Rough Sketch Podcast

This month we bring you a chat with comic book author and fellow podcaster Samuel George London . We met Sam at True Believers (2020) and invested in his Milford Green comic books. It's amazing that Sam had never even written a major fictional story until he wrote Milford Green. He did so with the help of a structure laid out by Dan Harmon called the Story Circle and drawn by ace Finnish artist Mi...

Another month is upon us and we are still in lockdown, we hope you are all well. This episode was recorded at the beginning of March. Elliot and Kay collectively known as Arthole joined us after a full day at the Bristol art fair Shake . We fed them and plied them with tea to find out more about their own art fair, style, interests, influences and whatnot. Of course, we also made them roll some di...

Welcome to our April episode where most of the world seems to be in some sort of lockdown (including the UK). We hope that you are well and employing some sort of social distancing. We had this interview with Matt Emeny already recorded and obviously, we want to bring it to you so that you can check out his work. Matt makes his own theatre productions, acts and would love to direct his own movies....

We took a trip in early Feb to Cheltenham to check out True Believers Comic Festival . There we caught up with a multi-talented creative CB. We first bumped into CB at Cardiff comic con and we were compelled to have them on the Podcast as soon as we could. It took a while to set up but we got there in the end. CB has produced two awesome comics; ThirteeN, the adult erotic demon zine about a former...

Welcome to Episode 17 where we talk to storyboard artist Jamie Iles. If the surname sounds a little familiar it's because we spoke to his wife almost 1 year ago Sophie Iles . It was so nice to finally sit down with Jamie and have a chat about his work. We feel that storyboard artists are a very under-appreciated breed of people, they can add so much to a project. Jamie talks about his love of stor...

Happy new year from both of us. We had recorded a whole episode with the amazing Katy Shutte but due to technical difficulties, we don't have any of that audio. We will say that if you have the chance to check out any of Katy's work then please do so. We would like to also thank the Bristol Improv Theatre for giving us space and time to record with Katy. We will fix the technical issues and have a...

Welcome to probably the last episode for the year where we chat to the multi-talented Dan Emmerson . First a quick advert for our recording space which was donated to us by Desklodge . Desklodge is a hotdesk and office rental space that have two locations in Bristol and one in Basingstoke. You can pay by the hour for just £3 per hour and £20 (ex. VAT) for a whole day. For more pricing take a look...

Welcome to our first bonus episode where we talk to Jamie Frew who is the designer of a card game called The Old Hellfire Club .   We were supposed to have a full episode with Jamie and did chat to him for over an hour but due to an operator error we only actually recorded the second half of the chat. We didn't want our listeners to miss out on what we did manage to record so we decided to re...

Welcome to part two of our bumper 14th episode for November with Sarah Millman . If you have not already listened to Part 1 of this then we would advise you to go and do that. In this section we get Sarah rolling a whole bunch of dice in which she gets what is known in D&D as a critical fail! Nothing is a critical fail in our book, not even Chris's poorly drawn horselike creature. From this ch...

Welcome to part one our bumper 14th episode for November with Sarah Millman . Sarah is a writer and artist that we found at Cardiff MCM . It was because her comic involved tea which Chris drinks a lot of and because our initial chat with her just felt so natural we really wanted to get her in for a chat and we are so glad she said yes. We had to split this into two parts because there was just so...

It's our thirteenth episode and in October... oooh, spooky. We are honoured to have the wonderful improviser and sketch comedy performer/writer Ros Beeson join us. As much as this might sound like clickbait you would not believe what ends up being rolled by the dice when we get to it. Seriously we did NOT plan this. Ros is a great performer and we had no idea before we spoke to her that she had re...

This month we get spooky a little early with the talents of  Gwdihoo (aka Goody Who) . She is an awesome creative who has just become an art fair dad with the SUMMER SCREAM event. There is space in the world for spooky art fairs and so she set up the  Ghoul Gang Collective  along with her buddy  Fruit & Bone . We get Goody to tell us what goes into having a tattoo apprentic...

