Today’s interview is with Christopher Ang a.k.a Cierseruwal, a talented Digital Artist you may know from the Deviant Art Community. I first came across Christopher’s gallery on the Photoshop Creative website, and knew that I had to have him talk about his work.

Tell us a little about yourself and how you got started in digital art.

Hello! I’m Christopher, 21 years old and my hobby is making anime style artworks and playing multiplayer video games. I started learning digital arts when i was still 14 years old, my older brother taught me how to color my traditional line art drawings in photoshop and 4 years after, I bought my wacom graphic pen (which I am still using now) and digital arts became more and more interesting for me because I can draw instantly now with the use of my graphic pen.

Work of Christopher Ang- Camille2

A lot of your work is in the style of Japanese Anime or Manga, can you tell us more about what influences your style and creative process?

Well, when I was still a 9 year old kid I always watch sonic the hedgehog and played megaman series (I’m a big fan of megaman) and I always draw them when I’m in school and when i reach at the age of 12 anime series where quite famous and I liked the way they draw the eyes, so I started drawing anime style since then.

Work of Christopher Ang- KirstieJ

What has been your biggest challenge as a creative so far?

My biggest challenge was to draw and paint like Jacek Yerka’s style which was a big contest on a CG website.

Work of Christopher Ang- Camille Christmas Season

Who are some of your favorite artist and what would you say you admire about their work?

Well I only know 2 artist that I really admire and its NEVILLE PAGE and my OLDER BROTHER PETER.
I never met Neville Page but I really appreciate his video tutorials which i can find very useful, his techniques are awesome as well as his artworks.and of course my older brother, I wouldn’t know or even be interested in drawing if I didn’t see him drew when I was still a little kid. I admire his imagination, I’m not the type of artist who is very creative, my brother is.

Work of Christopher Ang- Speechless

Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?

I see myself working for my future, I am not sure where, but I’m sure it will be a 3D graphics company for right now I’m learning a little bit about architectural 3D arts and maybe I will learn on how to create organic models in the future too for gaming industries.

Work of Christopher Ang- Anna Lee Festival Night

What advice would you give other aspiring digital artist today?

I’m still an aspiring artist too! ^_^
Anyway for us aspiring artist there is a saying that “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at changes” If you are an artist who got frustrated because you see no improvement and feel overwhelmed by other great artist, then you must changed the way look at it.  Admire your works! appreciate them, don’t compare to other great artist (you’ll just get frustrated)
even if you have different styles in making arts, it’s not a reason to get frustrated for my motto in life is “EVERYONE IS UNIQUE, A REASON TO BE PROUD OF”

Work of Christopher Ang- Alice

Thanks for the interview Chris, I’m sure everyone reading this looks forward to seeing more of your work, and we’ll be on the look out for you rising star once you break into the Gaming Industry, with your level of talent at this stage you are sure to go far if you stick to it. To all of the readers out there please comment with your thoughts and be sure to visit Christopher Ang’s galleries on Advanced Photoshop, Photoshop Creative, and of course Deviant Art.

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