Ep27: Alister Lockhart, Illustrator & Digital Artist

Today my guest is Alister Lockhart, an Illustrator and Digital Artist. Since Alister’s work is highly visual, you might like to explore some of his artwork as we listen. You can find images and videos on his website: alisterlockhart.net (there’s link in the show notes. In this episode, we explore demons, goblins, and superheroes and capturing their form in illustrations and digital art. In our conversation, Alister shares thoughts on his generally open and responsive approach to employment within electronic games and associated fields, including roles as artist (for comics, trading cards and short films) and as art director (for electronic games), through to short film director, and teacher. Alister offers insights into some of his illustration techniques, which usually start with a rough sketch. Rather than focusing on simple physical attributes, Alister asks the fundamental questions of story telling, that is, the who, what, where, when, why and how? to explore a character’s background and story, vital to how they’ll come to life and become visually expressed for an audience. In our conversation, we also explore some straight-forward thoughts around job satisfaction and some of the more profound ideas related to one’s career, following your own path and living a creative life that fires your imagination. Links: https://www.alisterlockhart.net/galleries https://www.instagram.com/caveatscoti/ https://www.facebook.com/AlisterLockhartart https://www.eccomics.com/ Short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfK79Xblpus&t=9s&ab_channel=Omeleto