A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Illustration by Feling Poh
After a few emails from some lovely ladies asking I thought I would put up a little post about me
Age: 21 City: Brisbane, Aus
Childhood
Spent most of my early childhood trying get in with my two older
brothers Flynn & Morgan by playing toy cars, unsuccessfully trying to ride
a bmx bike (which ended in my mouth being full of rocks) and other activities
which nearly always left me hurt. My parent’s were divorced when I was five
which meant I grew up with my mother who is probably the most amazing human I
know.
How
I got into blogging
I got into blogging around this time last
year after a few people via social media has been asking if I had one. I really
just wanted to do something & anything to get creating and to be honest I
did think no one would really read it and it could be something different for
Michael & I. I already loved clothing & Michael already loved
photography so it was sort of decided then that we would just start and see
what happened. What was the worst that could happen?
How
I got into typography
I got into typography a few university
holidays ago when I was pretty sick of designing everything on the computer and
struggling to find a nice brush font that I liked. Being someone who hates
doing nothing I decided to try learn the skill of hand lettering. From there I
started writing a lot of calligraphy that I love but brush is where my heart is.
I love the stroke of a brush, even though you can mess it all up within 0.1
second. From there I have been
practicing most days since and developing my own identifiable style.
Tools
Indian Ink, Various Brushes, Water, and
copious amounts of paper.
My
first memory of typography
Grade 5, I was known in primary school as
the bubble writing queen and if you were born early 90s you know what a big
deal that is. I also used to write little books of different handwriting
because classmates always wanted to copy. I was also the first in my class to
get a pen license?
What
is around me right now
Biggest
challenge
I would say my biggest challenge is myself,
I am someone who takes things to heart and can be very hard on myself which is
never fun. But more so currently, I have
been faced with a few challenges with people taking and using my work without
permission. It is something I find hard to deal with as I don’t want to be
chucking huge watermarks over my work and I don’t want to have to stop sharing
my work through social media.
Fun Facts
My biggest fear is anything to do with
lizards, I’m sorry if I am following someone who puts up a photo of a lizard I
have to unfollow them at the risk of throwing my phone out of fear. I am just
terrified by the sight of them. Especially the ones that live near rivers and
lakes. Geckos are okay.
As of 2012 I can’t eat Corn Chips, Corn,
Twisties or Cheetos without my stomach going into a world of pain. I can’t work
out why because I still eat popcorn without any trouble.
Michael is actually my oldest brother’s
friend and I met him when I was in Primary School.
I have pretty gory nightmares.
I also love to watch scary and true-life
crime shows, even though I have taken a break to ware off the dreams.
I can’t eat dinner while watching a movie.
The first level of my house went under in the
2011 floods so I lived with my brother Morgan for 8 months in an apartment.
I stress-shower not stress-eat.
I have two middle names
And thats a little bit about me
jasmine x
You can see more of Feling's illustrations here