Artist Spotlight: Interview With K.A. Kim

I’m very partial to La La Land, Titanic, as well as the Terminator. Very classic Hollywood movies to me, and I love them very much.

My favorite pieces are some of the quarter-scale figures that I have had the pleasure of sculpting, mainly Blitzway’s Marilyn Monroe, as well as Hot Toy’s Quarter Scale Christian Bale Batman. I’m the proudest of those and how they ended up coming out.

I would say about a month and a half to two months. The longer I spend on them, the better they come out as with anything else.

I’d love to work on a Terminator again, I think Arnold Schwarzenegger has a very interesting facial structure that lends itself to scale representation. That said, I’d also love to work on a Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man sculpt, as well as a Heath Ledger Joker. Both characters have been covered by other artists many times, but I’d like to give them a shot and see what I come up with.

I’ve always been very partial to Blitzway’s Bruce Lee and Godfather quarter scale figures, I think they came out wonderfully.

I really love travel. It’s what I enjoy doing anyway when I am not sculpting, so I think it would have been nice to be something like a travel photographer. But that being said, creating something has been so core to me since I was young, it is hard for me to picture myself not sculpting or painting. I’d probably wish I was sculpting while I was doing all of that travel.

I would love to see more women begin to collect scale collectibles. Same goes for women creating scale collectibles. Regardless of gender everyone who loves this hobby is a collector. Men or Women.

First and foremost, you have to do something that you love. That has always been the most important thing to me, and I firmly believe that if you love something it is easier to get very good at it. Next, you must not try to impress anyone but yourself. Push yourself, but go at your own pace and style, don’t allow others to influence your upbringing with negativity. Of course, while doing this you need to be trying your absolute best – give it 100 percent at all times. At the end of the day when you look at something and can say “that was me, I made that” it allows for a sense of accomplishment unlike any other.

I really just wanted to say how much I appreciate the people who love and support my work, it means so much to me. I will continue to paint and sculpt as long as I possibly can, and I am looking forward to being able to share that with the people who supported me for a very long time.