was a sumi-e style illustration of Darth Vader, “Star Warrior sumi-e”. It was published in 2013.

Q. Which artist would you love to do a collaboration piece with?

A. I’m not a big fan of doing collaborations, although I’ve done some in the past con Ddjvigo o Saqman. 

Thank Monekers for taking the time to answer a few of our questions! Be sure to give him a follow!

Don’t forget to check back next week for our next Artist Spotlight! If you’re an artist and are looking to be featured on our page please hit me up here. I’d love to hear from you.

-Chris