00:00I draw everything that I sell. Those pictures, once they're scanned, I then put them onto
00:09different products such as coasters, kitchen boards, cheese boards, jigsaws.
00:14I used to have a collie dog, which is why a lot of the pictures will have collies in,
00:21but I'm an animal lover. That transposes into the humour side where I think a lot
00:27of people think animals are dumb, shall we say, and I look on the lines of, we are just
00:35as dumb as they are, or they are as clever as we are, whichever way you want to look at it.
00:39And you'll see that a lot of animals are outsmarting what we class as either the human elements or
00:48the things where we think they're cleverer than these animals, and you just put on a level
00:53pegging of, well, they're all as clever as each other, and they've been going for a long
00:57while before we came into this world, so they're still developing.
01:05As a little boy, my dad used to come home from work, and they would buy both myself and my older
01:11brother comics, and they would be the likes of the Dandy Beano type comics, so they were proper
01:16little comics with little cartoon characters in, and basically that's where it's come from,
01:22a lot of that idea, and when I went to school, my art teachers saw the humorous and the creative side
01:31in my art lessons, so it allowed me to do what it would be classed as the cartoon imagery.
01:37Then from there, I just, just carried on doing it.
01:40I work from home. I used to have a shop in the studio, but no wonder I have that.
01:46And basically work in the front room to do my pictures, and I'm just standing up,
01:51so I don't need a lot of room around me, and that's where I work from normally.
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