Something a little bit different today, but I hope you all enjoy none the less 🙂 I thought I would do a featured artist post and introduce you to Tim, the kind chap who made me my very own Audrey II, a la Little Shop Of Horrors…
Hello Tim. Thank you for taking the time to have a wee chat with me today, and for designing my awesome new header! You mentioned to me previously that you have not always done illustration. How did you get into it?
Hello there, and you’re welcome! I’ve only really been trying to coax people out of their money by drawing things since the start of this year! Previously I’d done graphic design among various other things, but had only thought about illustrating recently when someone commented that they liked something I was doodling. I definitely haven’t had any training in it, so it’s a steep learning curve with lots of dangerous slippery bits.
What are your likes and dislikes about your job/illustrating in general?
Money. If I didn’t have to make money out of it, then everything would be a lot more fun. Then again, it’s a nice feeling when someone is willing to hand over their hard earned gold for something you’ve made!
Where do you develop most of your inspiration from?
My entirely tangential thought process! I have a lot of very strange ideas floating around in my brain, and sometimes they make a pleasing image in my imagination, so I write them down. I often just stick ideas together from brain maps I make, which ends up creating something quite weird but interesting, I hope!
I noticed that you like Typography, Monsters and Nike Dunk’s. What are your other favourite things?
Girls. I like girls. They’re much better than boys. I love colours, although weirdly my favourite colour is grey. I have a thing for documentaries, and a rather geeky interest in spelling and grammar. I also like shirts, sneakers, nice patterns, plastic things, stickers, and toys. Oh, and all the normal stuff like movies, music, food, and alcohol. Although I hate the taste of coffee, and I don’t use Macs. Take that, design stereotypers!
Did you listen to the Little Shop Of Horrors musical soundtrack on full blast while drawing my banner?
That’s a good question! Thanks to the unorthodox way in which my brain works, I didn’t even think of doing that, so I drew it while watching a documentary! Oops.
Where can we find you and your lovely works on the good old interweb?
The best ways are through my website (iamassault.com), Twitter (twitter.com/iamassault), Facebook (facebook.com/iamaslt) or Flickr (flickr.com/iamassault). Don’t be scared to say hi!
Thanks to Tim again for his super wee interview, and finally giving my blog the most suited header it’s ever had! I really like Tim’s work, it is all a bit strange, quirky and colourful. As a Scenic Artist by trade, I do appreciate ‘art’… but to be honest there is a lot of it which I just don’t understand, and often feel a bit out the loop for not ‘getting it’ (more so for contemporary pieces) I think its pretty safe to say I just enjoy a rather appealing looking picture, produced with whatever medium 🙂 Especially awesome illustrations like all of the above. Y’know what I mean?
If you do have a favourite artist, please link me in the comments because I’m always on the look out for inspiration, and pretty pictures to awe at. A wee update too, the Piggies are still away being treated, miss them dearly 🙁 Will find out this week if they need to be separated, just want to get the whole situation sorted as soon as possible. At the weekend David took me to Wagamama for lunch on Saturday to cheer me up, and we did a spot of shopping afterwards (including my first ever Nars purchase) but more to follow on that soon. Yesterday I got to meet up with Gem, who was in Edinburgh for her birthday! 🙂 This girl is even more awesome in real life, and it was wonderful to finally meet her and her lovely boyfriend Dale. I took a few pictures on our wee afternoon out, which I will be sure to share soon.
I start my new job today, my second major Art Director role on a prime time saturday night quiz show for the BBC. Going to be working for the next 13 days straight, so the blog posts might not be as frequent as normal (but lets face it, when am I even really very frequent?) but I shall try. Expect the return of the home baking twitpics though, now that I’m back at the beeb the gorging of their awesome cupcakes from the canteen shall again commence!
Lots of love ♥
Ayden x
15 Comments
Georgie Lowen
AMAZING illustrations!!
Georgie
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May 23, 2011 at 9:18 amSophie (Little Mittens.)
these are so awesome!! have fun on the new job and fingers crossed for your little piggies!! xx
May 23, 2011 at 11:09 amRaffles Bizarre
Fantastic work, I'm loving his illustrations so much I went straight off to his Twitter and FB! I love posts like this as I always enjoy seeing the work of other creatives!
