Hong Kong iPad artist Rob Sketcherman sends his festive greetings
If you walk down Hollywood Road towards SOHO’s direction, it is not hard to notice the eye-catching mural that features iconic Hollywood figures like Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin and Audrey Hepburn. The 11-metre-tall mural outside the Madera Hollywood hotel soon became a colourful focal point in downtown Central Hong Kong. And little does one know, this huge mural was actually created with just an iPad and a stylus by Rob Sketcherman, one of Hong Kong’s first iPad urban sketch pioneers.
Having been commissioned by Moleskine to chronicle the entire 39th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Rob has worked on portrait drawing projects with BMW, global workshops with Apple, and some projects that change Hong Kong's cityscape. The Hong Kong-born artist is also a frequenter of Hong Kong Classic Car Show and is enthusiastic about drawing vintage cars despite sketching street scenes being his specialty. We sat down for a chat with Rob to talk about digital art and asked him to send his festive greetings to our audience: