Interview: Rafi Adrian Zulkarnain

Good day! How are things going?

Hello, it's still shiny and bright summer now here.

How did you get your start in design?

When I found that watercolor, crayons, marker and pencil could make my playful funtime in my childhood, then I was very interested with a catchy visual materials stuff, example like movies either from Asian and Western. Since then an inspiration, experience and experiment was become a part of my starting point for creating artworks till now.

What inspires your work?

Anything God's creation, world artists, cultures, colors, fantasy, sci-fi and real life was my main part of inspiration.

What types of projects do you most like working on?

It which can give me full chance for experiment some interesting new perspective. I like creative project which can have balance between artists ideas and the client preference guidance.

How would you describe your style?

It's kind of flow or moving moments, attractive, action and bright colors. And also variations of abstract, expressive loose brush and realistic. I like both traditional or digital way of making artworks.

What's in the future for you?

Have more good projects and can share my humble inspiration.

What is the inspiration of the image above?

The Pandora idea came from the philosophy of the battle between good will and evil will. I change the mood and idea with my point of view from commonly pandora myth to relations about the live path choices by fill the symbols of good or evil reflections, shine and dark, light and shadow also adding some new elements of sci-fi and retro. My conclusion here was pandora choose the better condition of life and goodness.

Are you interested in working on graphic novels?

Right now I'm much more prefer the book cover or little series illustration project rather than graphic novels.

Thanks for chatting with us!

For more of Rafi's work check out her Carbonmade portfolio: http://raz.carbonmade.com/