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What about now? What keeps you inspired? Do you read books? Do people inspire you? Is it your friends around you? Drugs? What is it that keeps you going? I think it’s a bit of everything. Sometimes I just catch myself looking at specific colors or color schemes or whatever, but it hasn’t always been like that. Back when I was more into the comic thing, I was always looking to make something very black and white, but now I’m searching for color schemes and outside things to work from. It’s a constant development. Sometimes you just find crazy things on the Internet and six months later you catch yourself doing your own version of it or something completely different that has its origin with that first image.
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Do you like taking things that don’t have an anatomical structure, like the Spongebob you did, and creating their inner workings from scratch? Yeah. It’s definitely very fun for me. I get to look at something completely fictional and try to figure out how that body would really work for those cartoons.
Where does beer and metal fit into all of this? The beer thing actually isn’t a huge part of it, but there is one video where my crew members visited me for my birthday and we made this event called Drink and Draw, so for four days we just got wasted and produced some stuff, which was a lot of fun. You guys are big Iron Maiden fans? I am, yeah. Does metal influence your work at all? Yeah, it definitely does. There’s a lot of humor in the music. Heavy metal is so much based on humor… It’s kind of provocative at first but in the end it’s just funny. It just makes me laugh, and I think it has something to do with my approach to art as well. My work is gloomy at times but on the other side it also has humor, and I think that’s where it just comes together. I find that’s very important because I think many artists take themselves too seriously. People take themselves too seriously. It loses the fun when you try to be too serious.