We were lucky to catch up with Asa Lecourbier recently and have shared our conversation below.

Asa, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Do you wish you had waited to pursue your creative career or do you wish you had started sooner?

I’ve been drawing since I was five and started taking it serious at fifteen. I wish I was more consistent in my earlier years but its irrelevant to what I’m doing now.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Asa Lecourbier. I’m from New Orleans and since the age of five I’ve been challenging my creative mind. I started out by drawing my favorite childhood cartoon characters, taking things apart and putting them back together, creating origami paper guns, imitating Michael Jackson, Spiderman, and many other of my childhood heroes. As a kid, my mom moved us around a lot, so me experiencing different cultures and environments . It built me into the renaissance man I am today. My main focus and the thing I’m most passionate about is my artwork.In high school I was doing an acrylic painting series of my favorite celebrities who have had an influence on me from Lil Wayne & B.G to Dorothy Dandridge, and Robert Plant. I won some awards, worked at The High Museum of Art, sold prints of my art, and even did a few gallery shows. Now ,I’m in college in Chicago, pursuing an Illustration degree, focusing on my portfolio, and making future plans. I’ve always had an interest in fashion, I remember being poor for a while in school and kids would tease me about not having the things that were in fashion, so I made a promise to myself that when I started to make some real money I would be the best dressed in the room. Now when I walk down the street I have random people peeping and asking me what I am wearing, they complement me, call me handsome, suggest I should model, and on two separate occasions these photographers asked if they could take my picture. I humbly agreed.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

Non-creative people generally don’t like to break rules and refrain from thinking big. As a creative person when I put in effort to make something aesthetically pleasing and different from the norm, Non-creative people may get easily offended or scornful. I welcome non creative people to be less fearful of thinking big and to break a few rules, because at the end of day you only got one life to live.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The most rewarding aspect of being an artist for me is to get my vision out on canvas or paper. The gratification that you give to others who view your work is pretty satisfying too.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: asalecourbier
• Youtube: asalecourbier

Image Credits
Asa Lecourbier, Martori Bailey, and Allah