Has there been anything you thought was great but just couldn't tackle? He reckons he could take Goldie on in a hoover race any day. His Dad found it all pretty funny apparently.īrian Blessed posted about it on Facebook too. He also asked me to paint a picture of him looking disappointedly at the picture whilst various celebrities pointed and laughed at him. Goldie’s son, Danny, messaged me saying that people kept asking if he’d seen my painting. Goldie’s son messaged you saying people keep taking the piss about his Dad riding a hoover? They are racing on the Mario kart level Rainbow Road and are both drunk on White Ace cider. Is it true that after your now classic submissionīrian Blessed riding a Henry hoover alongside D’n’B DJ Goldie on a Dyson.

Quite often it’s the simpler suggestions that get the best response Or at the very least would result in a funny, visually striking Paint. The main criteria is that I have to think it’s funny. Occasionally I’ll attempt a more complex one – such as the Frasier one or the Vanessa Feltz one – partly to challenge myself but also to mix things up. But it’s become much harder to actually choose which suggestions I should paint. The actual painting side of things has definitely become a lot easier over time. Has it become easier over the years or are you taking on more complex submissions to challenge yourself? You’re time lapse video showing the evolution of the image, Monty Python performing a motorcycle pyramid for God who is disinterestedly playing Candy Crush on his phone shows how obsessively detailed your work is. I guess this is because every time someone posted a request (which was almost constantly) all of their friends would see it and be like ‘hmmm. It really started to snowball when it hit Facebook. Like I said, I was already getting a steady stream of requests while my Tumblr was doing the rounds on various forums. How did you start gaining fans and submissions? I spend a lot of time adding necessary detail.

The suggestions are a lot more complex and so is my technique.

I started off doing them in my lunch hour. I do the background last in its own file and then paste the characters in at the end.ĭear Jim, Please paint me a guinea pig version of Burt Reynolds on a sun lounger being served drinks by Hulk Hogan wearing only the top half of a tuxedo. Once I have the framework sketched out I use simple fill colours and then do the shading. This is obviously more fun when painting things like “a guinea pig that looks like Burt Reynolds” as I have to use my imagination a little more. I keep that in an open window while I paint, adapting it wherever necessary. For celebrities I’ll find an image on Google that might roughly fit the bill. Once you zoom in enough it’s easy anyway.Ĭan you take me through your process of working on a piece? Instead of thinking about gradients and vector paths I get to concentrate on what I think might be funny. I used Photoshop professionally for many years and by contrast I find the simplicity of Paint to be extremely liberating. I’ve never thought of it as being a restriction. I was already getting lots of requests on Tumblr by the time I set up the Facebook page. After about a week or so I wanted to share some of the better ones on various forums such as So I set up a Tumblr and went from there. I started off drawing pictures for my friends on Facebook during my lunch breaks. How did the idea for the page come about? Then after about 10 years of that I gave up and started making visual stuff again. I guess I thought I was going to be the next Aphex Twin or something. I stopped in my teens and started making electronic music instead. That sounds rubbish, doesn't it? But it’s genuinely true. I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember.

I spoke with Jim to find out how all this all came about, what it’s like having people send you weird concepts all day, and why Ainsley Harriott is the son of God.

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