In 2011–2012, online art communities launched challenges where artists had to draw complex scenes from memory without erasing. This directly originated from Kim’s live drawing videos filmed in 2011.
This was the year his reputation for "Live Drawing" began to explode globally via the internet. The sketchbook captures the artist in a state of flow, serving as a bridge between his commercial work and his pure, uninhibited creative impulse. It documents the period where his technical mastery merged perfectly with his imaginative peak. kim jung-gi 2011 sketch collection
Kim uses parallel hatching and cross-hatching not just for shading, but to denote material properties: but to denote material properties: