Murugiah

So I stuck to that.

But I always want to get back to handmade stuff.

Eventually, I'll want to do lino printing at some point to further sit next to that kid in the art room and be, hey, now we're making lino together.

So I've always wanted to do it.

And after 2019 to 2024, I'd built enough of a client base in digital work that I thought, maybe let's try some analog stuff.

But during that time of 2019 to 2024, I always chose projects that had a tactile part of the work.

Either be it a book cover, which you could end with a physical copy of a book, or a movie poster, which had a limited run of screen prints that you could make at the end of this process, where you could decipher...

paper choices, hollow foil screen printing techniques.

I was always focused on a tactile thing at the end of each project.

To the chagrin of my other fellow movie poster designers who would take on digital marketing jobs where they'd get to design a poster for their favorite film or TV show, but it would just be this social media thumbnail to advertise this.

And I was like, what are you doing?

Hey, credit to you, you're making money from it, and that's good, you're earning a living.

But I just felt so sad that this piece of art that someone had made for this film or TV show never saw the light of day in somebody's hands.

So when it came to 2023-24, I kept on making things by hand for myself, personal paintings.

That's when I moved to the acrylic painting technique.

And it just came naturally.

It was very easy to transition a digital drawing to a piece of paper.

And then the tactile part of the process is the painting.

It's the viscosity of layering of paint.

Do you keep this solid color that you're applying very solid?