He started off designing album covers and he got a record label, while studying fine art, but then he decided to to graphics and illustrating. He does commissions so that he doesn't have to work in a factory.
He likes to do graffiti and make music. He graffiti's some of his work on boarded up houses and derelict places. He also did comic book illustrations, such as 'Zebra Face'.
He likes to listen to peoples conversations and illustrate them. He did this and then made it into a book.
Kid Acne got asked to do flyers for clubs, to help promote the club or a specific night at the club. This was also pre facebook days.
He has designed for Levi's, working around europe to do this.
He was interested in fantasy art, and also photography. He has learnt a lot of techniques using a camera and editing. He dtill draws by hand, he hasnt learnt to use a designer or illustrator. He prefers to draw by hand and then scan them.
He has had his work made into books several times. Another occasion was to promote his work. He likes to paint in the street. He did some graffitti paintings in Barcelona, he likes to do it there because you dont get arrested for it, as it is legal there. This led him to design paint cans fromt the people he got the paint from for the paintings he did there.
He designed t-shirts for Prada too. He says they wanted a lot of control over the content and they had a clear idea of what they wanted included. Smaller companies let him work more freely and let him draw what he wanted.
He designed jumpers for his friends, using his own ideas and characters. These were then shown in a fashion show, and exhibited in a gallery.
He said he thinks it is important that he does his own personal work alongside the commissioned work he does. He hasn't had to chase work, he always gets asked to do it.
He has been influenced to do his work by a Photographer called Helmut Newton, who loved to take photographs of naked ladies.
He did a book cover which was then asked to be made into a toy. For this, he has to provide drawings to then be sculpted and made into the toys. They were presented in a mysterious box, so you didnt know which one you would get, and people could collect all of the characters, although there was more of some characters than others.
Kid Acne collaborated with a photographer, who asked him to draw something over his photographs. This was shown in Paris and an Art Director asked him to do the same thing to some other photos.
Then he went on to make an animation of his comic, 'Zebra Face'.
He gets permission to do graffitti by asking people who own the land or buildings, rather than the council. He used to take samples of drawings/paintings with his so they know it isn't a joke, and they know what he would be drawing/painting.
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