He Shoots, He Draws Podcast
by Alan Hess, Dave Clayton
Welcome to the He Shoots, He Draws Podcast, your go-to source for all things creativity, photography, graphic design, business, and life! Hosted by Dave Clayton and guest host Alan Hess, this show offers regular insights into these creative topics. Two friends—a graphic designer and a photographer—share their combined expertise and experiences to bring you engaging discussions. So, grab a cuppa and join us as we explore the things we admire, the people who inspire us, and much more. Expect straightforward, honest conversations with a touch of education and the occasional special guest!
Episodes
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Ep.184 3 Guys Walk Into A Podcast - Confessions of the podcasters!
Join us for a candid and insightful discussion as three seasoned photography podcasters— Dave Clayton (He Shoots, He Draws), Kersten Luts (Camera Shake podcast) and Steve Brazill (Behind the Shot) — we share our experiences, challenges, and triumphs in creating and maintaining our own design and...
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Ep.183 ESSARAITCH - Sharon Harrison Talks TikTok and Business
Join myself and owner of EssarAitch, Sharon Harrison, talking about putting your working life on TikTok and developing a following to help your business. Sharon posts her daily life in her office, the trials, tribulations, fun and feedback. Not many people are super natural on camera but she…
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Ep.182 James Barnard - 1 Year On - From TikTok to Adobe Max
James Barnard is back! One year on, exactly, we chat about how his world has changed so much since we first spoke, his TikTok and Instagram presence was flourishing but so much has happened in the past 12 months for him that I wanted to really do a recap with him and see how is world is today…
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Ep.181 Dave Blass (Pt.2)- Production Designer - Star Trek Picard & Music Photography
We are super honoured to have one of the industries top Production Designers, Dave Blass, as our guest for the next two episodes. Dave recently worked on Star Trek Picard, The Boys, Justified, Preacher and many more. In part two, Dave talks about his love of music photography as well as his…
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Ep.180 Dave Blass (Pt.1)- Production Designer - Star Trek Picard & A Career in TV
We are super honoured to have one of the industries top Production Designers, Dave Blass, as our guest for the next two episodes. Dave recently worked on Star Trek Picard, The Boys, Justified, Preacher and many more. Dave talks about our love of Star Trek, his path to where he is today and the...
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Ep.179 The Photoshop Creativity Summit with Dave Cross
Get your FREE Photoshop Creativity Summit ticket HERE In this catch up with industry leading trainer, Dave Cross, we chat about his new online conference and the evolution of events since the pandemic. An amazing 4 days of FREE creative training from world-class Photoshop experts and artists 26...
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Ep.178 Mental Health & Creativity with Radim Malinic
Get your FREE Photoshop Creativity Summit ticket HERE In this episode I had a very frank and honest conversation with our guest Radim Malinic about working through mental health and trying to remain creative and undistracted by the social world around us. Radio is a creative director and designer...
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Ep.177 2022 Round up & Get Your Shit Together for 2023
Dave Clayton and Alan Hess are back for 2023! In this first episode of 2023 they have a quick catchup of the events of 2022, what they've been up to since the last episode and talk about getting your shit together for 2023, taxes, plans, schemes and events!! The Print Design Summit Registration -...
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Ep.176 Liz Mosley - Running A Successful Business
This week I am so pleased to have Liz Mosley on the show, Liz runs a very successful branding business but also teaches, creates content for Adobe, runs a very good podcast and more. We chat about all the things that make up what running a creative business requires these days to maintain…
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Ep.175 Dave & Glyn - The Photography Show Round up & More
We're back! This episode is Dave Clayton and Glyn Dewis having a good old chinwag and catch up from The Photography Show, recorded on 18th September 2022. We talk about the show and just what we've each been up to and the usual Dave/Glyn conversation you can expect! This episode is in support of…
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Ep.174 REPLAY // Chase Jarvis - Photography Show Special
We are leading up the The Photography Show 17-20 September so here is a replay episode of one of the Super Stage guests, Chase Jarvis. Chase is an award-winning artist, entrepreneur and the Founder of CreativeLive and now author of his new book Creative Calling. We chatted with Chase about the...
