Regular readers will have seen that i always blog the drawings and illustrations artists send to me, and i’m never ceased to be impressed by how much talent is out there and flattered that these artists feel inspired by my photos.

This cartoon-esque piece is sick, i love my purple hair, dunno if it would work out so nice in real life however!

The designer has done loads of other illustrations of celebs like Amber Rose too, this one below is mighty pretty.

Illustration by graphic designer Matthew Mtq Clayton, check out his portfolio!

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Before the holidays Matthew Hay created a very special Alexander McQueen tribute illustration for LCMS for all of us to enjoy. Due to being a techno-idiot I haven’t managed to upload it for you all to view. So I suggest you go and check it out on his blog. http://www.matthewhayart.blogspot.com/

However I have managed to track him down for chat to give you an insight into the life and mind of this talented illustrator.

Enjoy (I’ve started with the easy reading…)

What are you studying?

BA Illustration at Camberwell

What’s your favourite place in London?

Mile End Skate Park

Favourite illustrator or artist?

Ed Templeton or Mark Gonzales

If you could illustrate anything in the world what would it be?

Something to do with Wayne’s World I reckon, maybe a zine or a graphic novel.

If you could work with anyone, from any field, dead or alive, who would it be?

Ghandi (laughs) I think it probably would be Ed Templeton, perhaps do an exhibition of drawing and photographs.

What do you do when you’re not hard at work?

Well I draw as much as I can but otherwise I just waste my time skateboarding and on Facebook.

What would you say the biggest crime against illustration is?

It’s just that it’s become ephemeral and people consider it like throw away art essentially, it hasn’t really got much space in galleries.

What would you say your biggest achievement is?

In terms of my illustrations, it would be getting into Camberwell.

Would you describe yourself as less common or more sense?

I would like to say I’m more sense but I think I’m less common

And onto the rest…

How long have you been doing illustrations for?

I guess I first got into illustration on my foundation course, so almost two years now. We had to pick pathways on my foundation and the tutor was a really awesome dude and really encouraging, and apart from anything it was one of the only things I was interested in.  I’ve never done a painting or anything so it made sense for me to do something that incorporated more drawing.

What made you decide to study it as a degree?

Well at first I was torn between fashion illustration and textile design but I’m not, how do I word this, I’m good at working to a short deadlines, I’m not very good at setting myself work. I like the pressure more than anything.

Do you have a plan of what you want to do after uni?

I’ve got a few things going on. Ideally I’d like to a Masters but I’m definitely going to stay living in London. Whether or not that’s getting a job that doesn’t involve illustration but just draw all the time anyway but hopefully  I’ll have a job that will and making zines and stuff.

So what inspires your work the most?

I would say skateboarding. It might not be obvious in terms of the things I draw but the people that I’ve met through skateboarding and all the things that now influence me are because of skateboarding.

How long have you been skateboarding for?

Nine years now.

What’s your next big project about?

I’m currently working on an animation about the scientist Marie Curie. It’s an autobiographical piece about her, and so that will be online in the next month or so.

Want to tell us about Fresh Prints?

Fresh Prints is a project that myself and a few other people on my course are doing. It’s basically to start raising money for our third year final show. So theoretically by the time we’re third year, instead of rushing around trying to make loads of money and have all the stress from our work in the third year we should be able to be easy sailing.

What kind of thing are you thinking for your final show?

It’s going to be a big external show, we all want to produce small publications to go along with it, I think. So hopefully we can get a really good venue, like a really big venue, perhaps even a prestigious one if we can, so the more money we can get now the better. So it’s me and a few other people and it’s starting off as a club night which will hopefully turn into a relatively frequent thing; a small venue at first, like the Amersham then onto bigger venues eventually. We want to perhaps set up zine fairs and stuff like that in the future, but for now it’s just the club night.

Do you have any advice for your fellow illustrators?

Just try everything would be my advice, when I was doing my A Levels I would never have thought  I’d be doing illustration, I didn’t even know I wanted to do any sort of artistic degree. So, from trying everything, all the different pathways on my foundation I then realised that, guys especially, they can do textiles, and they can do fashion and they can do anything they want. Yeah, just try everything.

 Fresh Prints. Tuesday 18th May. Amersham Arms, New Cross. £3 entry. 9pm – 2am.

Illustration by Rachel Sheppard

Hi there, Im a student at LCF on foundation.

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Illustration and Design by Lin Diniz.

… and now with fingers!

Lin Diniz is an illustrator and designer from são paulo, Brasil.

Illustration by Mizaru.

‘Float’
Pencil, pastel and paint.

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Fashion Illustration by Elizabeth Sanchez.

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Illustration by Kato.

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Illustration by Francisca Veloso.

Just to say how I love your magazine.
Please have a look at my work, Id love to help and collaborate somehow.
I am a graphic student at LCC.

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Miss Pandora, drawn by Anna W.

Hey! I love pigeons & peacocks (and hope I will some day be able to contribute to the lovely print magazine myself). This illustration shows the adorable fashion blogger Miss Pandora.

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