Interview with Raymond Lemstra

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Interview with Alex H Millar

How did you started as an artist?

It is difficult to say how I got started.  I have enjoyed drawing, painting and generally making things with my hands from a very young age.  It was always in my mind to pursue this interest in some form or another for the rest of my life and, having just graduated from The Glasgow School of Art, I have no regrets so far.

Do you have a regular creative process, or is it different every time?

I would say that the way I go about making ‘things’ is inherently chaotic, but that I understand it to be a symptom of the work, and not a problem.  I try to surround myself as much as possible with aesthetic possibilities: objects, images and materials that I have gathered intuitively. From this, things begin to gravitate towards each other to form works of art.  I intend this process to come through in an exhibition. 

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Interview with Diana Beltran Herrera

Hello, how are you?

Hi you. I’m just a curious girl living in such an amazing place full of things ready to be found by me.

How did you get started?

I started by coincidence. Since I was a child I saw my mom sewing and doing a lot of things, and so when I was bored I would play with her materials and create my own things. I have to say, I found a big pleasure making those things for me, more to go out to by them in the market. I remember I was a fan of clay and I had books that helped me as reference to draw, to model in 3D.

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Interview with D’Metrius Rice

How did you get started? 

I started drawing weird mutations of my toys cartoon characters in pencil, crayon and marker sometime around kindergarten or first grade.

Do you have a regular creative process?

My creative process generally consists of looking and storing information from my surroundings, internet, billboards, coupon junk mail, lottery scratch-off tickets, etc. That information resurfaces in abstract ways from a large reservoir in my head somewhere that i pull from and constantly recycle and recontextualize.

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Interview with Acido de Vainilla

Hello, how are you?

Hola! I’m fine, thinking in ionized dolphins

What influences do you have from childhood or from your teenage years?

When I was a kid I watched a lot of 80’s anime and played NES games all day. When I was a teen I found out about the Internet and learned to find hentai images of my favorite series, and a one good day I discovered how pretty Japanese porn covers were, not only because of the strong sexual charge they had (something very attractive for a teen), but because of the very thoughtful and interesting way it was put together. I never had a girlfriend up until 3 days ago, so it as the best way to kill time. I remember that my first experience with graphic design was in trying to create porn covers in Word.

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Interview with Emiliano Aranguren

How did you get begin drawing/making images? 

I have always needed to express myself through images. I learnt from different techniques because I like being open.

I consider myself a self-taught because I never studied any arts or type of design. My formal studies at university were devoted to Sociology because I’m interested in everything that has to do with humanity throughout history.

While I was studying, I was able to use design software which allowed me to share many things, so I started doing favors to underground bands that I liked. I did it for free, just for the pleasure of it. This practice became a regular habit until one day I was asked to show my stuff. Then I was asked to design a poster for a concert, or be part of a collaboration, etc. because they liked what I was doing.

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Interview with Benoît Bodhuin

What was the evolution or progress, from when you began to where you are now?

I followed a few art classes when I was at school, not too much but without much focus of interest either. After a university course in mathematics where I got a little bored, I then shifted to design and graphics. I was immediately fascinated by the possibilities offered by computer (Photoshop / Illustrators / Flash and later) for drawing. It’s strange that this new medium that led me to graphic design. Then this engine pushed me to explore other aspects of graphic design such as typography. For now I remain quite faithful to the use of computers in my work.

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Interview with Clay Hickson

Do you have a regular creative process, and if so what is it? Do you have a predetermined approach to your output or is it different every time?

It took a few years but I think I’ve finally established a fairly regular creative process. The most important part to me is recognizing the difference between productivity and faux-productivity. Often times I’ll have an idea for something and then I’ll spend hours doing “research” for it only to realize I haven’t actually done anything. The other day I needed to draw some slices of tomato so I started image searching tomatoes. 2 hours later, I had 3 photos of tomato slices and found myself reading an article on postmodernism and crowd-sourcing. I think it’s a common condition nowadays what with the Internet and all. So, at the very least, I try to draw a little bit everyday. It’s not always easy to do but I start to feel very stale if I go too long without doodling.

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Interview with Michael Lacey

Use words to draw me a picture: How did you get started and how did you end up here?

I drew a lot when I was really young, there was always a lot of pens and paper around the house and I was never that bothered about toys. I read a lot of comics. I think my Dad relished the opportunity to shape my brain by getting me into things. It sounds really pretentious but I remember him reading the play Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry to me and my Sister as kids and thinking it was the funniest thing ever. I also used to slavishly copy panels from Superman / Batman comics and learnt a lot from that about expressing the passage of time and telling a sequence of events in a single image. I gravitated towards things that came easily to me at school like Art and English. I find it harder to make work now, i set myself daunting and difficult tasks partially because stuff that appeals to me often seems to have been born out of frustration and concentrated, prolonged effort, and also because of a kind of guilt that I make pictures and stories instead of having a real, useful job.

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Interview with Vol.Kingdom

How did you get started? 



I think that if you start drawing at an early age, and i mean early like 3 to 4 years old…
it’s the sort of start of everything like the best possible stage for an artist to develop, Like omg my son drew a squiggly line he’s gonna be so
damn good at art, PRODIGY!!!

I would say alot of it has to do with the people around you from when you were younger till now pushing you to do 
something that maybe you thought half and half about at an early age but just had a inner feeling inside..like I’ve got to do this….

and i would have say i started making art and getting more interested in it properly when i was at school.

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