If you like quirky illustrations you should definately check out my cousin's website which is all about an otter… 😉 http://www.iamotter.co.uk/ make sure you check out the gallery etc, his work never ceases to amaze me.
Hope the piggies are better soon! There's been too many sick animals at the moment amongst my peeps for my liking 🙁 I'm sure your lil fluffbuckets will be just fine and home for cuddles soon!!
May 23, 2011 at 11:53 amAnonymous
1. Congratulations on the new job!
May 23, 2011 at 1:47 pm2. Eeee, I want to meet Gem and a whole bunch of the awesome girls (like you!) on blogger one day.
3. Thank you for featuring Tim. I've never seen his work before this, but it is definitely so strange and quirky and really inspirational. I'm a very traditional artist and find myself very inspired by the more modern art/illustration.
4. xoxo
Anonymous
Amazing illustrations indeed. I have always been into graphic design, and my sister is an artist so I feel very connected to it. But, I am also more focused on how attractive the drawing looks then really the artistic point of view. I really hope your piggies are ok 🙂
May 23, 2011 at 3:04 pmxx
FromGemWithLove
He's good eh, although I wish I could see the rude on you told me about hahaha. Miss you already xxx
May 23, 2011 at 5:32 pmStefany
Great interview! I love hearing about artists, they're so inspiring with such unique visions of the world. I really like the first picture, really cute.
One of my fave artists/illustrators has to be Tabitha Emma who did my blog design. I thinks she's amazingly talented. Also Tim Burton is another huge favourite of mine! His sketches are awesome.
Huge congrats on your new job, wow!! What you do sounds so interesting 🙂 Good luck xx
May 23, 2011 at 8:04 pmVictoria
Hi Ayden! Firstly you are very welcome for the previous comment, but I can't believe it's the nicest one you've ever recieved!Thank you for the lovely comment on my little blogeroo too!
Tim's work is awesome, I particularly like the one with the coloured pencils and there's one with bendy straws on his website that I love.
Sorry to hear about the poor little piggies, but fingers crossed they'll be able to stay together once everything settles down xxx
p.s That new job sounds amazing! x
May 24, 2011 at 8:55 amWinny.
wow these are brilliant! I LOVE IT
May 24, 2011 at 9:38 amCherry
Really interesting post and the illustrations are awesome! Good luck with your new job!
May 24, 2011 at 12:40 pmBLahblah Abi
good luck on your new job! your mates work is awesome! particularly like the first one in the bottle 🙂
May 24, 2011 at 9:55 pmnice blog x
Ivonne
Wow, all of his work is so fantastic! My favorite one is the one with the zombie biting its finger off. Looks very interesting!
It's so cool that he got to design you blog header (which looks incredible!)
I just read about your piggies 🙁 I really do wish they get much better soon, Ayden! I know it must be heartbreaking seeing knowing they are sick. Let's hope for the best for them!!!
Hope things at your new job go well!
x, I
May 25, 2011 at 2:20 amAnonymous
Just want to quickly say, really love this blog and loved it even more when I read back to a post from Jan where you had been very honest about how you have the same ups and downs as every other girl etc. Up until that post I had felt a tinge of sadness and thought "Wow, this little lady has the perfect life. I wish I was this happy" and while you clearly are so happy and lovely it was just so refreshing to read. so thankyou for being so real x
May 25, 2011 at 11:49 amAyden
Hey Anon above. Thanks for your comment, really appreciate it. My life has the same ups and downs, heartbreaks and dysfunctional things going on just as much as the next person. I think I know what post you read in Jan, where I go into that kind of thing quite heavily. So I won't here, since you've already read what I think about that kinda stuff 🙂 One quality I do pride myself in is that if I feel the need to moan about a situation, then equally I will have the determination to do something about it. You can be assured that everything you read on here is 100% me, and thank you so much for reading and taking the time to comment on how you feel. Normally when I see 'anon' I shit a brick but yours was a relief! 🙂
Anyways, I'll stop gabbing now, but yeah also thank you to the rest of you girls who have commented on Tim's awesome work, and asking how the piggies are getting on! 🙁 Will be back with an update soon ♥
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