E M A I L
pocus@singnet.com.sg

A G E
22

S T A T U S
Full-time national service in the Singapore Armed Forces.

I N F L U E N C E

"I don’t know how it started. When I was a kid, I was fascinated by those cartoons of my times. Gatchaman (G-force), Macross and Transformers were my favorites. I remember the times I like drawing Transformers, I drew a lot of robots and stuff, those simple mecha stuff that a 6-year old kid will draw. Drawing became my favorite past time, my full-time hobby.

When I was older, I got influenced by Dragonball Z and started drawing them . I started to create my own characters and tried to map out storylines too. Those were the times when I was fascinated by the powers of the super humans in Dragonball Z, even my own characters have such powers.

When I was in secondary school (High School), I totally neglected drawing the when into other interests. I was more into PC games and other teenage stuff.

After I completed my 'o' levels and await for my enrolment to a Polytechnic, I start to draw again. I was really into manga style of drawing and tried many different styles of manga art. I was initially influenced by Ranma ½ way of manga style. I also created many characters and stories that were a lot more complex.

In my Polytechnic years. I met Bert, who introduced me to Image Comics and Gen 13. I begin to follow Gen 13's body anatomy style, only less exaggerated. Bert and I also create titles. Bert was more to dark gothic characters while I'm into the mainstream type, creating teams and superheros, minus those spectacular costumes.

I quickly became tired of superhero’s stuff. Those stereotype looking superheros just isn’t my style. I began to drift more to the alternative style. I also was partially influenced by Bert’s gothic style in comic drawing.

My manga style has change over the years. My character style don’t even resembles that of Ranma ½. I was trying to drift away from the conventional manga styled artwork to a style that you can’t find anywhere. I’ve also changed my character's outlook many times and so on.

In Singapore, all fit young men passed 18-years old are to serve the Army for 2½ years as a form of national service. Army was tough in the first few months, all the training and regimental discipline they try to drill into us almost killed me. After those “hell” months, life’s pretty okay. I now even have time to draw at night. 

Sad to say, the army is a boring place, all you do is drills, parades, out-field training, fatigues and so on. The Army has really sucked out all my creativity juices. I’m really looking forward to my service end date, which is end of this year (Dec 2000)."