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Ep.173 REPLAY // Tony Harmer - A Life in Graphic Design via Adobe
We are leading up the The Photography Show 17-20 September so here is a replay episode of one of the Editing Suite guests, Tony Harmer. I am genuinely thrilled to have Tony as our guest this week, Tony is one of my dearest friends, one of the most helpful and genuine people in this industry, he's…
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Ep.172 REPLAY // Elise Swopes - Creativity, Growth & Photography
Please enjoy this replay episode from 2020 with the wonderful Elise Swopes. This week's guest is a delightful young photographer, speaker, influencer and hard working creative powerhouse, New York based Elise Swopes. Elise has taken mobile creativity to a whole new place, having built a name for...
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Ep.171 REPLAY // Kaylee Greer - Photography Show Special
We are leading up the The Photography Show 17-20 September so here is a replay episode of one of the Super Stage guests, amazing dog photographer, the one they want to be and she's setting the standard, Kaylee Greer. Kaylee is a dear friend and we've done many conferences together, she will also…
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Ep.170 Mark Hirons - Changing Your Life For Your Dreams
In this episode I talk to graphic designer and friend of the show, Mark Hirons. Mark created Creative Waffle Podcast way back in his teenage years, he's only 24 now, and we chat about how he built his empire and then walked away from it to pursue his career dreams. We chat about how that was for...
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Ep. 169 James Barnard - Making TikTok Work For You
This week I am joined by James Barnard of Barnard.co, a very talented logo and brand designer from the UK but based in Australia. I first saw James on TikTok and followed him immediately, he's doing everything I think a creative should be doing on the platform, so I asked him all about it and his...
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Ep.168 Debbie Clapper - Pursuing A Passion & Making A Career
This week I am joined by my good, and fast friend, Debbie Clapper. I met Debbie at Creative South, introduced by recent show guest and mutual good friend, diane gibbs. Debbie has a background in graphic design but pivoted her career and pursued her passion into traditional hand drawn art, which…
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Ep.167 Dave, Alan & Glyn - Talking Computer Gear - The Stuff We Love!
This week we are talking office gear. All three of us use our gear in different ways, between video, photography and design. We discuss what gear we love, why we love it, how we use it and what would we add if we could. We discuss Macs, keyboards, tablets, software, audio and what happens when...
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Ep.166 Diane Gibbs - Making Friends & Creating Opportunities
We welcome the lovely diane gibbs to the show this week, host of creatives ignite podcast and the only person I know who can connect people like a super power! We first met at Creative South conference and been great friends ever since. When you’ve listened, please go and say hi to diane and…
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Ep.165 The Camara Shake Interviews - Double Episode
This week we have the lovely chaps from the Camera Shake Podcast joining us, hosts Nick and Kersten popped in for a chat about all things podcasting, careers and covid. And also, please go and check out their episode #102 where they have our very own Alan Hess as their guest this week - so you…
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Ep.164 Oh No. My Mac. It's Broken
We're back. Again. Damn working schedules. This week we talk about the woes of computers breaking and how to get back working again. In this instance, Apple MacBooks and more! Plus a little round up of what's been going on in our lives and why we're crap at keeping a regular podcast schedule at…
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Ep.163 Dave & Alan's Round Up of 2021 (Part Two)
In this 2 parter, Dave and Alan review 2021, previous guests, gear, books, software, experiences and more! We'll be back with lots more in 2022. Links: PhotoMechanic Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 (Amazon) Adobe Premiere Elements 2022 (Amazon) Adobe Photoshop + Lightroom 12 month subscription...
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Ep.162 Dave & Alan's Round Up of 2021 (Part One)
In this 2 parter, Dave and Alan review 2021, previous guests, gear, books, software, experiences and more! We'll be back with lots more in 2022. Links: PhotoMechanic Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 (Amazon) Adobe Premiere Elements 2022 (Amazon) Adobe Photoshop + Lightroom 12 month subscription...
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Ep.161 (Short Episode 8 mins) Join Us LIVE on Wisdom App Weds 15th Dec
As part of our plan to enhance and improve the podcast, we are testing out a LIVE chat app called Wisdom, made for podcasters. This Wednesday 15th December 12:30 Pacific / 3:330pm East Coast / 8:3pm UK please join us for a live episode where you can join in. Link in show notes below....
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Ep.160 Back In Business - Dave & Alan LIVE in San Diego!
Well, it's been a little while, September actually, but we are back in business after a much needed and enforced break. And we come back in style, we actually got to record in the same room, at Alan's house in San Diego. This is a catch up episode, talking about what we've been up to and what's...
