Figurative drawing. With special guest co-host Adam Whitaker. Nat’s collection of art ‘An Untamed Line’ is currently exhibited on Chelmsford Museum’s Gallery Wall. She makes a rough shape on paper with water and then inks in the figure. How does life drawing online differ from drawing from a photo? And how short time limits lead to the best art? Sixty second drawings have a lot of energy. Ink never behaves the same way, so the art can be unpredictable. Imposter syndrome in art and judging your own output. Life drawing tips. Moving your eye as little as possible between the model and the paper. Learning anatomy at Oxford Ruskin. Drawing skeletons. Are plastic skeletons cheaper than real skeletons? Drawing dead human bodies in the medical school. GRUNDON BINS! You might hear more about these… Lucky dip in the Grundon looking for body parts. Exams wearing robes at Oxford drawing skeletons and muscle groups. Deciding to study art, and realising that it is what you want to do as a career. Constant development and improvement in style and ability. What do life models think about while they are posing? Talking about Body Worlds and donating your body to art or science. Can you create your own education and pick your own tutors? Natalie teaches figurative drawing and has a studio in Hyland’s House in Chelmsford. Tips for drawing faces. Winning a skeleton. We need a name for Nat’s skeleton! Making a living as an artist is tough, Natalie also has to do graphic design and illustration to earn money.

Nat's website
Artists at the Meadows
Nat on Instagram
An Untamed Line at Chelmsford Museum

Are You Creative? recorded by Adam from Lawker Media at City Sound
Edited by Nick Hearne
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Owner of Lionbeat, a company that advocates for bass culture and black music. Jean-Claude was born and raised in Brentwood. Bass culture happened when the sound systems from the Caribbean travelled to Europe and eventually African diasporic culture. Bringing people together with a uniform love for bass. People immigrated to Britain and brought over sound system culture - Bass and dance was a ritualistic behaviour for these people. Peace, love and unity in the dance.

Lionbeat is the ‘barristers for bass’.

Jean-Claude initially went to university to study law, and wanted to move as far as possible from the culture at home to grow and study. In Hull there was a black box nightclub called The Room, he got exposed drum and bass legends and met other DJs around the university. They started to put events on together. Learning law helped advocating for bass culture. Using his position to be able to build trust between the community and the establishment for creativity. The importance of seeing people like you in culture making culture. Knowledge is power, and knowing how the power system works. How it is hard to get into the mainstream power structure when you are different. How do you own yourself and present yourself in situations. Working in the city, spending earnings wisely - ‘Some people like to play golf, i like to put on parties!’ How to program a line up at a night to get people in, and to give up and coming artists a platform. Economic capital, social capital, cultural capital and symbolic capital. Being militant with your diligence. Be fully committed to anything you care about. How community music events teach young people how to be creative in events, music, production.

Lionbeat sound system event at Somerset House in London featuring Lionpulse sound system, the most beautiful sound system in the world. Combined with the Black Unity Bike Ride, black community cycle event with 2000 cyclists, including Jean-Claude’s mobile soundsystem bike. Lionbeat’s bass culture production arm is called BASSIS (Bass And Sound System Institute Streaming). Aiming towards an institute grade building for bass culture in the UK.

Jaiden tags in as guest co-host to ask some questions. We find out about the Unity Bike Ride - BCCS - Black Cyclists Changemaker Solidarity. A ride to take alms to the homeless, new sleeping mats, warm jackets, water etc.

Jean-Claude created a mobile sound system on his cargo bike. Taking the music to the people. He even cycled the sound system to Haarlem in The Netherlands.

Jean-Claude has been working with Hard Art - a study in community led activism and putting collaboration before competition. Producing a night for sound system culture in Manchester.

https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/residents/lionbeat
https://www.instagram.com/lionbeat/

Are You Creative? recorded by Nick at City Sound
Edited by Nick Hearne
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Creative director for advertising and entertainment. Elliot is 1000% creative! Why do younger people not like advertising as a creative career? People are paying to avoid adverts, and using ad blockers. People are watching telly in a different way now - no longer are people sitting at the same time to watch the same scheduled show. Elliot loved the Benetton adverts when he was younger, and how it played with culture and broke the mould. Oliver Toscani was the creative director and photographer behind these adverts. Elliot was inspired by music and art, raving, parties, putting on events, making flyers, learning graphic design by mistake. Creativity in advertising is solving problems for brands. Experimenting with photocopiers. Elliot’s friend wanted to be a photographer and his focus on career inspired him - he tagged along. How rave taught Elliot sequencing, design, sampling, video etc. with a new wave of software and culture. Elliot is helping the next generation of creatives with the Platform program he established, and through the SCA Creative Mastery course he has co-authored. Making creative jobs available to more people than it traditionally had been. The importance of paid placements and reaching the right people for placements. The SCA Creative Mastery is a creative course run mostly on virtual reality headsets to make it available to all people, geography and travel are no longer a barrier to people to learn. Big up Marc Lewis from SCA who runs the course and Meta who provide the headsets. Using the Apprenticeship Levy to fund it. People learn in a different way in virtual environments than real life, it has been proven to be better for being locked in and not distracted. Do you have to move or work in a city to accelerate your creative career? Winning advertising awards. Cannes Lion chat. Ads that get made and get made well are like sperm fertilising an egg - they are the lucky ones out of thousands of ideas. Building a house is like building an idea. Making adverts is a lifetime of hope - always believing you’ll make something remarkable - and always putting the love into every project. Chatting about Jaguar’s new advert and the impact and reactions. Vying for people’s attention is harder than ever. Ads getting shouty! Brands need to have a sure sense of what their personality is - then execute against that - loads of small ideas with the same body language. In advertising you have to become an expert in random things to understand your clients’ products. Be around interesting people and interesting things will happen! Elliot’s first ad job was at D&Ad logging award entries, and by osmosis he saw the world’s best creative work. Being at D&Ad exposed Elliot to the award juries, and showed them his portfolio, which they gave brutal opinions about. The considerations in managing a creative department. Pull people up and bring people with you. Modern creatives need to be commercial savvy now. Obsess about your client’s problem as much as your solution. Also, Nick LOVES Liquid Death - send us water!

SCA Creative Mastery
Havas Platform

Are You Creative? recorded by Nick at City Sound
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