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Q: What got you interested in calligraphy?

A: I had a friend in my class during Jr2 who was extremely talented combinations, especially wacky
at art. She always brought her art supplies like alcohol markers and ones that don’t seem like they

sometimes her palette to school, but most importantly: her black work!

brush pen. She let me try it out and my first attempt at calligraphy Q: Do you have a style of

was horrendous to say the least, but she lent me her pen anyway and calligraphy?
taught me how to write better.

A: I don’t really think it stands
One thing that kept my passion for calligraphy from dwindling out, but it tends to be more
however, was actually my interest in K-Pop. I would come across curvy and also really uneven.
pictures of journals made by K-Pop fans on Instagram, and they I’ve been writing calligraphy,

inspired me to keep trying different things with calligraphy (like brush pen calligraphy to be

mixing colours, adding drop shadows and all that stuff ). specific, for about three to four

years, and I joined the Western
Chelsea Chua’s piece Calligraphy Club last year.

Normally we’re taught to write
Q: What aspect of calligraphy is your favourite? calligraphy so that the words

are parallel to each other at first
A: Probably the fact that: one, you can mix colours to create because it’s easier, but once

a gradient effect; and two, you can add little decorations on top of you get the gist of it you can

the words like sparkles and highlights. I used to take “书法” (Chinese just experiment on your own. I
calligraphy) classes when I was in primary school, but I jumped ship
when I realised that Western calligraphy gave us more freedom for

creativity.

The most fun part about calligraphy, on the other hand, would

probably be the experimenting part. I like testing different colour

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