We asked Gary, our Special Selection prize winner with his "Nature and Technology" tee design, about his work and where he gets his inspiration. Gary has submitted the largest number of designs to Allmightys. A  great variety and his style is always evident...lots of detail, colour and richness.

Enjoy..



What inspires you Gary?
I get inspired, when I watch movies and animations with great video effects and have social relevance. People around me also inspire me a lot.

Who are you favorite artists and why?
I have lots of favorite artists, some of the notable names are Escher- I like his impossible figures, and optical illusions, Rembrandt- his style in playing with light and shadow is great, and Alex Ross who changed the comic industry with his stunning realistic drawings.

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
My artworks start from concept sketches in my head, then draw what I imagine using pen and ink. While drawing, I just let my imagination draw continuously, I use pen because when I make mistake, I don’t erase it, instead I make it into another design. I also use Adobe  Illustrator in making vector designs, and Adobe Photoshop in making graphic designs. Flash is what I use in making animations and also in making vector drawings.



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
I regularly visit gaming websites like gamespot (www.gamespot.com/) where I get updates on latest games. I also visit The FWA: Favourite Website Awards (thefwa.com/) where there are lots of good web designs. I get my inspirations from everything around me, including people, events, nature and other stuff.

What do you do when you are not designing?
When I’m not designing, I play PC games and Nintendo DS. I also get inspirations and ideas from the games I play.



Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
Yeah! Allmightys make my brains wheedle out artistic designs that make me a better designer. :) I also learn from the tips on forum discussions like color halftone filter that makes doing graphic design easy.

Anything else you would like to add?
Today, with lots of graphic softwares available, making graphic design is easier.

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You can read more about Gary by visiting his profile.
To purchase "Nature and Technology" by Gary visit the product page.
To see all of Gary's submissions, go here.

Continuing our mini interviews, this week we bring you Simon Clark aka SiClark.
Simon is an amaizing UK based illustrator/animator with some trully wonderful and unique style to his work. Make sure you also check out his website for more examples and wonderful animations.
SiClark won Special Selection in our "Mother Nature" competition back in April 2007 with his unique "Bad Planet" submission.



What inspires you Simon?

This is always a hard question to answer, mainly because I find it hard to articulate how I get inspiration. For lack of a better term it just comes to me. It can come from watching a film, hearing a certain piece of music or seeing a colour combination on a random building, any small thing like that will start the cogs in my mind and out comes an idea. I'm obsessed with trees, buildings and texture. This is because I grew up in the country and now live in London and find it impossible to do simple things as I always get fixated with detail.

Who are you favourite artists and why?

In terms of fine art I would have to say the Chapman Brothers as a lot of their work seems quite obsessive which I can relate to and most importantly, it makes me laugh whenever I go to one of their exhibitions. With regards to illustration I have a lot of artists that I admire but my mind is more visually orientated so I'm useless at remembering names. Tom Gauld and Sam Webber stick in my mind though.



How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?

Pretty much everything in my work is created by hand and made seperately. All these elements are then whacked into Photoshop and arranged and ocassionally coloured. I always use pen and ink and then use any kind of material to get the effect or texture that I am after.

What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?

I don't really use the web for inspiration I'm afraid.



What do you do when you are not designing?

I'm obsessed with my work so when I'm not creating anything I'm usually thinking about what I'm going to do next. I spend most of my free time going to gigs.

Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?

I've only done one t-shirt design for Allmightys so I can't really make that claim, if I did more then I'm sure it would help.

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Visit SiClark's website for more information and work: www.si-clark.co.uk

You can read more about SiClark by visiting his profile.
To purchase "Bad Planet" by SiClark visit the product page.

Brian is an artist from Bandung City, in west Java, Indonesia. His wonderful design "Mother Vomit Earth" was selected as a Special Selection back in April 2007 from the Mother Nature competition.



We asked Brian a few questions recently...we hope you enjoy this mini interview.

What inspires you Brian?
Many things, my God's life, my life, my wife, my soon to be born son, all sorts of music, all sorts of things that happen (specially in Indonesia, it's a weird but very challenging environment here...), Other peoples works, artists around me.



Who are you favourite artists and why?
Internationally i love baseman, jarvis, jeremyville, phuek, kidrobot, phunk and the list go on. Nationally i love that 4 guys from mode-four, oink! illustration and many more...

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
I usually use computers, but the first things is always a sketch on paper, and afterwards it could end up on digital print, canvases, wood or plain papers.

What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
fotografer.net, deviantart.com, vinylabuse and loads and loads of browsing...even don't remember it all. And of course flickr.com .

What do you do when you are not designing?
I'm kinda running a ministry at my church, but it is also an art and design division. So besides designing I design haha. Usual kinna stuff is on my daily program too lah. Like go to movies, eating and blablabla...



Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
First of all, allmightys introduced me to contests like designing. so it's a start for me. And you what, when i search my name on google, my name pops up, and it's from your site hahahaha.

Anything else you would like to add?
Love arts like you love yourself. And it will produce many good things on your life. Don't forget to search 'breeanzz' at flickr. Many thanks to you guys at almightys. See ya soon.

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You can read more about Brian by visiting his profile.
To purchase "Mother Vomit" by Brian visit the product page.