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Ep.159 Michael Bruny-Groth | Logo Package Express
In this week's episode we speak to the founder of Logo Package Express, Michael Bruny-Groth. Michael is a graphic designer himself and we chat about his background and how he got to the point where making a product, an illustrator plugin to speed up the process of preparing a logo package to…
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Ep.158 Glyn Dewis Returns - 1 podcast, 3 Hosts, 16 Months
In an episode that was like three versions of Doctor Who appearing in the same episode, we welcome back the co-originator and previous ex co-host of the podcast, Glyn Dewis, to chat about his world over the past 16 months, how he's used photography to keep sane during a house move and a pandemic....
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Ep.157 Scott Fuller - The Studio Temporary - A Career in Graphic Design
This week's guest is a designer I became aware of a few years ago and met him at Creative South Conference. Scott has carved a career in graphic design and education over recent years and has now estabished Studio Temporary as one of the leading design agencies in the design community. Scott is...
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Ep.156 Joe McNally Returns - Surviving A Pandemic - A Year In The Life of Joe McNally
Please welcome back, for the third time and the first guest to do so, our dear friend Joe McNally. Joe very kindly made time to chat about his last 12 months, hunkering down during the pandemic and finding ways to keep busy, sane and still working. Whenever you speak to Joe you can learn so much,...
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Ep.155 Brad Moore - Catching Breaks, Working Hard, Making Friends!
This week we are joined by our good friend Brad Moore, a commercial photographer and videographer based out of Nashville. Brad started young in the industry, his first two employers being Joe McNally and Scott Kelby no less. Brad really is one of the nicest guys in the industry, no big ego, just...
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Ep.154 Donald Page - A Life in Photography - Shooting the NFL
This week we are joined by Donald Page, the official Tennessee Titans chief photographer. We chat about the path to getting a huge role like that, the friends you make along the way and how to keep going through a pandemic in a football season. We both know Donald through KelbyOne and our next...
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Ep.153 Bryan O'Neil Hughes - A Life in Photography, Fast Cars, Marathons and Adobe!
We are back with an esteemed guest, Mr Bryan O'Neil Hughes, Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach at Adobe. Both Alan and myself have bumped into Bryan at many events over the past 10 years but this was the first time we all got to just chat. Bryan has spent 22 years at Adobe and we...
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Ep.152 The Lightroom Queen - All Things Lightroom and more!
We have "Royalty" in the He Shoots, He Draws house! Welcome Victoria Bampton to the show, we've known Victoria since 2008 and this was the first time we actually spoke and what a joy it was to chat to her about her career as 'The Lightroom Queen' and her career in photography, but not as a...
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Ep.151 Tony Harmer - A Life in Graphic Design via Adobe
I am genuinely thrilled to have Tony Harmer, AKA The Design Ninja, as our guest this week. Tony is one of our dearest friends, one of the most helpful and genuine people in this industry, he's a walking encyclopaedia of design knowledge and for the next 90 mins we just chat about design, life and...
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Ep.150 The 150th Episode - So Far, So Good!
Way back in Feb 2018 He Shoots, He Draws was born. It started as a weekly podcast and in those 159 weeks, it’s published 150 episodes so the plan is kind of working. The show has been graced with some amazing guests, over 100 5 star reviews left on iTunes and a very loyal following listener base…
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Ep.149 Kladi from PrintMySoul / How To Get On In Business...F**** Up, Eat Sh** and Smile!
This week our guest is the wonderful Kladi from PrintMySoul Studio. We chat about how the path to a career, let alone any kind of success, is paved with a lot of honest f*** ups, eating sh** and smiling while all that happens. Taking crappy jobs, taking chances and never giving up - something…
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Ep.148 Scott Diussa - Disney, Nikon, Tether Tools and Rock And Roll
This weeks guest is our friend Scott Diussa, this guy has seriously been around the block, if that block is the coolest properties on a Monopoly board. From Disney, to Nikon to Tether Tools and a whole load of rock and roll in-between, Scott has experienced more in his career than a lot of people...
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Ep.147 Khara Plicanic - Carving A Creative Career In Design And Education
One of the best parts of having a podcast is getting to know good friends even better, in this instance our guest is someone we both admire and respect and have learnt from. Khara Plicanic is a self proclaimed 'Design Geek & Photoshop Nerd' but she's so much more than that, she's built a business...
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Ep.146 Adam Elmakias - Building A Brand In Music Photography
Welcome back to the first episode of 2021 and we kick off with our good friend and top music photographer, Adam Elmakias. We first met Adam at Photoshop World about 9 years ago, already establishing himself as a music photographer he went on to carve out a truly unique career, touring with bands,...
