He Shoots, He Draws Podcast

What can I say about this week's guest that you don't already know! We are joined by the powerhouse of creativity that is Mr Russell Preston Brown - Adobe Royalty, legend, myth, inventor and more. It was a pleasure to have Russell as our guest and we spoke a lot about mobile photography, shooting personal projects with a mobile phone, strobes and some experimentation. Russell is a creative leader...

Episode Notes This week we are honoured to have the wonderful Julieanne Kost. Julieanne is not only an Adobe Worldwide Principal Evangelist  but also a very creative and talented photographer, author and instructor. She is one of my most favourite people to spend time with at events and her work is constantly outstanding as a photographer. She truly is award winning in every sense, Julieanne is on...

Episode Notes This week we are joined by the Photoshop and Photography education powerhouse that is Mr Aaron Nace, the founder of online training platform PHLEARN. This was the first time we’d ever spoken to Aaron and he immediately felt like an old friend. We talk about the future of online education and innovation. This really was a great episode and a top interview. https://phlearn.com https://...

While in Orlando for a conference I got to visit a dear friend, Nick Sambrato, owner of the legendary letterpress and silkscreen shop, Mama’s Sauce, based in North Orlando. Nick’s been running Mama’s Sauce for 12 years now and I wanted to catch up and talk about how he’s built the company that the best designers want to be associated with. We also discuss how to separate work from home life, learn...

Going it alone when you believe in your abilities is always a risk. We speak to Matt Kloskowski, formerly of KelbyOne and OnOne, and now founder of Matt Kloskowski Photography and Training. He specializes in outdoor, landscape, and nature photography along with editing with Photoshop, Lightroom, and ON1 apps. Matt was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2014 and is the best-selling author...

First released Nov 22nd 2018 Episode Notes This week we to chat to an incredibly talented young lady at the peak of her career in the Hollywood movie and TV poster industry. Lisa Carney has worked on hundreds of well know movie and TV posters you'd all recognise. Lisa tells us how she came to be in this industry and how she is now a leader and mentor for women in the industry. Lisa is an incredibl...

This week's guest is a friend, a mentor, a colleague and more. Scott Kelby has influenced my career more than anybody and this episode is two mates catching up, talking about what we've been up to, personal projects, the past, present and future, books, tv and a good few laughs in-between. Due to audio problems, this is the Zoom recording only so please excuse any bumps along the way.  Please chec...

This week's guest is Meredith Payne Stotzner, a 20+ year member of the Photoshop team at Adobe and currently the Product Manager (Photoshop & Digital Imaging). We get to see Meredith at Adobe Max and Photoshop World and chat all things Photoshop but we've never really got to know her background. So we chat about Meredith's path to Adobe and how our creative world has evolved as well as her role. T...

This week's guest is Los Angeles based Music Photographer Dustin Jack. Dustin is a fellow Photoshop World Alumni, twice winner of a Photoshop Guru award, a fellow concert photographer friend of my cohost Alan Hess and a damn nice bloke who works hard to achieve his successes. And he's worn Elvis Presley's suit. There's cool and there's Dustin! We chat about his career, starting out as an auction i...

This week's guest, thanks to cohost Alan Hess, is Las Vegas based corporate event, concert and portrait photographer, Brian Friedman. Even if you don't know the name, you'll know his work. He's one of the hardest working photographers in the music business, shooting for iHeart Radio. Brian only started professionally in 2005 and he's come a long way, getting to shoot a US President and multiple le...

Continuing with our interviews with the Adobe Evangelist team, we bring you the latest recruit, Howard Pinsky. Howard joined Adobe as a Senior XD Evangelist and is is responsible for sharing his UI/UX knowledge and experience with the design community through video, live streams, and at creative events, with a focus on the Adobe XD application. Howard began his career teaching Photoshop on YouTube...

What can I say about this week's guest other than he is genuinely one of the nicest men in the. industry. Mr Ant Pruitt, originally from South Carolina and now living in the Bay Area, Nth California, has worked hard and carved himself a career in tech and photography, finding himself working TWiT TV and their podcast. Ant has become a voice of authority on many subjects and brings a warmth and smi...

