FREEHAND
NAME: ‘SMUGZ’
LOCATION: MIGH TY MANAWATU
OCCUPATION: SELF-EMPLOYED ARTIST
CONTACT: FACEBOOK — KUSTOM AUTO ART BY SMUGZ
NZ Performance Car: Hi, Smugz. Readers will recognize your name from the rotary, burnout, and graffiti scenes, but what they might not have yet seen is your automotive art. Can you tell us how you got into drawing and when it all started?
Smugz: Hey, NZPC. Hmm, I guess it all started in the early ’80s when I was five-ish and did my first mural — on our lounge wall. I found my mum’s eyeliner and thought it would be wicked to do a full-sized house, clouds, sun, etc. on the wall. When my mum came in, for some reason she was not impressed. I thought