Welcome to episode 11 where we feature a chat with fantastic artist Rory Walker. Rory is a fun and creative person and is currently back doing freelance work so if you know of anyone who can use his talents then lease pass on his details to them. In the episode, we explore Rory's dalliance with Dungeons and Dragons and his blatant disregard for units of measurement. Don't forget to go and take a l...

This is part two of our two-part chat with artist Harry Jones. Here is where we roll the dice and make something up. See what we make out of the Dinosaur & Robot genres. We dig a bit into why Harry finds taking photos is incredibly helpful for him to use as reference material. Chris struggles trying to draw a tar pit and gives some dinosaurs some weird legs and Nathan shows us how robot aliens...

This is part one of our two-part chat with artist Harry Jones. Harry is a painter who enjoys making beautifully intricate pieces of art and has recently finished his third year at the University of West England (UWE). These pieces usually take quite a bit of time to finish and we chat about the process of creating such a piece and how recently the university lecturers have been trying to encourage...

We have the pleasure of chatting with Howard, Joe and Ferg who collectively call themselves Thunderchair for Episode 9. We begin by chatting about their new comic book launch event for Hyper Galactic Rockstar Champion: Royal Rumble. They have an interesting history of really long title names for their comic books. We talk about how they all met, what their influences are and there is a lot of sill...

Rhiannon Kagoe joins us for episode 8 to talk about her comic books. She intends to try and release at least one comic a year. She talks about how drawing is some form of self-help therapy for her and how she finds it easier to come up with ideas when she is sad rather than happy. We also touch upon the tricky fact that people are currently choosing not to vaccinate their children. Consider this a...

Welcome to part 2 of our chat with one of the Directors of Upfest , Stephen Hayles. If you have not listened to part 1 then please go listen to that as well. In this section we roll the dice, draw some things and chat some more with Stephen about his job history. There is a bit of swearing in this section so do be warned about that. Once again we need to thank Stephen for coming onto the Podcast a...

Our second episode for May and we have the pleasure of chatting to Stephen Hayles who is one of the directors of Upfest the biggest urban paint festival in Europe. We have split this episode into two parts because it was a long a chat and wanted to bring you as much content as we possibly could. In the first part he takes us through what it's like to have a crazy dream come true and now be respons...

Here we are again with episode 6 chatting to Rachel Hall. Rachel is an awesome illustrator who is hugely influenced by Sailor Jerry style tattoo art. We chat to her about her style, influences and recent attendance at the Shake Art event . Sadly we had a bit of an issue with the audio this episode but we have done as much as we can with it. Remember to send us your artwork based on our suggestions...

For the next few episodes we are releasing twice a month! In this episode we chat with Jess Tkls who is the lady behind CityAnimalz . Jess creates these amazing stylized creatures and sells her work on a stall near St Nicks Market in Bristol but you can buy them online . In our chat we find out that she is creating a whole world for them to frolic in. We really enjoyed meeting Jess and can't thank...

In our fourth episode we talk to amazing illustrator and street artist Sam Walsh aka Kid Crayon . In which, he talks about the awesome time that he had in Mexico at the Akumal Arts Festival and other festivals like Ibug in Germany. He finds out about such festivals mostly via word of mouth but there is the I Support Street Art website that you can go to. You can check out Kid Crayon' Podcast Can C...

Welcome to Episode #3 with Artist, Illustrator and Designer Cai Burton. We talk about the confusion with names at coffee shops and how he distracted other students while he was in school with his doodles. Then we dive into his article for Bristol 24/7 , working with youth in the Arnolfini and his love of Manga. Chris introduces Cai to the Senseless Things with early artwork by Jamie Hewlett before...

Here we are with Episode #2 with illustrator, author and Doctor Who fan artist Sophie Iles . Sophie talks about her time in University, her love of Doctor Who and the trouble with canon. During the episode, we mention the film The Florida Project , the mythical Japanese Kappa and an episode of Drawfee where they d raw D&D monsters . To save you some trouble we have listed all of Sophie's links...

Introducing the Rough Sketch Podcast Our pilot episode where we go over our intentions of the podcast and how we want it to work out and try our hand at rolling Rory's Story Cubes . In it, we mention that our drawings will be held under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) license. This episode was recorded over several sessions which explains th...