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Ep.145 Dave & Alan - Highs & Goodbyes to 2020
It's the final episode of 2020 - thank you for sticking with us! We have a quick round up of our 2020, our highlights, recommendations and things to look forward to in 2021. We hope you've enjoyed the podcast, we're enjoying recording, we have some great guests coming in 2021! Stay safe and Happy...
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Ep.144 Bryan Bedell - Field Notes Brand, Design and more!
This is the penultimate episode of 2020 and what better way than to end it with someone who has become a friend over the past year and also works for one of my favourite brands, Field Notes, Mr Bryan Bedell. Based out of Chicago, Field Notes brand have been going for about 14 years but Bryan has...
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Ep.143 Paul Shipper - Pt.2 Catching up with Paul - The Life of Richard Amsel
As part 2 of the The Richard Amsel interview, I spoke with UK illustrator and previous guest of HSHD, Paul Shipper to discuss his experience and influence of Richard Amsel, helping Adam McDaniel with the documentary and also to see what Paul has been up to during lockdown. Paul's website Paul's...
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Ep.142 Adam McDaniel - Pt.1 The Life of Richard Amsel - Movie Poster Legend
This week's podcast is an epic two parter! In the first I speak to Adam McDaniel, an artist himself who is also deep into a project honouring and documenting the life of movie poster artist Richard Amsel who sadly died in 1985 at the young age of 37. Richard, alongside Drew Struzan and John…
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Ep.141 The High Road Design - Making A Living From Drawing
This week's episode was someone whose work I admire and he was recommended by a friend. Meet Jon Kutt AKA The High Road Design, an amazing artist who now specialises in Illustrator and Procreate. We chat about how the latest technology can be embraced to become a better and more flexible…
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Ep.140 Kaylee Greer - Dog Photography and Personal Goals
I first met this week's guest, amazing Dog Photographer Kaylee Greer, at Photoshop World, we were both newbie instructors. Kaylee is one of the most hard working and dedicated professionals in her specialist field. She's often imitated and you can see why, her style is unique and her reason for...
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Ep.139 Elise Swopes - Creativity, Growth and Mobile Photography
This week's guest is a delightful young photographer, speaker, influencer and hard working creative powerhouse, New York based Elise Swopes. Elise has taken mobile creativity to a whole new place, having built a name for herself through hard work and persistence, we chat to Elise about her...
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E.138 FREE PHOTOSHOP EVENT - NOV 9-13 2020 - PHOTOSHOP VIRTUAL SUMMIT
In this special mini episode I talk to fellow Photoshop expert and creator of the Photoshop Virtual Summit >> bit.ly/DCSUMMITVIP , Dave Cross, who tells us all about his FREE event starting Mon 9 November thru Friday 13th November. The event is completely FREE FOR 48HRS, 20 instructors including...
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Ep.137 Dan Mumford: A Year In The Life Of A Photoshop Illustrator
THE PHOTOSHOP VIRTUAL SUMMIT - NOV 9-13 2020 FREE TICKETS AND VIP TICKETS HERE Dan Mumford Please join us for a chat with UK based Photoshop illustrator, Dan Mumford. Dan is a renowned artist and he's worked with the biggest movie franchises and the biggest bands, and continues to do so. I had a...
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Ep.136 Adobe Max 2020 RoundUp with Dave and Alan
In this extended episode both Dave and Alan talk about their Adobe Max experience, from an an instructor's viewpoint and both as attendees. We talk about our favourite bits, talks to watch, a couple of nuggets we learned, and overall we absolutely loved it. Given the circumstances Adobe did an...
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Ep.135 The Return of Jesús Ramirez - Success on TikTok, YouTube and More
We welcome back THE best Photoshop instructor on YouTube, Mr Jesús Ramirez from The Photoshop Training Channel. This is the second time we've had him on the show, we discuss more about how Jesús has been able to adopt TikTok as a platform to gain more eyes on his content and how he manages his...
About this show
Welcome to the He Shoots, He Draws Podcast, your go-to source for all things creativity, photography, graphic design, business, and life! Hosted by Dave Clayton and guest host Alan Hess, this show offers regular insights into these creative topics. Two friends—a graphic designer and a photographer—share their combined expertise and experiences to bring you engaging discussions. So, grab a cuppa and join us as we explore the things we admire, the people who inspire us, and much more. Expect straightforward, honest conversations with a touch of education and the occasional special guest!
Hosted by
Alan Hess, Dave Clayton