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cover artist – interview

Olly Howe 4

Olly Howe is an illustrator form the UK. His client list spans the

globe and his work can frequently be found in magazines such

as Advanced Photoshop and Computer Arts. He agreed to tell us

about what is important in the profession of a digital artist.

photomanipulation

The Journey

Holly Pacheco

Editor’s Choice

Gallery of Robb Castaneda 40

beauty retouch

Beauty is Photoshop

Ylenia Peronti

The Paradise

Sophie Van Dycke

Underwater

Roberto Gamito

creative class

Above the clouds

Odessa Ombregriffe

Dearest Readers!

I have a great pleasure to introduce myself to you as the new Editor in Chief of our .psd

Photoshop magazine. I’m very excited to continue the great work and I count on your

help. Please wish me good luck!

interview

Interview with Justin Maller 28

In this issue, apar t from the interesting tutorials on photomanipulation, photo retouch

and digital painting by Ylenia Peronti, Holly Pacheco and Timur E. Kiryashov, you will

find the inter view with our cover ar tist, Olly Howe and with a freelance illustrator Jus-

tin Maller. They have told us a bit about their profession and shared some of the great

works they created.

workshop

Create Stunning Backgrounds

for your Fantasy Art

Tigz Rice

digital painting

Keeper of the Universe

Timur E. Kiryashov

All this (and much more!) you will find in the June issue of .psd Photoshop. Enjoy!

Magdalena Mojska

magdalena.mojska@psdmag.org

Editor in Chief

interview

Olly Howe

Olly Howe is an Illustrator from

the UK. His client list spans the

globe and his work can frequently

be found in magazines such

as Advanced Photoshop and

Computer Arts. Olly sells limited

edition prints and pillows through

www.clickforart.com. For more of

Ollys work checkout his website:

www.4playgraphix.com.

Tell us your story. How did you become a designer and

illustrator?

I didn’t really choose to become a digital artist as such, I just kind

of fell into it. I started a course at University which I hated and so

quit, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so I enrolled on a Graphic

Design course at the local art college. I had no idea what Graphic

Design was but it sounded interesting. The rest, as they say, is

history. I didn’t really learn that much about contemporary illus-

tration at college as every project was geared towards cooperate

branding but the good thing that I did learn was how to use Pho-

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Interview with

interview with olly howe

toshop. Ever since my introduc-

tion to the program, I knew that it

is what I wanted to do, I just loved

the freedom of it and the fact that

you could create one image from

multiple photos. At the time I didn’t

even know that this was called il-

lustration. I studied in a town called

Plymouth and I had a lot of friends

that were DJ’s or that put on club

nights, this gave me an easy route

into the world of club lyer design.

Designing lyers was great as it

meant I could get my work all over

the place without having to do

a lot. After 4 years in Plymouth and

building my portfolio, I decided to

move to London. This was really the

only option for me if I was to make

it as an illustrator. However, it did

not happen over night. For 5 years

in London I worked a 9 - 5 cooper-

ate design job and then did my own

freelance work in the evenings un-

til about midnight everyday. This

was a very hard period but it was

the only way I could live and do the

work I wanted to do, I just wasn’t

earning enough money from the

freelance work. After 5 years though

I had built up enough clients to take

the step to fully freelance and have

now been working on my own from

home for just over a year.

What do you like about your

profession? Tell us about its

advantages and disadvantages.

There are clear advantages and dis-

advantages of being freelance. One

big disadvantage is that sometimes

you may have a month where you

don’t do as much work as you nor-

mally would and so inancially you

have to be prepared for this. How-

ever, not just being paid at the end of

the month like in a salary job is a big

advantage as it helps to maintain

a constant cash low. I remember

when I had a salary job, the last week

of the month I would always be pen-

niless. Another disadvantage is that

you have to keep all your own ac-

counts although this is fairly straight

forward as long as you keep every-

thing up to date regularly.

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