Author interview: Meet KenSHinH

There’s only a few days left to pick up this month’s Free File of the Month! This month, we interview free file author KenSHinH! KenSHinH’s a fantastic member of the community with top sales and a popular series of packs and textures. Read on to find out more about this talented designer, grab the Free File of the Month for November…and don’t forget to check out his portfolio!

1. Tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living?

I’m 21 years old, I live in Cartagena – Colombia enjoying the beautiful beaches,  that is the only place where I really can clear my mind and get far away from troubles and stress…I’m a Technologist in systems, AS3 Developer and currently finishing my career in Systems Engineering. I Work with a group of colleagues in websites developed in 100% flash and I can assure that our work is the best. We give our best effort to ensure that everything is perfect.

2. How long have you been designing and what made you start selling items on GraphicRiver?

Well, I’m not a graphic designer, but as I said I love everything that has to do with design, I have been working with photoshop for 4 years and still I have to learn a lot. Long ago, I wanted to go to ThemeForest, but my time is very limited (it is among my goals). I can assure you that the best way to learn is by being persistent.

3.  Do you create files from scratch for GraphicRiver, or do you re-use work that you’ve created for a client?

Yes, all my works are 100% created from scratch, work undertaken as a freelancer are never used to sell here, because I think it would be unfair with the original customer.

4.  Where do you get your inspiration from for your GraphicRiver work?

Well I can say that my inspiration comes from my tastes and what catches my attention, for example: my file Nebula Stars Backgrounds comes from one of the areas that I love, space, from childhood I wanted to learn more about what is outside this planet and know what is  beyond …

I will not deny that this is one of my favorite files and I put very much effort on it.

5. What is your work flow like when starting a new file? Could you walk us through the steps you take when getting ready to create a new file?

To create a new file I must be free of stress, it is irritating when someone annoy at the moment.

So the first thing I do is open my music player and drop-style rock songs, electronica, salsa, and some ballads. Right now what I like to hear are the songs of a group named “Elefante” and another group named “Hipnosis” the latter is a group of my city.

Currently working with two computers one at my home and one at the office

My Equipement in House

SO Windows XP  Service Pack 2

CPU DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 4200+

Motherboard MSI K9N Platinum (MS-7250)

Memory OCZ 2048 MB

Monitor LCD Monitors VH226H 21.5”

VideoCard MSI NX7600 GS (NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS)

My Equipement in the office

SO Mac OS x 10.5.8

Monitor 22”

CPU 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory 1 GB DDR2

My  Next Equipement in December

VideoCard EVGA GeForce GTX 275 FTW Edition 896MB

Monitor LG W2353V-PF Black 23″ 2ms(GTG)

Memory OCZ Obsidian 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3

Motherboard MSI X58 Eclipse

CPU Intel Core i7

6.   What do you do to market and brand your files?

For the moment all I can do is: promote my files on facebook, and twitter. I also take the opportunities offered by Envato for example: bundle birthday, I made enough sales then and now as a free archive of the month I hope to do many more  Envato, thanks!

7.   What advice can you give to authors that might help them increase their overall sales?

The best thing to do is: create your files with the best, do a job because you really like and because it gives you joy to know that people like what you do. It bothers me when some files are copied from other authors just because the original file is selling like hotcakes, you must be original, we must be innovative.

8.   Besides yourself, who is your favorite GraphicRiver author?

Well, I have some favorite authors but I prefer goTo! and epicera work, I really think that these two authors have style and originality.

9.  Which file do you think is your best file so far?

The best selling file in my portfolio is Mega Pack Magazine  Mock-Up is a complete package of mock-ups for magazines, very smart and very well worked.

Soon I will upload another package of mock-ups with new style named Mega Pack Mock-Up # 2, culminating this month.

Later I will work harder on designing web pages in CSS.

10.  What one thing would you like to change about GraphicRiver if you could?

Honestly, the redesign I found amazing, there are still some bugs but I imagine it will be eventually corrected, the only thing that would change to GraphicRiver is the time delay on recent files, my files sometimes lasted just a few hours in recent and because it does not give the opportunity for all buyers to see.

11.  When you aren’t creating graphic files, what do you do for fun?

When I’m not making files available for GraphicRiver, I’m working at the company, ha ha ha! But in the little free time, I’m watching movies, or watching TV series. I like going out on weekends also eat hot dogs, hamburgers or pizza. I think because of the beer and hot dogs I’ve been getting fatter, I was going to get to the gym soon.

12.  Would you like to give a sneak peek or some information about the latest file you are currently working on to our readers?

This month finishing my mock-ups with this work, I hope you like it. Here I leave a small sample of how it will be my next file.