This is strong and powerful stuff. I haven't edited out any swear words so please don't listen around little ears. Join myself and co-host Alan Hess in welcoming week's guest, Washington based businessman, photographer, filmmaker and a hardworking, inspiring man, Douglas Sonders. I first met Douglas in 2013 at Photoshop World. Douglas's career has been a constant stream of hardwork, creative think...

Every week you hear the intro to the show and that voice is David McClelland, a friend of the show and also accomplished, experienced journalist and tech expert for tv, press and live events. We talk about how David ended up in a career in tech and how has his knowledge and experience helped him adapt to a COVID lockdown in his career, working from home and broadcasting from his spare room to cont...

This week's guest is the youngest I have had on the show, he's a designer who also created and hosts the Creative Waffle Podcast. Mark Hirons is 22 and has already tried, achieved and failed more things in his career than most designers have even 10 years older than him. I met Mark back in 2018 and we've become good friends, we chat often and I am always impressed by how he continues to grow and l...

Ten years ago I met this week's guest, Artist/Designer/Photographer/Educator Theresa Jackson, at 2010 Photoshop World Las Vegas, along with my co-host Alan Hess. Theresa was the first attendee I met, we connected straight away and have remained good friends for 10 years. All three of us have shared similar experiences and growth since that first Photoshop World, each of us finding our own career p...

What can I say about my guest today that hasn't been said before. Aaron has become an inspiring design to many with a fierce work ethic and stellar set of life morals. Aaron is know worldwide and I am proud to call him a friend as well as a colleague. I got to visit Aaron at his Portland home in October 2018. I wanted a different "Draplin Interview", so we sat and talked one of our favourite subje...

My guest this week is a fellow designer and podcaster, Nick Longo. We first met at Adobe Max 2017 and I was a listener of his podcast, Deeply Graphic Design. Nick is a man who wears many hats and wears them well. Designer, brand specialist, instructor, mentor, podcaster and business owner. We talk about the balance of all those responsibilities and the thing about branding that makes us both fasci...

What can I say about this week's guest, Katrin Eismann is widely respected and has an awesome  career. She is is an internationally respected artist, educator, and author specializing in creative digital photography and the impact of emerging technologies upon professional photographers, artists, and educators. We chatted about her new role at Adobe, life with Lightroom, photography, life in lockd...

Dave and guest cohost, Alan Hess,  are joined by a good friend and fellow Photoshop World instructor, Kristina Sherk. Kristina is one of the leading beauty retouchers and instructors, under the name of SharkPixel, as well as running a successful headshot business and is a working mum of two small children. Life is a juggling act and we talk about how to fit it all in, learning, teaching and sellin...

When I first started my job at Astute Graphics I began listening to Adventures in Design Podcast of which my guest Billy Baumann of Delicious Design League was the cofounder. I liked the cut of his jib - he's a great designer, business owner, teacher, podcaster and a friend. And now I get to finally interview him about the life of a designer and how it's more than just design. Join myself and Bill...

This week, Dave and Alan Hess interview an old friend, Daniel J Gregory. They met Dan through KelbyOne where he was teaching fine art, print and photography. Dan has such a positive thought process on the work he creates, he also teaches and mentors others. This episode was full of great advice from start to finish. Dan Website Perceptive Photographer Website Dan on Twitter Dan on Instagram Dan on...

This week it's all about photography and Lightroom. I am joined by my co-host for this week, Alan Hess, as we chat to THE Lightroom guy, Rob Sylvan. It's a long episode but it was just three guys chatting about all things photography, life, teaching, writing and more. Rob gave some great tips about shooting for stock photography too. Well worth a listen!  Just a quick note, occasionally we have a...

This week Dave is joined by a dynamic duo, the much loved couple, Doc Reed (iamreedicus) and his lovely wife, Julie. Doc is known throughout the design community but not so many know of Julie's photography work until they partnered up recently for a session on the CanceledCon online conference. Julie's background is experimental photography techniques and between them they run a household with fou...

It's a 'Dave' solo episode, something we rarely do. In this week's show Dave recommends some things to do during this time where we have to stay in and stay safe. But at the same time we can use this opportunity to improve ourselves and the things we are connected too. There's recommendations of tv shows, books, podcasts, DVDs, online learning and more. Let's support each other, share information...